A semi-continuous casting equipment for thin-walled alloy castings with equal outer diameter, optimized by synergistic action of traveling magnetic fields and ultrasonic wave, includes: a melting and insulation device, a heat insulation panel, a traveling magnetic field generator and a water-cooled crystallizer sequentially positioned on a working platform; an outer mold positioned on the water-cooled crystallizer and sleeved the traveling magnetic field generator; a mold core inside the outer mold defining a casting cavity; a bottom plate below the mold core capable of sliding against and along an inner side of the outer mold; two position control units supported by the working platform; an ultrasonic limit baffle moveably engaged with the position control units; an ultrasonic wave generator affixed on the ultrasonic limit baffle and extended to the casting cavity; a motion system controlling up and down movement of the bottom plate and the position control units through a gear transmission mechanism.

The present disclosure relates to a casting apparatus and a casting method. The casting method includes injecting a molten material into a mold by using a nozzle, forming a static magnetic field applied region and a non-static magnetic field applied region in a width direction of the mold and controlling a flow of the molten material in a longitudinal direction of the mold, and drawing a cast slab. Through this, as the flow of the molten material accommodated in a container is locally controlled, cleanliness of the molten material may be secured, and a quality of a product may be improved.

With a method for detecting variables in an outlet of a metallurgical vessel, different variables in the outlet are detected or measured by at least one coil surrounding the outlet channel and/or an induction coil of an induction heater as a monitoring system, wherein the variables relate to the slag portion when pouring out the metal melt, wear condition of refractory parts in the outlet channel, the solidified metal melt, flow rate and/or plugging mass in the outlet channel. After evaluation, a closure element for the outlet is actuated, heating of the metal in the outlet channel is activated and/or renewal of the outlet channel is triggered. In this way, optimum operation in the pouring of metal melt out of a vessel is simply achieved, wherein occurrence of irregularities are detected during the entire pouring, and pouring out of slag can be successfully prevented at the end of the pouring.

Apparatus to control continuous casting, comprising a mold provided with at least one entrance end through which liquid metal is introduced. Furthermore, according to the present invention, the apparatus to control continuous casting comprises at least one electromagnetic brake associated with the mold, configured to induce in the liquid metal recirculation flows, and a control and command unit connected at least to the electromagnetic brake and configured to manage the functioning thereof.

A control device for continuous casting continuously producing a slab by injecting a molten metal from a nozzle to a mold and extracting the molten metal while solidifying the molten metal, includes a molten metal level meter measuring a molten metal level in the mold, a main control unit obtaining an operation amount of a flow rate adjusting mechanism that adjusts a flow rate of a molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle such that a molten metal level measured by the molten metal level meter follows a molten metal level target value, a flowmeter measuring the flow rate of the molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle, an input disturbance correction unit obtaining a first correction amount for the operation amount of the flow rate adjusting mechanism obtained by the main control unit.

The invention relates to a method and a device for casting a melt 4 of a metallic material by means of a furnace 2 of a low pressure casting device, which furnace 2 has a receiving space 3 and a riser tube protruding into said receiving space 3. By pressurizing the receiving space 3 with compressed air, the melt 4 in the riser tube 12 of the furnace 2 is pressed into a mold cavity 10 of a mold 7, wherein simultaneously, a magnetic field acting against the conveying direction 23 of the melt 4 is applied to the melt 4 of the metallic material by means of a magnetic element 16 arranged in the region of the riser tube 12.

A system for detection of the level of a liquid metal within a crystallizer of a mold has a detection system. The detection system is based on a transmission of at least one signal transmitted toward a crystallizer having the liquid metal therein and a reception of a reflection of the transmitted signal. A first ultrasonic element transmits a ultrasonic elastic wave and a second ultrasonic element receives the ultrasonic elastic wave. A processor measures a time elapsed between transmission and reception and correlates the elapsed time relative to the level of liquid metal in the crystallizer.

A semi-continuous casting equipment for thin-walled alloy castings with equal outer diameter, optimized by synergistic action of traveling magnetic fields and ultrasonic wave, includes: a melting and insulation device, a heat insulation panel, a traveling magnetic field generator and a water-cooled crystallizer sequentially positioned on a working platform; an outer mold positioned on the water-cooled crystallizer and sleeved the traveling magnetic field generator; a mold core inside the outer mold defining a casting cavity; a bottom plate below the mold core capable of sliding against and along an inner side of the outer mold; two position control units supported by the working platform; an ultrasonic limit baffle moveably engaged with the position control units; an ultrasonic wave generator affixed on the ultrasonic limit baffle and extended to the casting cavity; a motion system controlling up and down movement of the bottom plate and the position control units through a gear transmission mechanism.

Slide closure unit on the spout of a metallurgical vessel, preferably a copper-anode furnace, includes a housing in which refractory closure plates, as well as at least one connecting refractory inner casing, are arranged. A removable induction heater is provided, having at least one induction coil surrounding the refractory inner casing outside of the housing. In this way, it is possible to constantly keep the melt located in the outlet channel of the spout sufficiently warm so that it does not freeze before and/or during the pouring of the melt, or that any frozen metal and/or slag can be melted in the spout.

An electromagnetic brake system for a metal-making process. The electromagnetic brake system includes a two-level magnetic structure, in particular an upper magnetic core structure configured to be mounted to an upper portion of a mold and a lower magnetic core structure configured to be mounted to a lower portion of a mold. Lateral coils on the upper magnetic structure are configured to be controlled to generate a first magnetic field in a first field direction and inner coils are configured to be controlled to generate a second magnetic field in a second field direction, simultaneously with the first magnetic field. The lower magnetic core structure has lower coils which are configured to be controlled to generate a third magnetic field in the first direction simultaneously as the lateral coils and the inner coils generate their fields.