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Sunflag Iron & Steel Company Limited: Continuous Casting
Sunflag Iron & Steel Company Limited: Continuous Casting
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CONTINUOUS CASTING
Release Date :
28/09/2018
Revision -2
CONTINUOUS CASTING PROCESS
Continuous casting of steel is entering a new era of
steel development process invented in the 1950s , with
respect to its increasing application in the production process.
Continuous casting of steel is process in which liquid steel is
continuously solidified in mould into multiple length.
TYPES OF CASTING
2. OPEN CASTING :-
During the open stream casting ,the liquid metal stream falls directly from
the collector nozzle of ladle to the tundish and from tundish to the mould.
The unprotected liquid steel stream picks up o2 and N2 from the
atmosphere which gets entrapped into the steel during casting.
MAIN PARTS OF CASTING
MACHINE
1. TURRET.
2. LADDLE.
3. TUNDISH.
4. TUNDISH CAR.
5. PRIMARY COOLING .
6. MOULD OSCILLATION UNIT.
7. SECONDARY COOLING,
8. APRON CHAMBER
9. WITHDRAWAL UNIT.
10. GEGA CUTTER.
11. T.O.C.B
12. BILLET/BLOOM MARKING
MACHINE
DEFECTS IN CASTING
Continuous casting of steel is process in which liquid steel is forced to
solidified in mould and apron chamber with primary and secondary
water as a medium.
Solidification takes place due to conduction, convection and radiation
hence lot of stresses are developed during casting at various
stages. More over during unbending of solidified steel it undergoes
strain at the point of unbending in the withdrawal unit. These factors
leads to casting defects
Defects are mainly classified depending on location, nature and
source of defect.
Based upon nature of defects , these are divided into three main
groups,
Internal defects
DEFECTS IN CASTING
Shape related defects
Rohmboidity ,
Bulging,
Bend
RHOMBOIDITY
A cast section that becomes a rhombus(An equilateral but not a right angled
parallelogram)is
called rhomboidity.
Transverse Cracks
Longitudinal Cracks
Oscillation Mark
Depression
Slag patch
Joint
Blow holes,
TRANSVERSE CRACKS
Transverse Cracks are defined as transverse or near transverse open crevice, when
concentration of residual stresses exceed.
1. Castability problem, flushing done in 1. Heat making at LHF/VD with proper care
running casting for inclusion floating.
2. AMLC fluctuation 2. Calibration & maintenance of AMLC.
3. Jerking in strand due to withdrawal. 3. Maintenance of withdrawal roller bearing.
BLOWHOLES
Blow Holes-Evolution of gas during solidification of steel. Entrapment of gas
produces blow holes in the billet.