Temperature control method for rolling strip steel in ferrite area
Technical Field
The invention relates to a temperature control method for rolling strip steel in a ferrite area, belonging to the technical field of metal processing.
Background
The ferrite Rolling process (also called Warm Rolling) was developed by the research center of iron and steel in Belgium at the end of the 20 th century 80 s, and aims to produce hot rolled plates with excellent structure and performance which can be directly used or used as a raw material for cold Rolling production. The method for producing the ferrite area hot rolled strip steel has the characteristics of small deformation resistance in the rolling process, easy acid cleaning and clearing, higher elongation, higher deep drawing performance r value and the like, is favorable for producing thin hot rolled strip steel, and improves the surface quality of the strip steel. Compared with the traditional austenite rolling process, the ferrite rolling process can shorten the process flow and reduce the loss of the roller, thereby reducing the heating temperature and the production cost.
However, when ferrite rolling is performed on the conventional strip steel hot continuous rolling production line, because the distance between the heat-insulating cover or the hot coil box and the end-cutting shears on the conventional strip steel hot continuous rolling production line is very short, it is difficult to arrange a cooling device with a slightly longer cooling length, so that the intermediate blank needs to be cooled by air for a longer time between the heat-insulating cover or the hot coil box and the end-cutting shears, and the strip blank can reach the proper temperature before entering the finishing mill group. However, when air cooling is adopted for cooling, the defects of inaccurate temperature control, high energy consumption and large investment before finish rolling exist; in addition, the intermediate slab is thick, which tends to cause non-uniformity in strip temperature, and the time taken for air cooling is long (i.e., the cooling swing time between rough rolling and finish rolling is long), which also reduces the production efficiency.
In order to reduce the production cost and realize stable, continuous and reliable industrial production, various scholars and engineers are continuously making efforts and exploring to find a new technology for ferrite rolling on the traditional strip steel hot continuous rolling production line, so as to achieve the purposes of simplifying the process, reducing the energy consumption and cost, improving the efficiency and the like and promote the industrial application of ferrite rolling.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a method which can improve the production efficiency when ferrite rolling is carried out on the traditional strip steel hot continuous rolling production line and the temperature of a strip blank is accurately controlled before the strip blank enters a finishing mill group.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: a temperature control method for rolling strip steel in a ferrite area is characterized in that a hot coil box or a heat preservation cover is arranged between a roughing mill and a finishing mill group of a hot rolling production line, a first intermediate blank cooling device is arranged at an outlet of the roughing mill, and a second intermediate blank cooling device is arranged at an outlet of the hot coil box or the heat preservation cover; the first and second intermediate blank cooling devices comprise at least 3 pairs of coolers, and each pair of coolers is symmetrically arranged on the intermediate blank to be cooled up and down;
controlling the heating temperature of the steel billet to be 1050-1200 ℃, and controlling the temperature of the intermediate billet after rough rolling to be within the austenite temperature range of steel and Ac3At a temperature of 10 to 40 ℃ above, wherein Ac3Is the end temperature of ferrite transformation to austenite;
the second intermediate billet cooling device adjusts the opening and closing combination and the cooling water flow of each pair of coolers in real time according to the intermediate billet temperature before the inlet of the finishing mill group detected in real time, namely, adjusts the temperature of the intermediate billet by adopting small flow, so that the intermediate billet before the inlet of the finishing mill group is cooled to Ac3fAbove 0-30 ℃ and Ac3fIs ferrite transformation termination temperature.
The inventor carries out intensive research and experiments on the existing process, and the existing process generally adopts the air cooling mode to cool the strip steel for a long time after a roughing mill group, thereby influencing the rolling efficiency. If the water cooling mode is adopted, the distance between the roughing mill and the hot coil box or the heat-insulating cover is short, so the water cooling time is short, the strip steel is still thick after roughing, the temperature return phenomenon occurs after water cooling, and the temperature cannot be accurately controlled. The invention realizes the temperature control of the intermediate billet entering the finishing mill group by adding two intermediate billet cooling devices, wherein the first intermediate billet cooling device u opens all coolers and rapidly cools and reduces the temperature of the intermediate billet by adopting large flow, the head and tail positions of the intermediate billet are changed at the hot coil box to realize the uniform temperature of the intermediate billet, and then the second intermediate billet cooling device accurately adjusts the temperature of the intermediate billet by adopting small flow, thus not only ensuring the accurate temperature control, but also greatly improving the production efficiency compared with the mode of adopting air cooling. The invention solves the problems of inaccurate temperature control of the intermediate billet before finish rolling, non-uniform strip billet temperature and overlong cooling swing time between rough rolling and finish rolling in the prior art, and can be used for producing deep drawing, ultra-deep drawing IF steel, low-carbon aluminum killed steel, medium-carbon steel and the like.
The further improvement of the technical scheme is as follows: the distance between the inlet of the first intermediate blank cooling device and the outlet of the roughing mill is as follows:
wherein v is1Speed of steel throwing for last pass of roughing mill, v0The stable rolling speed of the roughing mill is shown, a is the acceleration of the linear speed of the roller of the roughing mill before steel polishing, and x is a distance design allowance and is between 0 and 10 m.
The reason is that the temperature inside the intermediate billet from the roughing mill is high, and the intermediate billet can return to the surface of the intermediate billet, so that the intermediate billet is conveyed for a certain distance and then cooled, the cooling efficiency can be improved, and the uniformity of the temperature after cooling can be improved.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
1) the invention can adapt to the high-efficiency production in the rolling process of the ferrite area, and the last pass of the roughing mill is subjected to reduced-speed rolling, thereby ensuring the rolling production capacity of the ferrite area.
2) The first intermediate billet cooling device is arranged at a distance behind the roughing mill, so that the surface of the intermediate billet is heated again, the cooling efficiency of the intermediate billet is high, the cooling water consumption of the first intermediate billet cooling device is small after roughing, the speed of the intermediate billet entering a finishing mill group is low, the second intermediate billet cooling device can realize low flow control, and the cooling water consumption and the water supply energy consumption are reduced totally.
3) The invention can improve the control precision of the intermediate billet temperature and the performance uniformity of products by combining a plurality of groups of coolers and the small flow of a single cooler.
4) The invention can reduce the generation of iron scale on the surface of the strip steel in the finish rolling process and improve the surface quality of the strip steel.
5) The invention can be applied to different strip steel continuous rolling production lines, strictly realizes the temperature separation of austenite rolling and ferrite rolling, prevents mixed crystals caused by austenite-ferrite two-phase rolling, optimizes the microstructure and the forming performance of the strip steel and the like.
6) The invention can reduce the rolling pressure in the hot rolling process, and can further reduce the energy consumption in the cold rolling process and save energy through the recrystallization and the grain growth of the strip steel caused by high-temperature coiling waste heat.
7) The method can ensure that the coiling temperature is 10-80 ℃ above the annealing recrystallization temperature, can fully utilize the afterheat after rolling to realize the recovery and growth of ferrite grains, saves subsequent annealing, improves the tissue and mechanical property of the strip steel, and even realizes the replacement of 'hot' for 'cold'.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention.
Reference numerals: the device comprises a roughing mill 3, a first intermediate billet cooling device 4-1, a second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2, a hot coil box 5, a heat preservation cover 6, a crop shear 7, a finish descaling unit 8 and a finishing mill group 9.
Detailed Description
Example one
As shown in fig. 1, IF steel (ultra-low carbon) slabs are selected for the ferrite rolling in the embodiment, and the slab comprises the following components in percentage by weight: less than or equal to 0.01 percent of C, less than or equal to 0.03 percent of Si, less than or equal to 0.2 percent of Mn, less than or equal to 0.02 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.015 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.06 percent of Al, less than or equal to 0.004 percent of N, less than or equal to 0.12 percent of Ti, and the balance of Fe. At a cooling rate of 1-3 ℃/s, the ferrite phase transformation termination temperature Ac3fAt 860 ℃ of austenitized Ac3The temperature is 910 ℃; the annealing recrystallization temperature after cold rolling is more than 660 ℃. The stable rolling speed of the roughing mill is 5.5m/s, the final pass steel throwing speed of the roughing mill is 1.3m/s, and the linear speed of the rollers of the roughing mill is added before steel throwingSpeed of 1m/s2。
In the embodiment, a hot coil box 5 is arranged between a roughing mill 3 and a finishing mill group 9 of a hot rolling production line, a first intermediate billet cooling device 4-1 is arranged at the outlet of the roughing mill 3, and a second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2 is arranged at the outlet of the hot coil box 5; the first intermediate blank cooling device 4-1 is limited in position only by 5 pairs of coolers, and the second intermediate blank cooling device 4-2 comprises 3 pairs of coolers, wherein each pair of coolers is arranged on the intermediate blank to be cooled in an up-and-down symmetrical manner;
the temperature control method for rolling the strip steel in the ferrite area comprises the following steps:
and (3) selecting qualified IF steel billets, feeding the IF steel billets into a heating furnace, heating to 1050-1150 ℃, preserving heat for 1.5-2 hours, and discharging. After primary descaling, the steel billet is sent to a roughing mill 3 for multi-pass reciprocating rolling, the IF steel billet is rolled into an intermediate billet with the thickness of 25-45 mm, the temperature of the intermediate billet after rough rolling is controlled in the austenite temperature range of steel and is more than 930 ℃ (Ac3 and more than 20 ℃), wherein Ac3Is the end temperature of ferrite transformation to austenite;
the first intermediate billet cooling device 4-1 opens 5 pairs of coolers completely, and rapidly cools and reduces the temperature of the intermediate billet in a large flow, the second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2 adjusts the opening and closing combination and the cooling water flow of each pair of coolers according to the intermediate billet temperature in front of the inlet of the finishing mill group 9 detected in real time, and precisely adjusts the temperature of the intermediate billet in a small flow, so that the intermediate billet in front of the inlet of the finishing mill group 9 is cooled to Ac3fAbove 0-30 ℃ and Ac3fIs ferrite transformation termination temperature. In the embodiment, the number of cooling nozzles and the flow rate of the cooler of the second intermediate blank cooling device 4-2 are switched on and off, so that the intermediate blank is cooled to about 900 ℃, the intermediate blank then enters the hot coil box 5, the tail of the intermediate blank with lower temperature enters the second intermediate blank cooler first after being uncoiled, the number of the cooler nozzles is 3, and the intermediate blank is further cooled to about 880 ℃.
In the embodiment, the first intermediate blank cooling device 4-1 is used for performing quick coarse cooling, and then the head and tail positions of the intermediate blank are changed through the hot coil box 5, so that the temperature uniformity of the intermediate blank is realized, and the guarantee is provided for accurate temperature adjustment of the subsequent second intermediate blank cooling device 4-2, so that the temperature control of the intermediate blank is accurate, and the rolling effect of a ferrite area is ensured. Then, the intermediate billet is subjected to crop shearing 7 and fine descaling 8, and then enters a complete ferrite area (below 860 ℃) to be rolled in a ferrite area of a finishing mill group 9. And then, the strip steel enters a conveying roller way and a cooling device after rolling, and the strip steel enters a coiling machine to be coiled within 690-760 ℃.
The embodiment not only can reform the traditional hot rolling production line, thereby being suitable for rolling strip steel in a ferrite area, but also has good guiding and revealing effects on a newly-built hot rolling production line.
Preferably, the distance between the inlet of the first intermediate blank cooling device and the outlet of the roughing mill is:
wherein v is1Speed of steel throwing for last pass of roughing mill, v0The stable rolling speed of the roughing mill is shown, a is the acceleration of the linear speed of the roller of the roughing mill before steel polishing, x is a distance design allowance and is between 0 and 10m, and x is 7 in the embodiment.
The above formula in this example is an empirical formula, which is a summary of the long term production practice of the applicant. Because the intermediate billet is reduced to a lower running speed and the internal temperature of the intermediate billet is returned to the surface, the first intermediate billet cooling device 4-1 can use the minimum water quantity to achieve the aim of rapid cooling, and can keep the temperature of the intermediate billet uniform, thereby ensuring the temperature adjustment accuracy and uniformity of the second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2.
Example two
In the embodiment, a 08Al low-carbon steel slab is selected for a ferrite area rolling test, and the slab comprises the following components in percentage by weight: less than or equal to 0.08 percent of C, less than or equal to 0.40 percent of Mn, less than or equal to 0.025 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.02 percent of S and less than or equal to 0.04 percent of Al; the balance being Fe. Under the cooling speed of 1-3 ℃/s, the phase transition temperature Ar3f is 820 ℃, the austenitizing Ac3 temperature is 880 ℃, and the annealing recrystallization temperature after cold rolling is above 620 ℃.
As shown in fig. 2, in the present embodiment, the heat coil box of the first embodiment is replaced with a heat-insulating cover 6 to reduce the temperature difference between the head and the tail of the slab. The stable rolling speed of the roughing mill is 5.5m/s, the final pass steel throwing speed of the roughing mill is 1m/s, and the acceleration of the linear speed of the roller of the roughing mill before steel throwing is 1m/s2.
The temperature control method for rolling the strip steel in the ferrite area comprises the following steps:
as shown in figure 2, a first intermediate billet cooling device 4-1 and a second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2 are arranged at reasonable positions between the roughing mill 3 and the finishing mill group 9, and a heat-insulating cover 6 is arranged between the two groups of cooling sections. And (3) selecting qualified IF steel plate blanks, sending the IF steel plate blanks into a heating furnace 1, heating to 1150-1180 ℃, and carrying out heat preservation until the temperature of the steel blanks is uniform, and then tapping.
And after primary descaling, the hot steel billet is sent to a roughing mill 3 for repeated multi-pass rolling, and the IF steel billet is rolled into an intermediate billet with the thickness of 28-52 mm. Calculating the distance between the first intermediate blank cooling device 4-1 and the outlet of the roughing mill 3 according to the rolling speed of the roughing mill, the steel throwing speed and the acceleration of the rolling mill as follows:
wherein v is1Speed of steel throwing for last pass of roughing mill, v0The stable rolling speed of the roughing mill is shown, a is the acceleration of the linear speed of the roller of the roughing mill before steel polishing, x is a distance design allowance and is between 0 and 10m, and x is 7 in the embodiment.
The number of the first intermediate slab cooling devices 4-1 was 8, and all the devices were opened to cool the intermediate slab from 1010 ℃ to about 920 ℃. And the intermediate billet enters a heat-preserving cover 6, then enters a second intermediate billet cooling device 4-2, the number of the cooling spray nozzles and the flow of the cooler are opened and closed according to the intermediate billet temperature in front of the inlet of the finishing mill group 9 detected in real time, and the intermediate billet is further cooled to about 830 ℃. Then the intermediate billet is sent into a finishing mill group 9 after head cutting and scale removing 7 and finishing descaling 8, and the intermediate billet enters a complete vegetarian area (below 810 ℃) for rolling. And then, the strip steel enters a conveying roller way and a cooling device after rolling, and the strip steel enters a coiling machine to be coiled after the temperature of the strip steel is controlled to be 650-710 ℃.
The present invention is not limited to the specific technical solutions described in the above embodiments, and other embodiments may be made in the present invention in addition to the above embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, substitutions of equivalents, and alterations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.