C21D11/00

Water spray system for heat treatment of metal plate strips and control method

The present invention belongs to the field of heat treatment for metal plate strips, and discloses a water spray system for heat treatment of metal plate strips and a control method. The system comprises a shunt water collector, sub-water supply pipelines, a control valve group and a control system. The control method comprises a water pressure regulating method and a water flow regulating method. The shunt water collector adopts multi-pipeline uniform flow design and realizes uniform shunt and constant pressure water supply. The sub-water supply pipelines are designed with three configuration modes of a control valve group in accordance with varieties and specifications of metal plate strips, rhythms of production and heat treatment technologies to realize dual closed-loop control of water pressure-water flow.

METHOD OF BATCHING AND SCHEDULING FOR STEELMAKING PRODUCTION WITH PLANT-WIDE PROCESS CONSIDERATION
20170316131 · 2017-11-02 ·

Provided is a method of batching and scheduling for steelmaking production with plant-wide process consideration, including the steps of: establishing a mathematical model for quantitatively describing the decision problem of batching on steelmaking and continuous casting procedures; starting from the production capacity balance between parallel equipment of the same procedure, and material flow convergence between upstream and downstream procedures, establishing a model for the assignment and sequencing of batches on continuous casting equipment and the time dimension; integrating the batching plan and the production scheduling scheme, issuing the batching plan and the production scheduling scheme integrated to all production and manufacturing units at the steelmaking stage. The present invention improves product quality, increases the material yield, resource utilization rate and equipment operation efficiency, realizes load balance on parallel equipment and smooth material linkage between serial equipment, and reduces the material flow transportation jam, downstream equipment waiting time and inventory.

METHOD OF BATCHING AND SCHEDULING FOR STEELMAKING PRODUCTION WITH PLANT-WIDE PROCESS CONSIDERATION
20170316131 · 2017-11-02 ·

Provided is a method of batching and scheduling for steelmaking production with plant-wide process consideration, including the steps of: establishing a mathematical model for quantitatively describing the decision problem of batching on steelmaking and continuous casting procedures; starting from the production capacity balance between parallel equipment of the same procedure, and material flow convergence between upstream and downstream procedures, establishing a model for the assignment and sequencing of batches on continuous casting equipment and the time dimension; integrating the batching plan and the production scheduling scheme, issuing the batching plan and the production scheduling scheme integrated to all production and manufacturing units at the steelmaking stage. The present invention improves product quality, increases the material yield, resource utilization rate and equipment operation efficiency, realizes load balance on parallel equipment and smooth material linkage between serial equipment, and reduces the material flow transportation jam, downstream equipment waiting time and inventory.

METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL BAND MATERIAL WITH DIFFERENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ACROSS THE WIDTH OF THE BAND
20170298463 · 2017-10-19 ·

A method for producing metal band material with different mechanic& properties across the width of the band, in which the hand is heated zonally with regard to the width so that zones with a different heating state are temporarily produced and the band is then cooled in, order to produce regions with a different metal structure and thus different mechanical properties, wherein one or more zones that are to be heated are acted on with a heating device, while the other zones are isolated from the heating or are freed of the heating or are actively cooled or else a beat flow, which is introduced into the zones that are not to be heated, is diverted to contact masses that are resting against the zones that are not to be heated.

METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL BAND MATERIAL WITH DIFFERENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ACROSS THE WIDTH OF THE BAND
20170298463 · 2017-10-19 ·

A method for producing metal band material with different mechanic& properties across the width of the band, in which the hand is heated zonally with regard to the width so that zones with a different heating state are temporarily produced and the band is then cooled in, order to produce regions with a different metal structure and thus different mechanical properties, wherein one or more zones that are to be heated are acted on with a heating device, while the other zones are isolated from the heating or are freed of the heating or are actively cooled or else a beat flow, which is introduced into the zones that are not to be heated, is diverted to contact masses that are resting against the zones that are not to be heated.

METHOD FOR MINIMIZING THE GLOBAL PRODUCTION COST OF LONG METAL PRODUCTS AND PRODUCTION PLANT OPERATING ACCORDING TO SUCH METHOD
20170298491 · 2017-10-19 ·

A method for producing long metal products includes the steps of receiving long intermediate products traveling on respective continuous casting lines, to an exit area, and subsequently introducing products from the exit area into a production plant having known layout parameters; the production plant has a rolling mill for rolling the products; interconnected production lines between the exit area of the casting machine and the rolling mill, the production lines define production paths or routes; and a first and a second heating devices. The method associates a mathematical model to the production plant for dynamically calculating a reference value, or Global Heating Cost Index, correlated to heating devices; automatically determining for the intermediate products the production path or route that minimizes the reference value, or Global Heating Cost Index; and eventually automatically routing each of the products along the determined production path which minimizes the reference value, or Global Heating Cost Index.

MATERIAL-PROPERTY-VALUE ESTIMATING METHOD, MATERIAL-PROPERTY-VALUE ESTIMATING DEVICE, AND STEEL-STRIP MANUFACTURING METHOD

A material-property-value estimating method of estimating a material-property-value of a target steel-strip product manufactured via at least one of a reheating process, a rolling process, and a cooling process, which are performed while a target material is being conveyed along a conveyance route, the material-property-value estimating method includes an estimating step of estimating a material-property-value of each of meshes dividing the target steel-strip product based on a measured value that has been measured once or more by a measuring device installed on the conveyance route, the measured value including at least a temperature of the target material; and a chemical composition per component of the target steel-strip product.

Method for refining magnetic domain of grain-oriented electrical steel plate and device therefor
11254994 · 2022-02-22 · ·

A method for refining a magnetic domain of a grain-oriented electrical steel strip is provided, including a steel strip supporting roll position adjusting step of controlling a position of the steel strip in a vertical direction while supporting the steel strip proceeding along a production line, a laser irradiating step of forming a groove on a surface of the steel strip by irradiating a laser beam onto the surface of the steel strip to melt the steel strip, and a detecting step of detecting a defect in the groove formed on the surface of the steel strip while the steel strip proceeds, so as to be able to detect whether the groove is defective by confirming a machining state of a magnetic domain refined groove formed on the surface of the steel strip in a working process.

Method and apparatus for controlling the strip temperature of the rapid cooling section of a continuous annealing line
09783867 · 2017-10-10 · ·

Provided are a method and apparatus for uniformly controlling the strip temperature of the rapid cooling section of a continuous annealing line. A plurality of sets of cooling nozzle blocks for controlling the strip temperature is installed at the front and back sides of the strip, and is divided into lengthwise flow control nozzle blocks and widthwise flow control nozzle blocks. Strip center temperature meters and widthwise direction temperature meters are installed at the intake and discharge sides of the rapid cooling section. Temperatures obtained using the strip center temperature meters and the width direction temperature meters are used to respectively control the spraying of mist for the lengthwise flow control nozzle blocks and the widthwise flow control nozzle blocks in order to uniformly control the strip temperature and minimize changes in the flatness of the strip. The widthwise temperature meters at the intake and discharge ends of the rapid cooling section of the continuous annealing line are used to detect the temperature. Feedback/feedforward control technique can be used to uniformly control the widthwise temperature of the strip through flow rate control over mist sprayed in the widthwise direction of the rapid cooling section.

PREDICTING CRACKING IN COOLED METAL OR ALLOY COMPONENTS

An example system may include a computing device including a finite element analysis module solving for a finite element model representing a component including a metal or an alloy and including a plurality of respective elements. The finite element analysis module may solve a respective stress S.sub.t and a respective temperature T.sub.t at each respective element during the predetermined cooling operating. The finite element analysis module may determine a respective impact energy E.sub.T based on the temperature T.sub.t and cooling rate, using a predetermined cooling rate-dependent energy relationship that relates a temperature of the metal or the alloy to an impact energy, determine a respective weakness index W.sub.t=[A×E.sub.T/S.sub.t].sup.n (A being a predetermined constant, n being a predetermined real number greater than or equal to 1), and identify a respective element having a minimum weakness index less than a predetermined weakness index threshold as a cracking-prone element.