9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

In the continuous steel casting process ladle shroud is used as a protective device or device developing the pattern of liquid steel and non-metallic inclusions motion. With the appropriate construction of ladle shroud, the hydrodynamic structure of liquid steel motion can be effectively modified in the tundish. The facility under investigation is a single-nozzle slab tundish. For the examined facility, two unique ladle shroud have been designed, whose purpose is to stimulate the motion of liquid steel within the working space of the tundish. Computer simulations of the liquid steel flow were done using the Ansys-Fluent computer program. The use of the modern ladle shroud in the tundish effectively influences the pattern of liquid steel flow.