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EP0719607B1
EP0719607B1 EP95402810A EP95402810A EP0719607B1 EP 0719607 B1 EP0719607 B1 EP 0719607B1 EP 95402810 A EP95402810 A EP 95402810A EP 95402810 A EP95402810 A EP 95402810A EP 0719607 B1 EP0719607 B1 EP 0719607B1
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Gilles Fellus
Olivier Salvado
Yves Leclercq
François Mazodier
Luc Vendeville
Yann Breviere
Georges Mercier
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/06—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars
    • B22D11/0622—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars formed by two casting wheels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/16—Controlling or regulating processes or operations
    • B22D11/20—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for removing cast stock

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  • the present invention relates to continuous casting between cylinders of thin metal products, in particular in steel.
  • the product produced for example a thin steel strip of a few millimeters thick, is obtained by pouring the metal molten in a casting space defined between two cylinders of parallel axes, cooled and driven in counterclockwise rotation.
  • the metal solidifies and the metal skins solidified, driven by the rotation of the cylinders, join at the neck between the cylinders, to form the said strip, extracted downwards.
  • the casting strip must in particular have a section corresponding, in shape and dimensions, to the desired section.
  • the air gap at the neck between the cylinders i.e. the distance between the two cylinders, or substantially equal to the desired thickness Of the band.
  • the thickness accuracy is less important than its regularity over the entire length of the strip. So a deviation of a few tenths of a millimeter over the thickness relative to the desired thickness is not detrimental to obtaining a quality finished product, after rolling, while rapid variations thickness along the longitudinal direction of the strip casting may affect the finished product, despite said rolling.
  • the main constraint is of course to get a continuous strip, and therefore it is necessary to ensure the strip extraction, and that this strip is sufficiently solidified during its extraction.
  • Over-solidification metal upstream of the neck is not necessarily harmful in the case of metal casting relatively malleable, for example aluminum, but it is unacceptable for harder metals, such as steel, because then such over-solidification leads either the formation of a metal wedge above the neck, preventing extraction, i.e. deterioration of cylinders when excessively passing metal between them solidified.
  • the object of the invention is a regulation process for continuous casting between cylinders, according to which, during casting, we measure the spacing force of the cylinders, and we act on the position of the bearings of at least one of the cylinders for increase or decrease the distance between the said cylinders, characterized in that, in order to maintain said effort substantially constant, we predefine a range of force values framing a desired nominal force, and we act on the position of the bearings more sharply when the value of the measured effort is outside the said range only when included in the said fork.
  • account is taken the size of the gap between the spreading effort measured and the nominal effort desired to act on the position of the cylinder bearings: as long as the force stays within the predetermined range, that is, it deviates relatively little from the nominal force value, the reaction of moving the bearings of the cylinders to compensate for this variation in effort will moderate, or even zero, while if the effort comes out of the said fork, the reaction will be more intense.
  • the position of the bearings being regulated to a setpoint position, said setpoint position is fixed by a reference position value d r , determined by providing an initial setpoint value d o of position of the bearings a variable corrective value ⁇ d as a function of the difference between the measured spacing force and the nominal force, said corrective value being greater when the measured force is outside of said range than when it is included in the said range.
  • a correction defined by a function f
  • said correction leads to generating an artificial reference position value, which defines a setpoint position offset from the initial set position in driving direction conventionally to compensate for a variation in effort spacing, i.e. in the direction of a spacing cylinders in response to an increase in said force spacing and vice versa.
  • this value of reference position used as a setpoint for the bearing position regulation, is then far from the value of the actual position measurement of levels, this regulation will react more strongly, to move the bearings, only if the set position was remained the initial setpoint position.
  • the signal corrected E ' is increasing according to the difference between the measured spacing force and the nominal force.
  • the signal corrected is zero when the value of the measured effort is included in the said range, and increasing in function of the difference between the measured separation force and nominal force when the value of the measured force is outside the said range.
  • the bearing position regulation acts normally to keep these at the initial set position, this which amounts to tolerating variations in effort without seek to compensate for them by a displacement of the bearings, as long as they stay in the said range.
  • the action on the position of the bearings will be all the more vivid as the force measured moves away from the limits of the range.
  • the correction is reduced after a start-up time predetermined.
  • additional modulation depending on the casting phase.
  • This modulation allows to further increase the reactivity of regulation during the start-up period, so as to obtain the most quickly as possible a stable diet, and reduce this reactivity once this substantially stable regime is obtained, so as to avoid while a peak of effort of very short-term, occurring after the start-up period, lead to a significant variation in the spacing of cylinders, as would be the case during the so-called start-up period.
  • this second modulation applies regardless of whether the effort measured either in the said range or out of it.
  • the range of effort may be relatively narrow during the start-up period, and then be enlarged.
  • the casting installation shown only partially in Figure 1, includes so conventional, and known per se, two cylinders 1, 2, of axes parallel, spaced apart from each other by a distance corresponding to the desired thickness of the casting strip.
  • the two cylinders 1, 2 are rotated in direction otherwise, at the same speed. They are carried by bearings 3, 4, schematically represented, of two supports 5, 6 mounted on a chassis 7.
  • the support 5, and therefore the axis of the corresponding cylinder 1, is fixed relative to the chassis 7.
  • the other support 6 is movable in translation on the chassis 7. Its position is adjustable and determined by thrust cylinders 9 acting so as to bring together or move the supports away from each other.
  • Means of measurement of the spacing force of the cylinders, such as load cells 8, are arranged between the fixed support 5 and the chassis 7. Sensors 10 make it possible to measure the position of the mobile support 6, and therefore the variations in position relative to a setpoint position predetermined according to the desired thickness of the bandaged.
  • the molten metal is spilled between the cylinders, and begins to solidify at contact of their cooled walls by forming skins solidified which are driven by the rotation of cylinders and meet substantially at the neck 11 between the cylinders to form the solidified strip pulled down.
  • the metal exerts on the cylinders an RSF spacing force, measured by the weigh 8, this effort being variable in particular depending the degree of solidification of the metal.
  • This action is performed automatically by a regulation which, according to the invention, makes it possible to obtain a substantially constant spreading effort, very quickly after the start of casting, as well as a thickness of the band obtained also substantially constant.
  • FIG. 2 The schematic diagram of the regulating loop for the spacing force of the cylinders is illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • the difference E between the value of the spacing force RSF, measured by the load cells 8, and the effort setpoint value RSF 0 is calculated by the calculation unit 20.
  • This difference E is entered into a correction device 22 which determines a corrected value E ′ function of E, according to a relationship which will be described in more detail later.
  • the value E ' is introduced into an adjustable gain amplifier 24 which converts E' to a speed v, proportional to E, which is itself integrated into the integrator 26 to provide a corrective value ⁇ d.
  • the corrective value ⁇ d is introduced into an adder 28 which also receives an initial position setpoint value d 0 and a runout compensation value Cfr, and develops a position reference value d r .
  • the position reference value d r which serves as a reference in the regulation of the position of the bearings, is introduced into a comparator 30 which also receives the measured value d m of the position of the bearings, measured by the sensors 10, and develops a signal E p representing the difference between the actual position of the bearings and the setpoint position.
  • This signal is introduced into a conventional regulation loop 32 (PID) which provides a signal i sv to a servovalve 34 for controlling the thrust cylinders 9.
  • PID conventional regulation loop 32
  • the actuation of the thrust cylinders acts on the course of the casting (symbolized by the "process" box 36) during which the value of the RSF spacing force is measured.
  • cycle time of the position regulating loop of the thrust cylinders 9 (loop shown diagrammatically by the dotted frame 36) is, for example, 2.10 -3 seconds while the overall cycle time (dotted frame 38) is for example 10.10 -3 seconds.
  • the correction f provided by the correction device 22 is shown graphically in FIG. 3, in which numerical values of E and E ′, expressed in tonnes, have been indicated only by way of example.
  • the nominal value RSF 0 of the spreading force is 6 T (6 tonnes or approximately 6000 daN), and the range of forces ⁇ RSF is 4 T.
  • the corrective value ⁇ d generated from the value E ' will increase continuously as a function of the difference between the spacing force measured RSF and the nominal force RSF 0 , but moreover increases more strongly as soon as the spacing force leaves the range ⁇ RSF. Consequently, the reactivity of the position regulation of the bearings is somewhat reduced as long as the spacing force measured remains within the said range, and increased or beyond.
  • the gain can also be set according to the time elapsed from start of casting. It would then follow that the gain should be set according to two parameters, the time and the spacing effort, which can in practice complicate the implementation of regulation.
  • E 'as a function of E could also be defined differently, for example E 'being zero or substantially zero as long as the spreading force is included in the said range, and increasing in function of E outside of it, as shown in dotted lines in figure 3.
  • the reference position d r would then be corrected only when the spacing force would come out of said range, and any variation of force remaining in said range would not cause any displacement of the bearings of the cylinders.
  • the correction made to the reference position of the bearings is reduced after a predetermined start-up time, which can be easily achieved by decreasing the gain, and therefore the value ⁇ d.
  • the width of the fork can be increased.
  • the method according to the invention incorporates a runout regulation, to take account of faults circularity of the cylinders and compensate them so as not to no cyclic variations in strip thickness casting.
  • the determination of the circularity deviations can be made by a computer which extracts from the curve variations in the measured spacing force, the cyclic variations, significant of circularity defects, and develops a corrective value CFr which is added to the value initial setpoint d 0 and correction ⁇ d to form the position reference value d r .
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 represent two variants of the correction f which can be used by the correction device 22.
  • the range ⁇ RSF is no longer centered on the nominal value RSF 0 , as in the case of FIG. 3, but shifted to the right, that is to say in the direction of increasing forces .
  • the reactivity of the bearing position regulation is reduced, as indicated above, only when the distance force measured RSF is greater than the set point RSF 0 .
  • the regulation acts normally, that is to say more strongly, which avoids an excessively abrupt reduction in the force, and therefore avoids reaching a value d excessively low effort. This is particularly useful when the RSF 0 setpoint is itself low, for example of the order of 2 tonnes.
  • the correction applied when the spreading force remains in the vicinity of the setpoint is similar to that shown FIG. 3, that is to say providing a reduction in the reactivity of the regulation as long as the effort measured RSF remains within the predefined ⁇ RSF range.
  • a maximum value E'Max is imposed on the corrected value E ', when the force measured exceeds a certain threshold (defined by Es in Figure 7). So while retaining a strong reactivity of the regulation when the effort measured comes out of the ⁇ RSF range, a gap is avoided excessive cylinders in response to a peak of effort very high but very brief, and therefore we provide a more cylinders in their normal position as soon as the peak effort has passed.

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