About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Cast Shop Technology
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Presentation Title |
Continuous Monitoring of Butt Curl Development During DC Casting – Development and Application |
Author(s) |
Gerd-Ulrich Gruen, Werner Ewald Droste, Daniel Krings, Mark Badowski, Markus Hagen |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Werner Ewald Droste |
Abstract Scope |
Cast start situations for rolling ingot DC casting can represent severe risks for cast shop workers due to unforeseen development of butt curl of individual ingots. Hydro’s R&D center Bonn has the ambition to provide procedures and related tools helping to preventing these risks.
In order to react on the critical development of butt curl of individual ingots in a casting unit a monitoring of relative motion of the bottom side of the solidifying ingot to the starter block is required. This means a continuous distance measurement under extremely harsh conditions. Possible solutions have to be watertight, heat resistant, need wireless data transmission capabilities and implementation and preparation of the system have to be user-friendly.
Current status of the development includes real-time visualization and data storage in the process control system.
This paper describes the technological approach, the testing under plant conditions and application examples of the system. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Light Metals |