Conveners
Furnace I - Temperature Control Challenges
- Omar Garcia-Rincon (TERNIUM Mexico SA de CV)
- Sergey Yashchuck (Severstal)
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Martin Niederer (Austrian Institute of Technology / Center for Vision, Automation & Control)21/06/2021, 11:10HDG Process Technology - Furnace, Galvanizing Bath, Coating Weight ControlOral Presentation
In a hot-dip galvanizing line for the production of zinc-coated steel strips, the heat treatment of the strip is an important process step. In order to achieve the desired material and surface properties, the strip has to be heated according to a predefined temperature trajectory. From the viewpoint of control, this is a challenging task, in particular in transient furnace operation, e.g. when...
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Kaihsiang Lin (University of Waterloo)21/06/2021, 11:30Challenges in Galvanizing Advanced High Strength Steels (GI, GA,…)Oral PresentationSubstandard advanced high strength steel (AHSS) mechanical properties produced through continuous galvanizing can often be traced back to temperature excursions during intercritical annealing, caused by errors in the pyrometrically-inferred temperatures used to control the furnaces. These errors originate from the changing surface state of the steel strip, in terms of roughness and oxide...Go to contribution page
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Nico Schmitz (Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering / RWTH Aachen University)21/06/2021, 11:50HDG Process Technology - Furnace, Galvanizing Bath, Coating Weight ControlOral Presentation
The main focus of the proposed paper is on the design and efficient operation of metallic recirculating radiant tubes installed with recuperative or regenerative burners in vertical strip galvanizing lines. Premature tube failures may result in loss of production capacity arising from reduced heat input or, worse, unplanned plant shutdowns. As a galvanizing line furnace equipped with around...
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Alexander Reimann (Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (RWTH Aachen University))21/06/2021, 12:10In-Line Measurements and Quality ControlOral PresentationMeasurements at high-temperature facilities such as galvanizing lines are often possible only to a limited extent. Moreover, many of the processes involved are too complex to apply existing numerical methods such as CFD to provide the desired information. Therefore, an empirical method was developed to estimate process data which is not measured. The method was demonstrated by determining the...Go to contribution page