9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

In 2014 Fuxin Special Steel Co. Ltd., Taiwan, has successfully commissioned a steelworks for manufacturing stainless steel slabs at the Zhangzhou location in the Chinese Fujian Province. The new construction project comprises a special steel plant, a vertical liquid bending continuous slab caster, environmental facilities for gas cleaning and energy recovery and the complete X-Pact® electric...

The steel quality produced in a modern high productivity continuous caster is greatly increased by a flow modifier controlling the fluid flow in the mold. To achieve a controlled flow in the mold, to stabilize and to improve casting operation, the third generation FC Mold (FC Mold G3) has been mounted in the molds. This electromagnetic equipment combines the conventional double-level DC...

A major contributor to the quality of continuous cast steel is the flow structure in the mold. In case of slab casting, only the double-roll flow structure is expected to result in optimum quality steel, while other flow structures, like the single-roll or the unstable flow-structure, are generally associated with defects like slag entrainment or non-metallic inclusions. As countermeasures,...

The paper shows the long time trial of edge type of the electromagnetic VUHZ Mold Level Measuring System (MLM System) on Thin Slab Caster equipped with Electro Magnetic Brake (EMBR). Trial was realized in Rizhao China on Primetals ESP (Endless Steel Plant). Three MLM systems (X-ray, electromagnetic edge and suspended types) simultaneously were used for measurement of the steel level in the...