WO2010145860A1 - Descaler for variable thickness metal - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
- B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
- B21B45/04—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills for de-scaling, e.g. by brushing
- B21B45/08—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills for de-scaling, e.g. by brushing hydraulically
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- the invention is concerned with the descaling of metal slabs and ingots prior to rolling.
- plate mills In general, plate mills have a descaling system for removing scale from the slabs before they are rolled and in most modern mills high pressure water jets are used for this descaling.
- FIG. 1 A cross section of a typical modern descaler is illustrated in Figure 1.
- the descaler contains two top headers - 1 and 2 - and two bottom headers - 3 and 4.
- the slabs are transported by the rollers 5 in the direction indicated by the arrow 6 so that the slabs pass through the descaler.
- many descalers have two sets of headers, as illustrated in Figure 1 , normally only one set (i.e. one top header and one bottom header) is used at a time and the other set is reserved as a standby set. It is quite common for descaling nozzles to become blocked and if this happens then the mill switches to the standby set of headers until such a time as it is convenient to carry out maintenance on the blocked nozzles.
- Figure 2 illustrates one of the top headers 1 , 2.
- the high pressure descaling water typically at around 180 Bar pressure or more, enters the header 1 through - in this design - pipes at both ends 9.
- the descaling jets 8 spray this high pressure water onto the slab.
- the angle of inclination of the nozzle from the vertical - ⁇ in Figure 3 - and the offset angle ⁇ _ ensures that the high pressure water and scale bouncing back from the surface of the slab does not interfere with the direct jet whilst the offset angle ensures that neighbouring jets do not interfere with each other.
- the spacing between the nozzles E is chosen to give a small overlap D between adjacent nozzles. This small overlap ensures that the full surface of the slab is descaled even if the setting of the header height is slightly wrong for the thickness of the slab.
- the total flow for the header is obviously the number of nozzles times the flow for each nozzle.
- Ingots 10 have a trapezoidal shape as illustrated in Figure 4.
- the difference in thickness between the thinner end and the thicker end of the ingot can be up to around 80 mm or more. Since the standoff distance h2 on a typical descaler is around 150 mm then it is not possible to descale the full length of the ingot properly with the header of a conventional descaler set at a fixed height. If the header height is set correctly for the thick end of the ingot then the impact pressure at the thin end would be too low for good descaling. If the header height was set for the thin end of the ingot then the jets will not overlap properly at the thick end and stripes of scale would remain.
- the objective of the invention is to descale ingots along their full length without the problems discussed in the prior art.
- metal descaling apparatus comprises the features set out in claim 1 attached hereto.
- the nozzles may conveniently be arranged in linear arrays. More conveniently, the arrays are arranged orthogonal to the datum parallel to the direction of movement of the metal and in a particularly preferred embodiment, the nozzles are equally spaced along the array.
- a method of descaling metal comprises the features set out in claim 5 attached hereto.
- a metal slab of substantially constant thickness is passed below the arrays with at least one array being employed for descaling.
- the one array is arranged at a sufficient distance above the metal to allow for partial overlap of the descaling fluid sprays on the metal surface.
- a metal slab of substantially constant thickness is passed below the arrays with both arrays being employed for descaling.
- the arrays are arranged to ensure coverage of the metal surface at every distance from the datum, by the spray from at least one nozzle.
- descaling fluid is directed through the nozzles in both arrays while passing a metal slab of varying thickness therebelow.
- the arrays are arranged within a range of distances above the metal whereby partial overlap of the descaling fluid sprays from one array is ensured on the metal surface in the thinnest region of the metal, and coverage of the metal surface at every distance from the datum, by the spray from at least one nozzle, is ensured in the thickest region of the metal.
- figure 1 illustrates a cross section of a typical modern descaler
- figure 2 illustrates one of the top headers of figure 1 ;
- figure 3 illustrates the 'flat fan' type nozzles typically used for descaling metal in modern plate mills
- figure 4 illustrates the typical tapered, trapezoidal shape of metal ingots used in modern plate mills
- figure 5 shows the spray pattern for one of the headers according to the invention at the normal standoff distance of 150 mm;
- figure 6 shows the spray pattern for the same header at a reduced standoff distance of 70 mm
- figure 7 shows the spray pattern obtained from the combined headers according to the invention.
- the invention is realised by arranging two arrays of nozzles 17 (which are similar in terms of size, number and spacing of nozzles) on headers 1 , 2 and offsetting the headers relative to each other.
- Datum 7 is parallel to the direction 6 in which the metal passes below the nozzles and the effect of this arrangement is that each of the nozzles 17 on header 2 are each located at a different distance from the datum than any of the nozzles on header 1 .
- the sprays produced by header 2 are centered on different longitudinal lines than any of the sprays produced by header 1.
- the arrays are arranged such that the spray patterns from one set of nozzles overlap and one or both arrays descale the full width of the metal.
- this 'normal' distance depends on a number of parameters but typically may be in the region of 150mm.
- the two arrays descale different, but overlapping, regions of the metal.
- the minimum standoff distance may be in the region of 70mm.
- the spray patterns of the two headers interlace with each other and both headers are used at the same time when descaling metal of varying thickness such as ingots.
- Figure 6 shows that, at a reduced standoff distance of 70 mm, there are obvious gaps between each of the jets. This is the standoff distance that would be achieved on the thick end of an ingot if the header height was set for the thin end of the ingot and the ingot was 80 mm thicker at the thick end.
- the second descaling header is also used.
- the second header is arranged so that its jets interlace with the jets of the first header so that the whole surface of the ingot gets descaled as illustrated in Figure 7.
- spray pattern 12 is the spray pattern that the first header makes on the thin end of the ingot at 150 mm standoff.
- the whole width of the ingot is descaled because each jet overlaps slightly with its neighbour.
- Spray pattern 13 is the spray pattern that the second header makes on the thin end of the ingot at 150 mm standoff. Again the whole width is descaled. The thin end of the ingot therefore gets descaled twice.
- Spray pattern 14 is the spray pattern which the first header makes on the thick end of the ingot at 70 mm standoff. Due to the reduced standoff distance there are gaps between the jets 16 and the whole width is not descaled.
- Spray pattern 15 is the spray pattern which the second header makes on the thick end of the ingot at 70 mm standoff. However the jets of the second header are deliberately offset relative to the first header so that spray pattern 15 fills in the gaps 16 in spray pattern 14 and hence the whole width of the ingot is descaled.
- Another advantage of the invention is that for ordinary slabs which are difficult to descale (e.g. because of their particular metallurgy) the operator could decide to use both headers together and to set the standoff distance to (e.g.) 70 mm instead of 150 mm. This would give very much higher impact pressure and hence better descaling and the offset of the second header relative to the first would ensure that the whole width would still get descaled at the shorter standoff distance.
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BRPI1011303A BRPI1011303A2 (en) | 2009-06-18 | 2010-04-07 | variable thickness metal descaler |
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RU2012101632/02A RU2012101632A (en) | 2009-06-18 | 2010-04-07 | DEVICE FOR SCALING FROM METAL OF VARIABLE THICKNESS |
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