Disclosed is a continuous casting ingot mold for metals, of the type made of an assembly of metal plates mounted against cooling devices configured to allow cooling of the metal plates by the circulation of a liquid coolant. Said ingot mold comprises an optical fiber with a diameter greater than 1.6 mm, having a plurality of fiber Bragg grating filters and extending in a wall of at least one of said plates in a direction that is not parallel to the axis of casting of the ingot mold.

What is provided is a novel and improved dross removal device capable of more efficiently collecting a bath surface dross using a dross robot, and a dross removal method.

In order to solve the problem, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dross removal device including: a dross robot that is configured to collect a bath surface dross present on a bath surface of a coating bath; a dross sensor that is configured to measure an intensity of infrared light from the bath surface of the coating bath; a dross sensor control device that is configured to specify a position of the bath surface dross according to a temporal change amount in the intensity of the infrared light; and a dross robot control device that is configured to cause the dross robot to collect the bath surface dross at the position specified by the dross sensor control device.

A system for determining a set temperature of molten metal in a pouring facility includes a temperature sensor configured to detect a molten metal temperature at a nozzle tip of a ladle during pouring processing, and a control unit configured to acquire temperature transition obtained by plotting the molten metal temperature for each mold in each of the pouring processing, wherein the control unit determines the upper limit temperature to cause a percentage of the number of optimum temperature transitions included in a plurality of acquired temperature transitions in the number of the plurality of acquired temperature transitions to become a predetermined percentage, and determines a temperature obtained by adding a drop temperature that is a temperature dropped during conveyance processing and the determined upper limit temperature, as the set temperature.

A method of analyzing a phase transformation process of a material comprises providing a spherical sample of the material, measuring and recording a first data series of core temperature at the sample's center of gravity, measuring and recording a respective second data series of temperature at the sample's periphery, measuring and recording a respective third data series of radial displacements at the sample's periphery, and calculating a change in pressure in the sample at a plurality of points in time based on first, second and third said data series.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein that track an integrated deviation of a physical property of a material that corresponds to a variation or defect in the material. In one embodiment, molten steel begins to solidify and move past an instrumented region of a mold. Sensors in the mold can detect a deviation in temperature of the instrumented region of the mold that signifies a variation or defect in the surface of the slab material as it solidifies. The systems, methods, and apparatuses track the integrated temperature deviation to more clearly visualize defects that may otherwise not be detectable by simply observing the temperatures of the mold and slab material in real time.

The disclosure includes a temperature measuring device and a temperature measuring method for measuring the temperature of molten metals. The temperature measuring device includes a temperature sensing element, a support tube, a connecting tube and an exhaust structure. The temperature sensing element is a cermet tube with a closed end and an open end, and can sense the temperature of a molten metal and emit stable thermal radiation energy based on the blackbody cavity principle when being extended into the molten metal. The open end of the cermet tube is fixedly connected to one end of the support tube, the cermet tube is communicated with the support tube, and the other end of the support tube is fixedly connected with the connecting tube. The exhaust structure is used to discharge the smoke inside the cermet tube and the support tube.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a mold for continuous casting including a temperature detection unit which can detect the temperature of a copper plate of the mold with high precision, and can be easily inserted into and pulled out of the copper plate. The present invention includes: a main body; and a temperature detection unit which is inserted in an insertion hole in the main body, and detects temperature inside the mold. The temperature detection unit includes: an FBG sensor inserted in a protection tube which can be deformed in a radial direction; and a support member which supports the FBG sensor along the longitudinal direction. At a temperature detection point, the protection tube in which the FBG sensor is inserted is held between a stretched member in the support member and an inner surface of the insertion hole.

A melting vessel for performing an electro-slag melting method and such a method are presented. Measuring devices measuring a temperature at different heights allow conclusions about position and height of a slag zone in the melting vessel during the method.

In order to contribute to optimization of manufacturing conditions under which to manufacture an aluminum product, a property predicting device includes: a data obtaining section configured to obtain a plurality of parameters indicative of manufacturing conditions under which to manufacture an aluminum product; and a neural network (i) including an input layer, at least one intermediate layer, and an output layer and (ii) configured to (a) receive the plurality of parameters as input data supplied to the input layer and (b) supply, from the output layer, a property value of the aluminum product which has been manufactured under the manufacturing conditions indicated by the plurality of parameters.

A method for feeding a cored wire into molten metal contained in a vessel comprises positioning the cored wire at a first position wherein a leading tip of the cored wire is proximate an entry point of the vessel, the entry point being above a surface of the molten metal, the cored wire comprising an optical fiber and a cover laterally surrounding the optical fiber; feeding the cored wire at a first speed for a first duration from the first position to a second position wherein the leading tip of the cored wire is immersed within the molten metal and lies within a measuring plane, such that a leading tip of the optical fiber projects from the cover and is exposed to the molten metal; and subsequently feeding the cored wire at a second speed for a second duration to take a first measurement of the molten metal.