9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

SMS group has extended its product portfolio to include the new Micro CSP® concept, at the heart of which is the vertical liquid bending type Micro CSP® caster, which is designed for the annual production of approx. 500,000–750,000 t low and medium carbon steel. The idea behind this development was to limit the system to essential equipment only, while simultaneously ensuring stable and...

Since pilot slab caster was operted in 2003 at POSCO, many casting tests were performed in this caster. Because this facility with a heat size of 23 tons is nearly half scale of the actual caster, advanced casting technologies have beed developed and applied in commercial caster. One of these technologies is high-speed casting. Design concepts of segment and cooling sytem, operation...

Abstract: Mold heat transfer is important to mold life, surface quality, breakouts and many other aspects of the steel continuous-casting process. Based on a series of related investigation, the mold cooling process on continuous casting slab of high-carbon steel (wC>1.5%) was investigated. Thermodynamic calculation has been carried out on a high-carbon steel by means of Thermo-Calc program....

Abstract China’s first twin-roll strip casting demonstration industrial plant (NBS Project) with strip width of 1340 mm was built in 2014 by Baosteel in Ningbo, China. After a year of commissioning, the demo plant was put into stable casting and rolling production in 2015. The longest continuous casting time reached 4h and a thickness of 0.9mm ultra-thin carbon steel strip was produced...

The direct strip casting process has attracted attention as a near net shape technologies. BAOSTEEL GROUP CORPORATION and Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd. have jointly developed technologies for the direct strip casting process of carbon steel. The demo plant for the direct strip casting process, with 800 mm diameter and 1340 mm long casting rolls, was installed in China and its operation...