A device is disclosed for coupling a coolant supply and/or coolant drainage to a roll, especially in a continuous casting installation, wherein the roll includes a journal, which is mounted rotatably in a bearing block, and a lateral recess, extending in the axial direction, and at least one roll cooling channel, through which a coolant can pass. The device includes at least one coolant channel, which can be brought into fluidic connection with the roll cooling channel on the journal side; and a sealing unit for sealing the fluidic connection between the coolant channel and the roll cooling channel, including an inner module and an outer module. The inner module includes a hollow cylindrical element, which can be inserted into the lateral recess of the journal, and which, when viewed in the axial direction, has no flange on the outer side of the journal.

A metal casting system includes a master conveyor, a slave conveyor, a cutting device, and a control system. The master conveyor includes a first belt and a first motor, and the slave conveyor is separated from the master conveyor and includes a second belt and a second belt. The cutting device is between the master conveyor and the slave conveyor and selectively cuts a metal product that is conveyed by the master conveyor and the slave conveyor. The control system includes a sensor that detects ends of sections of the metal product as the sections of the metal product move in a downstream direction. The control system also includes a controller communicatively coupled with the sensor. The controller selectively controls at least one of the first motor or the second motor based on the detected ends from the sensor.

An apparatus for the continuous casting of thin slabs, having a strand guide, which is arranged downstream of a permanent mold in the casting direction and which guides the strand output from the permanent mold along a first direction, having an adjoining bending/straightening region, which a mechanism for driving and bending the strand in a second direction, which differs from the first direction, having a cutting device, which cuts the strand into thin slabs, and having a first furnace, which is provided for temperature compensation in the strand, wherein the first furnace extends in an arched manner at least partially over the bending/straightening region and in part along the second direction.

A method of manufacturing a round steel billet by continuous casting includes a local cooling step where inhomogeneous forced cooling is applied to a cast product during the continuous casting, and a rolling reduction step where rolling reduction is applied to the cast product in the opposite directions of the polar opposites by reduction rolls in the course from the completion of solidification to the completion of the recuperation of the cast product so that rolling reduction r which is a reduction ratio of a distance between middle points of the polar opposites is set to a value exceeding 0% and 5% or less.

Conditions for soft reduction are determined in a method of continuous casting in accordance with a method utilizing the thickness of a slab strand to prevent center segregation from occurring in the strand due to an insufficient pressing rate or internal cracks from occurring in the strand due to an excessively high pressing rate.

A method for the continuous casting of a metal strand in a continuous casting installation, in which, in a casting machine, the metal formed into a slab, with a still molten core, is brought out vertically from a mold, wherein, downstream of the mold in the conveying direction, the slab is made to move along a casting bow, through a number of casting bow segments, and is deflected into the horizontal, wherein each casting bow segment has a number of segment rollers, which are designed for coming into contact with the surface of the slab. In the region before the end of the casting machine, a number of segment rollers are lifted off from the surface of the slab, or are not installed in receptacles provided, and so the contact between the slab and the segment roller is interrupted or there is no contact.

Provided is a slab warpage detection apparatus detecting warpage of a slab drawn from a mold in continuous casting equipment. The slab warpage detection apparatus includes a pair of pressing roils that pinches the slab on a rear side of a roll segment, supporting the slab drawn from the mold, in a slab drawing direction, a movement unit that supports the pair of pressing rolls to be movable in a thickness direction of the slab, and a position detecting unit that detects positions of the pressing rolls in the thickness direction of the slab.

Provided is a slab warpage detection apparatus detecting warpage of a slab drawn from a mold in continuous casting equipment. The slab warpage detection apparatus includes a pair of pressing roils that pinches the slab on a rear side of a roll segment, supporting the slab drawn from the mold, in a slab drawing direction, a movement unit that supports the pair of pressing rolls to be movable in a thickness direction of the slab, and a position detecting unit that detects positions of the pressing rolls in the thickness direction of the slab.

Continuous casting equipment includes a casting product reduction apparatus and a casting product drawing apparatus, the casting product reduction apparatus including a pair of casting product reduction rolls that sandwich and apply pressure to a casting product and being configured to apply reduction to the casting product, the casting product drawing apparatus being provided in a following stage of the casting product reduction apparatus and configured to sandwich and draw the casting product with a pair of casting product drawing rolls. At least one of the pair of casting product reduction rolls includes a large-diameter part that projects radially outward in an axial-direction center region and applies pressure to a width-direction center region of the casting product. The casting product that is subjected to reduction by the casting product reduction apparatus has a depressed part corresponding to the large-diameter part. At least one of the pair of casting product drawing rolls of the casting product drawing apparatus includes a depressed part supporting part that contacts with and supports the depressed part, and is driven by a driving mechanism. An axial-direction length L.sub.2 of the depressed part supporting part and an axial-direction length L.sub.1 of the large-diameter part of the casting product reduction roll satisfy 0.5×L.sub.1≦L.sub.2<L.sub.1.

A method and a system for configuring a strand guiding system (8, 8a, 8b) of a continuous casting machine (2) and such a strand guiding system (8, 8a, 8b). A strand guiding segment (10g-r) guides a metal strand in the strand guiding system (8, 8a, 8b). The strand guiding system (8, 8a, 8b) has a plurality of strand guiding segments (10g-r) and respective control units (22g-r), wherein each control unit (22g-r) identifies its strand guiding segment (10g-r), and each control unit (22g-r) automatically depends on the strand guiding segments (10g-r) identified by the control unit (22g-r). The strand guiding system (8, 8a, 8b) and the strand guiding segment (10g-r) are prepared for the performance of the method herein disclosed.