US20110308289A1 - Process and related plant for producing steel strips with solution of continuity - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a process and related plant for the manufacturing of steel strips.
- a thin slab 2 is produced at the outlet thereof having thickness from 45 to 110 mm and a typical speed of 5 m/min.
- the slab is cut by means of a shear 3 at a typical length of 40 m, anyway depending on its thickness, on its width and on the weight of the desired final strip coil.
- the thin slab, so cut down into pieces 4 enters a tunnel furnace 5 , whose purpose is to homogenize the temperature especially throughout the transverse cross-section, from the external surface to the core, then passes through a descaler 8 before entering the finishing rolling mill 9 comprising, in the example shown, six stands 9 . 1 - 9 . 6 . After the rolling, from which it comes out on a cooling roller table 15 , it goes to the final coiling by means of one or two reels 16 in order to form the desired coil.
- the tunnel furnace 5 is characterized, as it is known, by a length of about 200 m and by a typical residence time of the slab inside thereof comprised between 20 and 40 min at a speed as indicated above.
- a continuous casting speed higher than 5 m/min requires a tunnel furnace length even greater than 200 m in order to heat the slab and make its temperature uniform.
- the tunnel furnace should have a length of about 300 m if maintaining a residence time of the slab in the furnace greater than 40 min is not desired.
- FIG. 1 shows three slabs 4 , 4 . 1 and 4 . 2 inside the furnace 5 , among which the first one is still connected to the continuous casting before being cut by the shear 3 , the second one is free inside the furnace, ready to be rolled and the third one is already drawn by the finishing rolling mill 9 through the descaler 8 .
- the virtual profiles of two additional slabs 4 . 3 and 4 . 4 are further represented by a dotted line, which might find a place inside the furnace 5 without having to stop the continuous casting in case of jammings in the rolling mill or of replacement operations of the rolls, if these problems can be solved in a time lower than 20 min.
- the transverse temperature profile of the slab, immediately upstream of the first rolling stand, has been represented by the detail marked by reference number 7 .
- the diagram of FIG. 1 a further shows that a slab with a average temperature of 1000° C. at the inlet of the finishing rolling mill requires a pressure or “flow stress” Kf on the material equal to 100 N/mm 2 , whereas a temperature of 800° C., in the case of low carbon steel, involves a pressure Kf of about 150 N/mm 2 .
- the temperature profile of the slab at the inlet of the finishing rolling mill is substantially homogeneous, as shown by the slightly convex curve representing it from a minimum of about 990° C. at the ends, corresponding to the surface temperature, to a maximum of 1010° C. at the center zone, corresponding to the core of the slab, from which comes the previously indicated value of about 1000° C. for the average temperature.
- the product at the outlet of the continuous casting 2 having a temperature profile as shown in the diagram of detail 6 , relative to a slab cross-section at the inlet of the furnace 5 , i.e. with a surface temperature of about 1100° C. and of about 1250° C. at the core (i.e. the apex of the diagram), should undergo a process of complete temperature homogenization.
- the trend has always been to homogenize such temperature as much as possible, especially throughout the cross-section of the slab, before entering the finishing rolling mill.
- the temperature uniformity characteristic of the slabs does not allow building plants with the high casting speeds, which would be theoretically possible to achieve (up to values of 12 m/min due to the present technology development), and thereby with very high productivities, due to the inadmissible length the furnace should have.
- furnaces of reduced length between continuous casting and rolling mill in order to obtain space saving and reduction of investments, resulting in a higher average temperature of the product, involving a lower total power of the stands for the same strip thickness, as highlighted in the diagram of FIG. 1 a already mentioned.
- the cast product shows a sufficiently high “mass flow” value (i.e. the amount of steel flowing in the time unit at the outlet of the continuous casting), with an outlet speed >5 m/min after having undergone a process of liquid core reduction or “soft reduction,” in particular according to the teachings of EP 0603330 in the name of the same applicant, in order to guarantee the so-called “central sanity” characteristic of the cast slab and to have a higher temperature at the core, and thereby also a higher average temperature in the rolling step.
- mass flow i.e. the amount of steel flowing in the time unit at the outlet of the continuous casting
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a process of the above-mentioned type being able to achieve, with a limited furnace length, very high productivities as a consequence of a high casting speed.
- the present invention relates to a plant for production of steel strips from thin slabs having thickness comprised between 45 and 110 mm coming from continuous casting.
- the plant comprises a shear cutting a casting product, which is formed with a solution of continuity, into the slabs, a multiple stand finishing rolling mill located downstream of the shear with a distance between the outlet of the continuous casting and the inlet to the rolling mill being not greater than 100 m, at least one heating furnace located downstream of the shear and upstream of the multiple stand finishing rolling mill, and a descaler arranged between the at least one furnace and the rolling mill.
- One of the at least one furnace is an induction furnace which has a sufficiently low working frequency to heat a core of the slab and to substantially maintain a same temperature difference between an inside and an outside of the slab from an end of the induction furnace to an inlet of a first rolling stand of the finishing rolling mill. Also, an average temperature of each slab is higher than a surface temperature of each slab, which is equal to or higher than 1100° C., and the average temperature at the core is at least 100° C. higher than the surface temperature of each slab.
- the plant can further comprise a second furnace, which is a tunnel furnace that is heated by gas.
- the plant can have only one furnace and the furnace is an induction type furnace. Further, the plant can have intermediate cooling and/or heating means among the rolling mill stands.
- the plant can further comprise a temperature maintaining tunnel in combination with the induction furnace, upstream and/or downstream thereof, which have a length to keep a total distance between the continuous casting and the finishing rolling mill not greater than 100 m, suitable for limiting the thermal losses.
- the tunnel can be formed by roller tables that have insulating panels.
- the tunnel can also have gas burners and/or electrical resistors.
- the induction furnace can be placed immediately upstream of the descaler. Alternatively, the induction furnace can be placed immediately downstream of the shear.
- FIG. 1 schematically shows a plant for the manufacturing of steel strips from continuous casting, with solution of continuity, according to the prior art, as already described above;
- FIG. 1 a is a diagram showing the trend of the rolling pressure required as a function of the average temperature of the material to be rolled;
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of a plant according to the present invention, similar to that of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of a variant of plant according to the present invention, comprising an induction furnace.
- FIG. 2 an example of plant carrying out the process according to the present invention is schematically shown starting from a thin slab 22 at the outlet of a continuous casting zone schematically represented in its whole as 21 and comprising, as it is known, a mould, as well as possible suitable means to accomplish a liquid core reduction or “soft reduction.”
- the thin slab 22 comes out from the continuous casting 21 with the same thickness and speed values already indicated for the slab 2 of the plant of FIG. 1 relating to the prior art, i.e. with a thickness between 45 and 110 mm, e.g. 60 mm, a speed equal to 5 m/min and a width equal to 1600 mm, that is to say with a high “mass flow” as defined above.
- the temperature profile in the zone upstream of the furnace 25 (here not shown) is still the one shown in detail 6 of FIG. 1 , with a surface temperature of about 1100° C. and of about 1250° C. at the core (diagram apex).
- the slab is still cut down in pieces, typically having a length of 40 m, by means of the shear 3 , according to the weight of the final coil desired, and enters a traditional tunnel furnace 25 (gas heated), but being of a limited length, having the purpose of maintaining the thin slab 24 in temperature by heating the same. Therefrom it passes, through the descaler 8 , into a finishing rolling mill 29 from which comes out, upon its rolling, on a roller table 15 in order to be coiled by means of one or two reels 16 , as already seen according to FIG. 1 .
- the tunnel furnace 25 here shows a length that must be as reduced as possible and anyway not greater than 100 m, so that the residence time of the thin slab inside thereof be as short as possible.
- This is for the purpose of maintaining a profile with a “triangular” trend at the outlet thereof, as indicated in detail 27 , being characterized by a surface temperature of about 1100° C., a temperature at the slab core of about 1200° C. and a average temperature of about 1150° C.
- the resulting trend is thereby substantially less homogeneous than the profile shown in detail 7 of FIG. 1 , for the same feeding speed.
- Each slab, after the shear 3 cut, is accelerated and transferred to the central part of the furnace until it reaches the entering speed of the finishing rolling mill, equal to about 15-20 m/min, in order to reduce the residence time in the furnace itself as much as possible, which will be able to be even lower than 10 minutes instead of the 20-40 min foreseen for a plant according to the prior art shown in FIG. 1 .
- the distance between the outlet from the continuous casting 21 and the finishing rolling mill 29 will not be greater than about 100 m, with the further consequent advantage of having a more compact plant requiring a reduced space also with high speeds at the outlet of the continuous casting.
- the average temperature of the product will be higher than the surface temperature, being higher of at least 100° C. at the core with respect to the external surface. From the diagram of FIG. 1 a it is clear that a Kf value of about 70 N/mm 2 corresponds to a average temperature of 1150° C., instead of 100 N/mm 2 as it happens with the average temperature of 1000° C. resulting from the plant of FIG. 1 .
- the rolling mill stands 29 have been represented in a number of five against the six ones of the rolling mill 9 of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the present invention, wherein the tunnel furnace 25 , typically gas heated, is substantially replaced by an induction furnace 35 .
- induction furnaces have been used in order to heat a thin slab, previously rolled to a thickness of about 15 mm in a roughing rolling mill, and make it suitable for the subsequent finishing rolling step.
- the working frequency of the furnace was generally chosen sufficiently high so that the depth of penetration of thermal energy, inversely proportional to frequency, were such to mainly heat the surface layer characterized by a lower temperature.
- the induction furnace 35 of FIG. 3 is used with a sufficiently low working frequency so that the heating action, being performed in a nearly homogeneous way throughout the whole transverse cross-section of the slab to the core, substantially maintains the same trend as at the inlet thereof until the end, such trend being shown by the diagram of detail 6 in FIG. 1 .
- the slab 34 to be cut by means of shear 3 from slab 32 coming out from the continuous casting 31 , has a surface temperature of 1100° C. and of 1250° C. at the core, at the outlet of said furnace it will be able to have also a surface temperature of 1150° C. or higher and of about 1250° C. at the core, not only maintaining a sensible temperature difference inside-outside, but also increasing the average temperature of the slab under rolling, with all the advantages previously shown with reference to FIG. 1 a.
- the thin slab 32 coming from the continuous casting 31 passes anyway, after the shear 3 , into a temperature maintaining and possible heating tunnel 36 , which limits thermal losses.
- the induction furnace 35 could also be placed before said tunnel 36 , in such a way to increase the slab temperature while this is still connected to the continuous casting, for the purpose of limiting its power dimensioning.
- the slab cut down piece 34 is accelerated, as already said for slab 24 with reference to FIG. 2 , in order to reach the entering speed of the rolling mill 39 , equal to about 15-20 m/min.
- the tunnel 36 comprising the roller tables between continuous casting and rolling mill, upstream and/or downstream of the furnace 35 , is formed of insulating panels, which might be provided with gas burners and/or resistors in order to further reduce the heat losses.
- Cooling systems or possibly intermediate heating systems, not shown in the drawing, can be provided for among the stands of the finishing rolling mill 29 or 39 , being inserted between one stand and another according to the rolling speed and to the steel type to be rolled.
- the present invention can also be used in order to carry out processes and related plants with two casting lines supplying the same rolling mill 29 or 39 .
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A process for manufacturing steel strips with solution of continuity. The steps of the process include a continuous casting step for thin slabs with a high “mass flow,” a shearing step and subsequent heating in furnace, followed by a multiple stand rolling step with the average temperature of the product at the inlet of the rolling mill being higher than the surface temperature, which is equal to at least 1100° C., lower than that measured in the inner central area by about 100° C. A plant is also described for the accomplishment of such process where at the inlet of a furnace, possibly of the induction type, combined with a temperature maintaining tunnel a shear is provided for cutting into pieces a slab coming from continuous casting with the distance between the outlet of the continuous casting and the inlet into the finishing rolling mill is not greater than 100 m.
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- This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/102,493, filed Apr. 14, 2008, which in turn claims priority of PCT Application Serial No. PCT/IT2005/000754 filed Dec. 22, 2005. The disclosures of these applications are incorporated herein by reference.
- The present invention relates to a process and related plant for the manufacturing of steel strips.
- In the steel industry it is known the need, being however present in every industrial field, for using manufacturing methods involving lower investment and production costs. It is known as well that in the last years manufacturing methods based on the so-called “thin slab” technologies have had a remarkable development and success in this direction of cost reduction, above all under the energetic aspect. Three fundamental types of manufacturing processes and related plants, accomplishing such a technology, can be distinguished, namely a first type which does not provide for solution of continuity between the continuous casting step and the rolling one, a second type wherein said two steps are separated, thereby with a solution of continuity providing for the use of a Steckel rolling mill, and finally a third type, again with solution of continuity, as shown in
FIG. 1 , which represents the closest prior art to the present invention, as is accomplished, for example, in the so-called CSP plant of the American Company Nucor Steel in Crawfordsville, Ind. (US). - With reference to said
FIG. 1 , wherein the continuous casting machine is schematically represented as 1, athin slab 2 is produced at the outlet thereof having thickness from 45 to 110 mm and a typical speed of 5 m/min. The slab is cut by means of ashear 3 at a typical length of 40 m, anyway depending on its thickness, on its width and on the weight of the desired final strip coil. The thin slab, so cut down intopieces 4, enters atunnel furnace 5, whose purpose is to homogenize the temperature especially throughout the transverse cross-section, from the external surface to the core, then passes through adescaler 8 before entering the finishing rollingmill 9 comprising, in the example shown, six stands 9.1-9.6. After the rolling, from which it comes out on a cooling roller table 15, it goes to the final coiling by means of one or tworeels 16 in order to form the desired coil. - It should be noted that the
tunnel furnace 5 is characterized, as it is known, by a length of about 200 m and by a typical residence time of the slab inside thereof comprised between 20 and 40 min at a speed as indicated above. Of course, a continuous casting speed higher than 5 m/min requires a tunnel furnace length even greater than 200 m in order to heat the slab and make its temperature uniform. For example, with a speed of 7 m/min at the outlet of the continuous casting, the tunnel furnace should have a length of about 300 m if maintaining a residence time of the slab in the furnace greater than 40 min is not desired. By further increasing the casting speed, still for the same residence duration in the furnace, this should have an even greater length, hardly feasible both from a technical and an economical point of view. - Still with reference to
FIG. 1 , it shows threeslabs 4, 4.1 and 4.2 inside thefurnace 5, among which the first one is still connected to the continuous casting before being cut by theshear 3, the second one is free inside the furnace, ready to be rolled and the third one is already drawn by the finishing rollingmill 9 through thedescaler 8. The virtual profiles of two additional slabs 4.3 and 4.4 are further represented by a dotted line, which might find a place inside thefurnace 5 without having to stop the continuous casting in case of jammings in the rolling mill or of replacement operations of the rolls, if these problems can be solved in a time lower than 20 min. - The transverse temperature profile of the slab, immediately upstream of the first rolling stand, has been represented by the detail marked by
reference number 7. The diagram ofFIG. 1 a further shows that a slab with a average temperature of 1000° C. at the inlet of the finishing rolling mill requires a pressure or “flow stress” Kf on the material equal to 100 N/mm2, whereas a temperature of 800° C., in the case of low carbon steel, involves a pressure Kf of about 150 N/mm2. As it can be noted indetail 7, the temperature profile of the slab at the inlet of the finishing rolling mill is substantially homogeneous, as shown by the slightly convex curve representing it from a minimum of about 990° C. at the ends, corresponding to the surface temperature, to a maximum of 1010° C. at the center zone, corresponding to the core of the slab, from which comes the previously indicated value of about 1000° C. for the average temperature. - In fact, according to the related prior art of this type of technology, it has been so far believed that the product at the outlet of the
continuous casting 2, having a temperature profile as shown in the diagram ofdetail 6, relative to a slab cross-section at the inlet of thefurnace 5, i.e. with a surface temperature of about 1100° C. and of about 1250° C. at the core (i.e. the apex of the diagram), should undergo a process of complete temperature homogenization. The trend has always been to homogenize such temperature as much as possible, especially throughout the cross-section of the slab, before entering the finishing rolling mill. In fact, it has been always thought that by making the temperature uniform between surface and core of the product, the advantage of a homogeneous fiber elongation could be obtained, in order to show the same strain resistance by substantially having the same temperature. On the basis of such a constant technical prejudice, it has been always tried to have a temperature difference being lower than 20° C. between surface and core of the product, as above indicated with reference todetail 7, in order to have a homogeneous fiber elongation, until now considered necessary for the achievement of a good quality of the final product. - On the other hand, as seen above, the temperature uniformity characteristic of the slabs does not allow building plants with the high casting speeds, which would be theoretically possible to achieve (up to values of 12 m/min due to the present technology development), and thereby with very high productivities, due to the inadmissible length the furnace should have.
- On the other hand it would be desirable to have furnaces of reduced length between continuous casting and rolling mill in order to obtain space saving and reduction of investments, resulting in a higher average temperature of the product, involving a lower total power of the stands for the same strip thickness, as highlighted in the diagram of
FIG. 1 a already mentioned. - In fact, thus overcoming a widespread prejudice of the prior art, it has been found that with a temperature in the middle of the cross-section of the slab being higher than 100-200° C. with respect to the surface temperature, maintained at about 1100° C., a lower rolling pressure Kf is required in order to obtain the same final thickness of the strip, because the average rolling temperature is increased, without otherwise worsening the product quality.
- It has been also found that such temperature conditions are not prejudicial for the final rolling product quality, when the following conditions are met: the cast product shows a sufficiently high “mass flow” value (i.e. the amount of steel flowing in the time unit at the outlet of the continuous casting), with an outlet speed >5 m/min after having undergone a process of liquid core reduction or “soft reduction,” in particular according to the teachings of EP 0603330 in the name of the same applicant, in order to guarantee the so-called “central sanity” characteristic of the cast slab and to have a higher temperature at the core, and thereby also a higher average temperature in the rolling step.
- It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a process for the manufacturing of steel strips with solution of continuity allowing the maximum possible reduction with the minimum separating strength and therefore requiring a reduced total power of the rolling stands with a consequent energy saving for a given strip thickness at the outlet of the rolling mill.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a process of the above-mentioned type being able to achieve, with a limited furnace length, very high productivities as a consequence of a high casting speed.
- Broadly, the present invention relates to a plant for production of steel strips from thin slabs having thickness comprised between 45 and 110 mm coming from continuous casting. The plant comprises a shear cutting a casting product, which is formed with a solution of continuity, into the slabs, a multiple stand finishing rolling mill located downstream of the shear with a distance between the outlet of the continuous casting and the inlet to the rolling mill being not greater than 100 m, at least one heating furnace located downstream of the shear and upstream of the multiple stand finishing rolling mill, and a descaler arranged between the at least one furnace and the rolling mill. One of the at least one furnace is an induction furnace which has a sufficiently low working frequency to heat a core of the slab and to substantially maintain a same temperature difference between an inside and an outside of the slab from an end of the induction furnace to an inlet of a first rolling stand of the finishing rolling mill. Also, an average temperature of each slab is higher than a surface temperature of each slab, which is equal to or higher than 1100° C., and the average temperature at the core is at least 100° C. higher than the surface temperature of each slab.
- The plant can further comprise a second furnace, which is a tunnel furnace that is heated by gas.
- Alternatively, the plant can have only one furnace and the furnace is an induction type furnace. Further, the plant can have intermediate cooling and/or heating means among the rolling mill stands.
- The plant can further comprise a temperature maintaining tunnel in combination with the induction furnace, upstream and/or downstream thereof, which have a length to keep a total distance between the continuous casting and the finishing rolling mill not greater than 100 m, suitable for limiting the thermal losses. The tunnel can be formed by roller tables that have insulating panels. The tunnel can also have gas burners and/or electrical resistors. Moreover, the induction furnace can be placed immediately upstream of the descaler. Alternatively, the induction furnace can be placed immediately downstream of the shear.
- Characteristics of the present invention will become evident from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, given by way of non-limiting example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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FIG. 1 schematically shows a plant for the manufacturing of steel strips from continuous casting, with solution of continuity, according to the prior art, as already described above; -
FIG. 1 a is a diagram showing the trend of the rolling pressure required as a function of the average temperature of the material to be rolled; -
FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of a plant according to the present invention, similar to that ofFIG. 1 ; and -
FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of a variant of plant according to the present invention, comprising an induction furnace. - With reference to
FIG. 2 , an example of plant carrying out the process according to the present invention is schematically shown starting from athin slab 22 at the outlet of a continuous casting zone schematically represented in its whole as 21 and comprising, as it is known, a mould, as well as possible suitable means to accomplish a liquid core reduction or “soft reduction.” Thethin slab 22 comes out from thecontinuous casting 21 with the same thickness and speed values already indicated for theslab 2 of the plant ofFIG. 1 relating to the prior art, i.e. with a thickness between 45 and 110 mm, e.g. 60 mm, a speed equal to 5 m/min and a width equal to 1600 mm, that is to say with a high “mass flow” as defined above. The temperature profile in the zone upstream of the furnace 25 (here not shown) is still the one shown indetail 6 ofFIG. 1 , with a surface temperature of about 1100° C. and of about 1250° C. at the core (diagram apex). - The slab is still cut down in pieces, typically having a length of 40 m, by means of the
shear 3, according to the weight of the final coil desired, and enters a traditional tunnel furnace 25 (gas heated), but being of a limited length, having the purpose of maintaining thethin slab 24 in temperature by heating the same. Therefrom it passes, through thedescaler 8, into a finishing rollingmill 29 from which comes out, upon its rolling, on a roller table 15 in order to be coiled by means of one or tworeels 16, as already seen according toFIG. 1 . - Differing from the plant of
FIG. 1 , thetunnel furnace 25 here shows a length that must be as reduced as possible and anyway not greater than 100 m, so that the residence time of the thin slab inside thereof be as short as possible. This is for the purpose of maintaining a profile with a “triangular” trend at the outlet thereof, as indicated indetail 27, being characterized by a surface temperature of about 1100° C., a temperature at the slab core of about 1200° C. and a average temperature of about 1150° C. The resulting trend is thereby substantially less homogeneous than the profile shown indetail 7 ofFIG. 1 , for the same feeding speed. - Inside
furnace 25 twoslabs 24 and 24.2 are represented of which the first one is still connected to the continuous casting before being cut byshear 3 and the second one is already drawn by the finishing rollingmill 29 through thedescaler 8, and thereby is already in the rolling step. The dotted line 24.1, intermediate between the two slabs, instead represents the space available for a further slab, serving as a “lung” in case of jamming of the rolling mill, if the slab thickness at the outlet and the weight of the coil desired allow to have slabs of length <30 m, given the above-mentioned limits of overall furnace length. Each slab, after theshear 3 cut, is accelerated and transferred to the central part of the furnace until it reaches the entering speed of the finishing rolling mill, equal to about 15-20 m/min, in order to reduce the residence time in the furnace itself as much as possible, which will be able to be even lower than 10 minutes instead of the 20-40 min foreseen for a plant according to the prior art shown inFIG. 1 . - As previously stated, it should be noted that anyway the distance between the outlet from the
continuous casting 21 and thefinishing rolling mill 29 will not be greater than about 100 m, with the further consequent advantage of having a more compact plant requiring a reduced space also with high speeds at the outlet of the continuous casting. In such a way the average temperature of the product will be higher than the surface temperature, being higher of at least 100° C. at the core with respect to the external surface. From the diagram ofFIG. 1 a it is clear that a Kf value of about 70 N/mm2 corresponds to a average temperature of 1150° C., instead of 100 N/mm2 as it happens with the average temperature of 1000° C. resulting from the plant ofFIG. 1 . - It should be noted that, by using the above-mentioned higher temperature of the “mass flow,” greater reductions can be achieved, in particular in the first rolling stands, allowing to obtain thinner thicknesses with the same or a lower number of stands with respect to the prior art. In
FIG. 2 , for example, the rolling mill stands 29 have been represented in a number of five against the six ones of the rollingmill 9 ofFIG. 1 . -
FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the present invention, wherein thetunnel furnace 25, typically gas heated, is substantially replaced by aninduction furnace 35. In the prior art (see for example EP 0415987 in the name of the same applicant) induction furnaces have been used in order to heat a thin slab, previously rolled to a thickness of about 15 mm in a roughing rolling mill, and make it suitable for the subsequent finishing rolling step. As the slab core was anyway hotter than the surface, the working frequency of the furnace was generally chosen sufficiently high so that the depth of penetration of thermal energy, inversely proportional to frequency, were such to mainly heat the surface layer characterized by a lower temperature. - On the contrary, according to the present invention, the
induction furnace 35 ofFIG. 3 is used with a sufficiently low working frequency so that the heating action, being performed in a nearly homogeneous way throughout the whole transverse cross-section of the slab to the core, substantially maintains the same trend as at the inlet thereof until the end, such trend being shown by the diagram ofdetail 6 inFIG. 1 . Thus, if at the inlet offurnace 35 theslab 34, to be cut by means ofshear 3 fromslab 32 coming out from thecontinuous casting 31, has a surface temperature of 1100° C. and of 1250° C. at the core, at the outlet of said furnace it will be able to have also a surface temperature of 1150° C. or higher and of about 1250° C. at the core, not only maintaining a sensible temperature difference inside-outside, but also increasing the average temperature of the slab under rolling, with all the advantages previously shown with reference toFIG. 1 a. - Before entering the
induction furnace 35, thethin slab 32 coming from thecontinuous casting 31, passes anyway, after theshear 3, into a temperature maintaining andpossible heating tunnel 36, which limits thermal losses. - It should be noted that the
induction furnace 35, differently from what is shown inFIG. 3 , could also be placed before saidtunnel 36, in such a way to increase the slab temperature while this is still connected to the continuous casting, for the purpose of limiting its power dimensioning. After the cut byshear 3, the slab cut downpiece 34 is accelerated, as already said forslab 24 with reference toFIG. 2 , in order to reach the entering speed of the rollingmill 39, equal to about 15-20 m/min. Thetunnel 36 comprising the roller tables between continuous casting and rolling mill, upstream and/or downstream of thefurnace 35, is formed of insulating panels, which might be provided with gas burners and/or resistors in order to further reduce the heat losses. To sum up, given the lower length of an induction furnace with respect to a traditional one, it can be said that also in this case, taken intoaccount tunnel 36, being of a reduced length with respect tofurnace 25 ofFIG. 2 , the total distance between the outlet of the continuous casting and the rolling mill inlet is again not greater than 100 m. - Cooling systems or possibly intermediate heating systems, not shown in the drawing, can be provided for among the stands of the
finishing rolling mill - Finally, the present invention can also be used in order to carry out processes and related plants with two casting lines supplying the
same rolling mill
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1. A plant for production of steel strips from thin slabs having thickness comprised between 45 and 110 mm coming from continuous casting, comprising:
a shear cutting a casting product, which is formed with a solution of continuity, into the slabs;
a multiple stand finishing rolling mill located downstream of the shear, a distance between an outlet of the continuous casting and an inlet to the rolling mill being not greater than 100 m;
at least one heating furnace located downstream of the shear and upstream of the multiple stand finishing rolling mill; and
a descaler arranged between the at least one furnace and the rolling mill,
wherein one of the at least one furnace is an induction furnace having a sufficiently low working frequency to heat a core of the slab and to substantially maintain a same temperature difference between an inside and an outside of the slab from an end of the induction furnace to an inlet of a first rolling stand of the finishing rolling mill, and
whereby an average temperature of each slab is higher than a surface temperature of each slab, which is equal to or higher than 1100° C. and the average temperature at the core is at least 100° C. higher than the surface temperature of each slab.
2. The plant according to claim 1 , further comprising a second furnace, which is a tunnel furnace that is heated by gas.
3. The plant according to claim 1 , wherein the plant has only one furnace and the furnace is an induction type furnace.
4. The plant according to claim 1 , further comprising a temperature maintaining tunnel in combination with the induction furnace, upstream and/or downstream thereof, having a length to keep a total distance between the continuous casting and the finishing rolling mill not greater than 100 m, suitable for limiting the thermal losses.
5. The plant according to claim 4 , wherein the tunnel is formed by roller tables having insulating panels.
6. The plant according to claim 4 , wherein the tunnel has gas burners and/or electrical resistors.
7. The plant according to claim 4 , wherein the induction furnace is placed immediately upstream of the descaler.
8. The plant according to claim 4 , wherein the induction furnace is placed immediately downstream of the shear.
9. The plant according to claim 3 , further comprising intermediate cooling and/or heating means among the rolling mill stands.
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