9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Summary (200 to 300 words) should be concise and contain all sufficient information for a fair assessment: The market requires that steelmakers of high quality products assure and are able to give proof that their steel is defect free. In a caster, in order to discard portions of defective steel, it is necessary to identify their locations and crop them out. Wasting portions of good steel...

High requirements on the slab qualities necessitate optimized casting processes and high precise analytical methods. Determination of macro segregation using optical spark emission spectroscopy make possible fine adjustment of soft reduction in order to acquire optimal isotropic properties of hot rolled products. To account for the individual quality characteristics of main steel grade,...

HADEED commitment to improve steel quality is emphasized by the installation of Dynamic Soft Reduction (DSR) system at slab casters. The system purpose is to improve steel internal quality in terms of reduced internal cracks and centerline segregation, which will lead to higher quality of hot rolled coils. A comparative study conducted to evaluate the influence of dynamic soft reduction system...

The digital transformation achieves a structural change in automation – a transformation of process automation into a new and more efficient structure. Today's hierarchical automation pyramid is replaced by a flat structure of intelligent, flexible and autonomous units. It is important that the metal industry makes an active contribution to implement digitalization in their production plants...

For many years SMS group modernizes various continuous casters and equips them with state of the art technology. The scope, proven by some 500 revamps worldwide, ranges from small optimizations right up to far-reaching changes of the continuous casters. The concrete measures are defined according to the customer’s objectives: the improvement of the slab quality, the expansion of the product...