EP0097561A1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum elektromagnetischen Rühren stranggegossener Brammen, insbesondere aus Stahl - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum elektromagnetischen Rühren stranggegossener Brammen, insbesondere aus Stahl Download PDF

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EP0097561A1
EP0097561A1 EP83401148A EP83401148A EP0097561A1 EP 0097561 A1 EP0097561 A1 EP 0097561A1 EP 83401148 A EP83401148 A EP 83401148A EP 83401148 A EP83401148 A EP 83401148A EP 0097561 A1 EP0097561 A1 EP 0097561A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
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    • B22D11/122—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ using magnetic fields

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  • the present invention relates to the electromagnetic stirring of metallic slabs, in particular of steel, continuously cast. It more precisely relates to electromagnetic stirring operations Me- t al molten in the secondary cooling zone of a continuous casting machine slabs.
  • the electromagnetic stirring operations consist, as is known, of subjecting the cast product to one or more mobile magnetic fields, sliding in a determined direction, and whose action on the liquid metal is then manifested by a drive of the latter identical, in direction and direction, to the displacement of the magnetic field.
  • the mobile magnetic field is generally created by a polyphase static inductor preferably placed in the immediate vicinity of the cast product and which may have different designs: for example a monobloc inductor, similar to a linear induction motor stator, placed either behind the holding rollers and guiding the slab during casting, either in substitution for one or more of these rollers (French patent n ° 2,068,308, German patent n ° 2,401,145), or even in spaces made available between two rollers consecutive (French Patent No. 2,187,468). It has also been proposed an inductor of cylindrical structure introduced inside the same of one or more rollers, made tubular for this purpose (English patent n ° 1.405.312).
  • the question which then arises, and to which the present invention aims to answer, consists in knowing whether there is an optimal type of stirring making it possible to achieve surely, jointly with a very wide central equiaxial zone, a level of the lowest possible macro-segregation, and in any case significantly more reduced than that obtained by the usual technique of electromagnetic stirring.
  • Another aim is to achieve the above-mentioned result with a minimum of mixing inducers.
  • the invention relates to a method of electromagnetic stirring of metallic slabs, in particular of steel, continuously cast, according to which, in the part of the liquid well located downstream of the mold in the direction of extraction of the slab, the latter is subjected to at least one mobile magnetic field, sliding along the width of the slab and creating a movement of entrainment of the liquid metal, process characterized in that a plurality of sliding magnetic fields are made to act so as to stir the liquid metal over the portion of the metallurgical height between 3 and 4 meters approximately below the free surface of the metal in the mold and approximately 3 meters from the bottom of the solidification well, in that said magnetic fields are produced by electromagnetic inductors which are offset between them along the metallurgical height by a separation distance of 1 to 2 meters approximately and in that the magnetic field created by an inductor onque slides in a direction opposite to that of the magnetic fields created by the closest offset inductors on both sides.
  • the solidification well the depth of which determines the "metallurgical height" is defined as the distance between the level of the free surface of the metal in the mold and the level downstream of it in the direction of extraction. of the product, where the entire section of the cast product is solidified (closing of the solidification well).
  • the latter are arranged in a staggered configuration on either side of the two large faces of the slab.
  • the electromagnetic inductor closest to the ingot mold is placed on the upper surface of the slab, that is to say facing the large face placed opposite the center of curvature of the machine. continuous casting.
  • the invention consists, in its fundamental features, in distributing the electromagnetic stirring energy transmitted to the cast metal over the major part of the metallurgical height so as to create convective movements which s '' establish in almost all of the solidification well.
  • the portion of the metallurgical height to be subjected to electromagnetic stirring in accordance with the invention lies between an upper limit, approximately 3 to 4 meters below the free surface of the metal in the mold, and a lower limit which can be situated approximately 2 or 3 meters from the closing point of the solidification well.
  • the action of the magnetic field closest to the ingot mold is located approximately 5 to 7 meters below the free surface of the liquid metal, and the action of the last field is located magnetic in the vicinity or bottom or solidification well, at a distance of about 4 to 5 meters above said bottom.
  • the average distance separating a direct entrainment zone from a recirculation zone depends first of all on the electromagnetic force to which the liquid metal is subjected, that is to say essentially on the intensity of the magnetic field. acting on the metal, since the sliding speed of the field (ie frequency of the electric current in the inductor) is necessarily low, around 1 to 5 Hz approximately, to limit the weakening of the field between the active surface of the inductor and liquid metal.
  • electromagnetic inductors compatible with a continuous slab casting installation under normal operating conditions make it possible to deliver magnetic fields which are strong enough for the difference between the direct entrainment zone of the liquid metal and the recirculation zone is around 2 meters approximately, or even beyond.
  • the depth at which these different negative segregation zones are located in the product relative to its surface depends on the local operating conditions of the casting machine and in particular on the initial overheating of the metal feeding the ingot mold, the extraction speed slab and speed of solidification of the product, that is to say the adjustment of the cooling system. Knowledge of these various parameters therefore makes it possible to easily link the depth of localization of negative segregation zones to the levels on the metallurgical height where the direct circulation and recirculation movements of liquid metal take place under the action of magnetic fields.
  • the upper and lower limit levels defining the portion of the metallurgical height subject to stirring according to the invention make it possible to approach fairly finely, in each case, the upper and lower limit levels defining the portion of the metallurgical height subject to stirring according to the invention.
  • this can range from approximately 0.7 meters / minute to more than 3 meters / minute, that is to say - say vary in a ratio of 1 to 5 between different installations, or flowing different steel grades.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 There is shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 1 and 2, a mold 1, a nozzle 2 supplying the mold with liquid metal, the slab 3 during casting and having a solidified outer layer 4 and a core in the liquid state 5.
  • the line plotted at 6 defines the closure of the solidification well by joining the increasing solidification fronts on the large faces of the product.
  • the metallurgical height "H" that is to say the distance separating the surface of the liquid metal 7 in the mold from the closure 6 of the solidification well, can be read directly in meters in FIG. 1 thanks to the marks placed on the small left side of the slab.
  • the regions of direct action of the sliding magnetic fields have been represented by the two hatched zones 9 and 10.
  • zones define the regions for direct entrainment of the liquid metal whose lines of current were represented by the loops 13 in thick lines in FIG. 1.
  • the directions of sliding of the magnetic fields acting according to the width of the slab are indicated by arrows on the left of the direct drive zones 9 and 10 of the Figure 1 and by the conventional symbols in fig. 2.
  • the minimum configuration representative of the distribution of the action of the magnetic field over the metallurgical height is characterized here, as can be seen, by the installation of a first pair of brewer rollers 11, 11 'on the upper surface of the slab, downstream of the ingot mold, at an average distance of 6 meters from the free surface 7 of the cast metal, and a second pair of rollers 12, 12' offset downward relative to the pair 11, 11 'with an average distance of 1.50 meters. Furthermore, the direction of sliding of the magnetic field created by the pair 11, 11 'is opposite to that created by the pair 12, 12'.
  • this movement in "butterfly wings” comprises, as can be seen, a central body 13 with relatively intense circulation because it is generated by the combined effect of the two direct drive zones 9 and 10 and, on both sides. 'Other of this central body 13, recirculation regions 14, 15, which flourish respectively upwards and downwards to the levels, on the metallurgical height, of 3.5 meters and 10 meters approximately.
  • the metallographic analyzes carried out show that the slabs poured and stirred continuously in the manner which has just been described have a very large equiaxed solidification zone which is already initiated at a skin depth corresponding to the level, over the metallurgical height, about 3.5 meters.
  • these analyzes also show that the core of the slabs is practically free of macrosegregation phenomena.
  • the negative segregation ring corresponding to the low recirculation region 15 is not observable on the metallographic section, since we are located at this level in a region where the proportion of solid in the liquid is very important and therefore forms a rigid skeleton and where, consequently, the sweeping of the solidification front by the forced convection movements of the liquid metal, responsible for the formation negative segregation zone, no longer operates in this respect significantly.
  • the staggered arrangement of the mixing inductors defining the direct drive zones is justified if the number of available inductors is limited. If not, it is quite possible to couple the inductors next to each other at the level of the direct drive zones, the important thing in this case being understood that the magnetic fields created by the matched inductors at the level of a determined direct drive zone in the same way.
  • the inducing units paired on the same face of the slab such as 11, 11 ′ to 12, 12 ′ and / or paired at the same level on the two faces opposite, constitute one and the same inductor, because they are intended to produce one and the same direct entrainment zone of the liquid metal.
  • the direction of sliding of the magnetic field is uniform for these inducing units.

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EP83401148A 1982-06-18 1983-06-07 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum elektromagnetischen Rühren stranggegossener Brammen, insbesondere aus Stahl Expired - Lifetime EP0097561B2 (de)

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FR8210844A FR2528739B1 (fr) 1982-06-18 1982-06-18 Procede et installation de brassage electromagnetique de brames metalliques, notamment d'acier, coulees en continu
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