Napat Panupichit.. Effect of billet casting speed from continuous casting machine on the severity of macro-segregation. Master's Degree(Materials and Production Engineering (International Program)). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 2011.
Effect of billet casting speed from continuous casting machine on the severity of macro-segregation
Abstract:
Continuous casting has come to be the most important equipment for steel making process from several decades because of the economic advantage resulting from increasing yields, substantial improvement of product quality and elimination of several processing steps. Even this process was developed in recent years with substantial improvement of efficiency and quality of products but there still be some problems existing in the casting such as inclusions, cracks, micro and macro segregations etc. The macro segregation is the problem which is normally found in the continuous casting process. The high quality steel can not accept this kind of problem because the central defects still remain and considerably impair the properties of steel. In the solidifying of liquid steel, segregation is a phenomenal and always takes place in casting steel but it is normally in micro scale. The enriched liquid steel from last solidification process together with unfavorable movement (of molten steel and some cases together of solids) will generate segregation in macro scale. Although, many major process improvements have been invented mainly to improve this problem such as Electromagnetic stirring and Soft reduction but a large number of Thai establishments in the field still cannot afford them. Some continuous casters may not have electromagnetic stirring and also soft reduction. So they have to find other methods to mitigate the problem which also not considerably affects to reduce their productivity. Continuous casting has come to be the most important equipment for steel making process from several decades because of the economic advantage resulting from increasing yields, substantial improvement of product quality and elimination of several processing steps. Even this process was developed in recent years with substantial improvement of efficiency and quality of products but there still be some problems existing in the casting such as inclusions, cracks, micro and macro segregations etc. The macro segregation is the problem which is normally found in the continuous casting process. The high quality steel cannot accept this kind of problem because the central defects still remain and considerably impair the properties of steel. In the solidifying of liquid steel, segregation is a phenomenal and always takes place in casting steel but it is normally in micro scale. The enriched liquid steel from last solidification process together with unfavorable movement (of molten steel and some cases together of solids) will generate segregation in macro scale. Although, many major process improvements have been invented mainly to improve this problem such as Electromagnetic stirring and Soft reduction but a large number of Thai establishments in the field still cannot afford them. Some continuous casters may not have electromagnetic stirring and also soft reduction. So they have to find other methods to mitigate the problem which also not considerably affects to reduce their productivity. This paper intends to study and measure qualitatively and quantitatively the amount of macro segregation with variation of casting speed started from the mold until the billets are cast to finished product. The experiment will be designed and done in a real continuous casting plant which has no electro magnetic stirring and soft reduction to improve segregation problem. So the study is finally used for considering and predicting the trend of segregation by each casting speed. They can be trade off between the productivity and the required quality level finally