JP2005007452A - Controlling method for temperature of steel tube in equalizer - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controlling method for the temperature of a steel tube in an equalizer, by which the soaking of a tube stock to be conducted before stretch-reducing-rolling the stock is conducted more excellently than conventional one when stretch-reducing-rolling the tube stock obtained after a steel strip is formed into a tubular shape and the seamed part thereof is bonded by welding, pressure junction, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: The method is provided to improve a technique, wherein, after a steel tube is formed into a tubular shape and both of abutted end parts thereof in the width direction are bonded, the obtained tube stock is reheated by being passed through an equalizer equipped with a plurality of induction coils arranged in series, and then is stretch-reducing-rolled by a stretch reducer. The outline of the method is as follows: the surface temperature of the tube stock is measured at a plurality of positions on the same outer circumference of the passing tube stock in the outlet side of the induction coil and/or the stretch reducer; and the amount of power flowing into the induction coil is adjusted so that the arithmetic average calculated excluding the highest and lowest values of the measured temperatures conforms to a target one. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

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【発明の効果】
以上述べたように、本発明により、電縫鋼管、圧接鋼管の製造に際して、絞り圧延前に行う素鋼管の均熱が従来より良好になる。その結果、製品鋼管の品質が従来より向上するばかりでなく、生産性も増加する。
【図面の簡単な説明】
【図１】本発明に係る均熱装置での鋼管温度制御方法を説明する図である。
【図２】素鋼管の外周に配置する放射温度計の位置を示す図であり、（ａ）は誘導コイルの出側、（ｂ）はストレッチ・レデューサの出側に対応する。
【図３】従来の均熱装置での鋼管温度制御方法を説明する図であり、（ａ）は均熱装置での誘導コイルの配置状況を、（ｂ）はそこで測定した温度の変化パターン例である。
【図４】電縫鋼管の製造ラインの一例を示す模式図である。
【図５】本発明に係る均熱装置での鋼管温度制御方法を自動で行う際に利用する各装置の配置を示すフロー図である。
【符号の説明】
１ 鋼帯（コイル状鋼帯）
２ 一群の成形ロール
３ インダクション・コイル
４ 素鋼管
５ ビード切削手段（バイト）
６ ストレッチ・レデューサ（絞り圧延機）
７ 誘導コイル
８ 放射温度計
９ コンピュータ
１０ 電力制御装置[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a steel pipe in a soaking device, and more particularly to a technique effective for the production of an electric resistance welded steel pipe and a pressure welded steel pipe.
[0002]
[Prior art]
For example, an electric resistance welded steel pipe is generally formed into a cylindrical shape by a group of forming rolls while rewinding and continuously running a coiled steel strip that is a material, and then both end portions in the width direction of the steel strip that are butted together It is manufactured by welding. In the production, a coiled steel strip obtained by heating a steel slab obtained by continuously casting molten steel to a predetermined temperature in a heating furnace and winding it up to a constant width by hot rolling is used as a raw material. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the steel strip 1 is fed at a constant speed with the steel strip surface horizontal to a group of forming rolls 2 in which rolls having various shapes are arranged in multiple stages. The tubular body processed by the forming roll 2 (referred to as an open pipe since the end portions in the width direction that have been butted together are unjoined) continues to the end portions in the width direction that have been butted in the induction coil or the like. 3 is heated, pressed with a squeeze roll (not shown), crimped, and welded to obtain a steel pipe 4. Since the protrusions called beads are formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the joining portions (hereinafter referred to as seam portions) along the axial direction of the steel pipe 4, the beads are cut and removed by the bead cutting means 5. Further, after a flaw inspection with an ultrasonic flaw detector (not shown), the steel pipe 4 is reheated, and after adjusting the dimensions with a multistage drawing mill such as a stretch reducer 6, a delivery line for dispensing The product is cut into a product length by a cutter (not shown), and an ERW steel pipe having desired characteristics is obtained. Further, if the welding method is replaced by welding or pressure welding or forging, a pressure welded steel pipe or a forged steel pipe is obtained.
[0003]
In addition, for the above-mentioned reheating of the raw steel pipe 4, a soaking device in which a plurality of (for example, eight) induction coils 7 are arranged in series is usually used. Here, soaking means that the entire steel pipe 4 is heated to a predetermined substantially the same temperature, and in order to increase the dimensional accuracy of the steel pipe in the drawing and rolling by the stretch reducer 6 disposed downstream thereof. This is a necessary preliminary process. And so that the product order of small lots continues and the target reheating temperature must be changed frequently for each lot, the soaking device can send a high-frequency current to the heat source so that it can respond quickly. A so-called “induction heater” is used.
[0004]
By the way, the reheating condition of the steel pipe 4 in such a heat equalizing device is that eight induction coils 7 having a width of 800 mm are arranged in series, and the steel pipe 4 having an outer diameter of 146 mmφ and a wall thickness of 4 mm is 40 m / min. In the case of running, as shown in FIGS. 1 to No. A distance of 9.2 m to the induction coil No. 8 is passed through the steel pipe in an extremely short time of about 14 seconds and heated from room temperature to 1000 ° C. during that time. Therefore, the so-called soaking zone is very short. In addition, the heating temperature is set by placing one radiation thermometer in a horizontal posture on the exit side of the induction coil 7 of the eighth unit (symbol: No. 8) and the stretch-red reducer in the final stage, and passing through the element. The temperature of the outer peripheral side surface of the steel pipe 4 is measured at only one point, and control is performed by increasing or decreasing the amount of current flowing through the induction coil 7 so that the measured value becomes a predetermined target value.
[0005]
However, even if the reheating temperature is controlled as described above, the thickness deviation of the steel pipe drawn and drawn by the stretch reducer 6 is not sufficiently eliminated.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In view of such circumstances, the present invention forms the steel strip into a tubular shape, welds the seam portion, and joins by pressure welding, and then draw-rolling the obtained steel pipe before drawing, soaking the steel pipe before drawing. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling the temperature of a steel pipe in a heat equalizing device that makes the heat treatment better than before.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the inventor investigated the problems caused by the conventional temperature control method, and eagerly discovered the countermeasures, and realized the results in the present invention.
[0008]
That is, in the present invention, a steel strip is formed into a tubular shape, and both end portions in the width direction are joined to each other, and then the obtained raw steel pipe is passed through a soaking device in which a plurality of induction coils are arranged in series and reheated. Then, when drawing and rolling with a stretch reducer, the surface temperature at a plurality of locations on the same outer periphery of the passing steel pipe is measured on the exit side of the induction coil and / or stretch reducer, and the lowest measured value is obtained. It is a steel pipe temperature control method in a heat equalizing device, characterized in that the amount of electric power flowing through the induction coil is adjusted so that the arithmetic average value excluding the value and the maximum value matches the target temperature. In this case, it is preferable that a plurality of locations on the same outer circumference of the steel pipe are 5-8, or at least one of the plurality of locations is a lowest portion (corresponding to a position directly below) of the steel pipe.
[0009]
In the present invention, on the exit side of the induction coil and / or stretch reducer, the surface temperature on the same outer periphery of the steel pipe is measured at a plurality of locations, and the electric energy of the induction coil is adjusted by the average value. Prior to drawing rolling, the steel pipe becomes soaked than before. As a result, not only the thickness deviation is eliminated, but also the quality of the product steel pipe is improved as compared with the conventional one, and the productivity is also increased.
[0010]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the circumstances leading to the invention.
[0011]
First, the inventor formed a tubular shape while running a steel strip on a production line, joined both ends of the butted width direction, and then obtained steel strip was soaked with a plurality of induction coils arranged in series. When the steel sheet was passed through the apparatus and reheated and then drawn and drawn with a stretch reducer, the actual condition of the soaking of the raw steel pipe by the conventional temperature control method was grasped.
[0012]
As a result, it was found that the reheated steel pipe had different surface temperatures in the circumferential direction over the longitudinal direction, that is, a non-uniform temperature distribution (not shown, but a deviation of 10 to 50 ° C.). And the cause of this is due to the fact that the raw steel pipe is originally bulging of the weld seam (including the bead), the crown of the steel strip (a phenomenon in which the thickness of the central portion in the width direction of the steel strip is thicker than both ends), etc. The reason is that there is a thickness deviation in the circumferential direction and that the induction coil is rapidly heated at a high temperature of about 1000 ° C., so that the time required to soak the steel pipe is short. It has also been found that the temperature on the outer peripheral surface corresponding to the lowest part of the steel pipe tends to be lower (about 100 to 300 ° C.) than other parts. We have intensively studied the reason why the temperature of the outer peripheral surface corresponding to this lowest part is lower than that of other parts, and found that the cooling water used when forming or welding the steel strip into the tube is still in the pipe even during reheating. It was because it remained.
[0013]
In view of the fact that the conventional temperature control method was performed based on the temperature measured at only one location on the outer periphery of the raw steel pipe, the inventors considered that temperature measurement at multiple locations was necessary. Various attempts were made to materialize this idea, and the present invention was completed.
[0014]
That is, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the surface temperature is constantly measured at a plurality of locations on the same outer periphery of the passing steel pipe 4 on the exit side of the induction coil 7 and / or the stretch reducer 6, and the measurement is performed. The amount of electric power flowing through the induction coil was adjusted so that the average temperature of the values coincided with the target value. At that time, the electric energy may be adjusted only by the temperature measurement value only on the exit side of the induction coil 7, but if the temperature measurement value on the output side of the stretch reducer is also used, a better result will be obtained. It is preferable to use it. In the present invention, the following arithmetic average value excluding the minimum value and the maximum value is adopted as the average temperature. The reason for this is that, as described above, the steel pipe has a bulge and a crown of bead-containing meat and does not necessarily have a uniform thickness in the outer circumferential direction, so the temperature becomes extremely high, or There is a possibility that a so-called “abnormal part” that is lowered may occur. In other words, it is because it is considered that the average value is correct when the abnormal part is removed.
[0015]
Average temperature = (total of each measured temperature excluding minimum temperature and maximum temperature) / number of temperature measuring points on the same circumference. Either manual operation may be selected. In the case of manual operation, the temperature measurement value from the radiation thermometer 8 is calculated by an existing process computer to obtain the average value, and based on the difference from the target value, an alarm is generated or the electric power that is supplied to the induction coil 7 The amount can be adjusted remotely. However, the extent to which the amount of electric power is changed depending on the difference from the target value needs to be determined in advance by performing a test operation or analyzing past operation data. In the case of automatic operation, as shown in FIG. 5, in addition to the thermometer 8, a known electric energy control device 10 that automatically changes the current of the induction coil 7 using an output from a computer (calculator) 9 is provided. It only has to be provided. As in the case of manual operation, the computer 9 calculates the temperature measurement value from the radiation thermometer 8 to obtain the average value, compares it with the target value, and outputs the difference to the electric energy control device 10. become.
[0016]
Furthermore, in this invention, it examined about the number of the temperature measurement locations in the same outer periphery of the said steel pipe 4, and decided to make the number into 4-8 places. In order to determine soaking, it is desirable that the temperature measurement information is obtained by uniformly dividing the circumference of the raw steel pipe 4, and in the actual size of the steel pipe manufactured, at least 90 ° apart from each other. Measurement is required. In that sense, it is preferable that the lower limit of the number of temperature measurement points is four or more on the same outer periphery. The reason why the upper limit is set to 8 is that the accuracy of temperature control is saturated and the installation of the thermometer is wasted even if it is further increased.
[0017]
In addition, the inventor considered that the temperature measurement information of the lowest part of the raw steel pipe 4 is particularly necessary to eliminate the influence of the remaining water in the pipe. For this reason, in the present invention, it is preferable to always include the lowest part of the steel pipe (corresponding directly below) at one of the temperature measuring points.
[0018]
【Example】
A steel pipe 4 (outer diameter 146 mmφ × thickness 4.37) was produced by the production line shown in FIG. 4 using the steel strip 1 having a C equivalent of 0.18% by mass. This raw steel pipe 4 was continuously drawn and rolled to a outer diameter of 57.0 mmφ × thickness of 4.20 mm with a 16-stage stretch reducer 6 to obtain a product ERW steel pipe. Prior to the drawing rolling, the steel pipe 4 was reheated by passing it through a soaking device comprising eight induction coils 7 shown in FIG.
In the implementation, the radiation thermometer 8 is previously provided at seven locations on the exit side of the induction coil 7 and 6 on the exit side of the stretch reducer 6 so as to correspond to the temperature measuring positions shown in FIGS. In addition to being arranged in place, they were connected to the computer 9 and the power control device 10 of the induction coil 7 so that the steel pipe temperature control method in the heat equalizing device according to the present invention could be carried out automatically. Moreover, in order to confirm the effect of this invention, the conventional temperature control method which made one temperature measurement location on the outer periphery of a raw steel pipe was also implemented. The target temperature of the raw steel pipe 4 stored in the computer was 960 to 970 ° C. on the exit side of the induction coil, and 840 to 850 ° C. on the exit side of the stretch reducer 6. For changing the power value, the relationship between the rise or fall of the raw steel pipe temperature and the power value is obtained in advance by a test operation, the relationship is stored in the computer 9, and the power control device 10 of the induction coil 7 is changed. Went through. Further, as the radiation thermometer 8, the detection element is an InGaAs alloy, the detection temperature range is 300 to 1600 ° C., the field of view is 1000 ° C., and the specification is 8 mmφ.
[0019]
The results of the evaluation are evaluated by the deviation between the average temperature and the target temperature, and are shown in Table 1. From Table 1, it is clear that the deviation obtained by the implementation of the control method according to the present invention is smaller than that obtained by the implementation of the conventional control method. That is, the deviation with respect to the target temperature is reduced to ½ or less of the conventional temperature, and soaking before drawing is improved. Moreover, as shown in Table 2, the product acceptance rate, yield, and productivity of the ERW steel pipe actually manufactured were also improved.
[0020]
[Table 1]

[0021]
[Table 2]

[0022]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, in the production of an electric resistance welded steel pipe and a pressure welded steel pipe, the soaking of the raw steel pipe performed before drawing rolling becomes better than before. As a result, not only the quality of the product steel pipe is improved, but also the productivity is increased.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a steel pipe temperature control method in a heat equalizing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams showing positions of radiation thermometers arranged on the outer periphery of the steel pipe, wherein FIG. 2A corresponds to the exit side of the induction coil, and FIG. 2B corresponds to the exit side of the stretch reducer.
FIGS. 3A and 3B are diagrams for explaining a steel pipe temperature control method in a conventional heat equalizer, wherein FIG. 3A shows an arrangement state of induction coils in the heat equalizer, and FIG. 3B shows an example of a temperature change pattern measured there. It is.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing an example of a production line for an electric resistance welded steel pipe.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the arrangement of each device used when automatically performing the steel pipe temperature control method in the heat equalizing device according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Steel strip (coiled steel strip)
2 Group of forming rolls 3 Induction coil 4 Steel pipe 5 Bead cutting means (bite)
6 Stretch reducer (drawing mill)
7 Induction coil 8 Radiation thermometer 9 Computer 10 Power control device

Claims (3)

After forming the steel strip into a tubular shape and joining the end portions in the width direction, the obtained steel strip is reheated by passing it through a soaking device in which a plurality of induction coils are arranged in series, and then stretch reducer When drawing with
At the exit side of the induction coil and / or stretch reducer, the surface temperature is simultaneously measured at a plurality of locations on the same outer circumference of the passing steel pipe, and the arithmetic average value excluding the lowest value and the highest value is the target. A method for controlling the temperature of a steel pipe in a heat equalizing apparatus, wherein the amount of electric power flowing through the induction coil is adjusted so as to match the temperature. The steel pipe temperature control method in a heat equalizing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of places on the same outer periphery of the steel pipe are 5 to 8 places. The steel pipe temperature control method in a heat equalizer according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least one of a plurality of locations on the same outer circumference of the steel pipe is the lowest part of the steel pipe.

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