Aiming at the problem that the existence of inclusions in the tundish continuous casting process can easily lead to quality defects of the slab,the stainless steel continuous casting tundish was taken as the research ...Aiming at the problem that the existence of inclusions in the tundish continuous casting process can easily lead to quality defects of the slab,the stainless steel continuous casting tundish was taken as the research object.The effects of flow control device,inclusion density and inclusion size on the mixing characteristics of molten steel and inclusion behavior in tundish were studied.The results showed that compared with the tundish without flow control device,the average residence time of molten steel was prolonged by about 49 s,the dead zone volume fraction was reduced by 8.93%,and the piston fluid integral rate was increased by 12.68%.In the turbulence inhibitor(TI)tundish with weir-dam combination,the removal rate of inclusions with a density of 2700 kg m^(-3) and a particle size of 5 lm is 63.32%,while the removal rate of large inclusions with a density of 150μm could reach 89.04%.When the inclusion particle size was 10-50μm and the density was 2700-4500 kg m^(-3),the effect of inclusion density on inclusion removal rate was small.At the same time,when weir-dam combination TI tundish was set,the inclusions were mainly limited to the slag-metal interface of the first and second chambers of the tundish.The removal rate of inclusions in the first chamber was generally improved,with 10μm inclusions accounting for 47.67% and 150μm inclusions accounting for 60.69%.Furthermore,it has the best effect on the removal of small-size inclusions,especially those less than 70μm.展开更多
The flow-field index in a 41-ton six-strand tundish is considered through adjusting the ratio of the casting velocity between the strands to eliminate the negative impact of iso-velocity casting in multi-strand tundis...The flow-field index in a 41-ton six-strand tundish is considered through adjusting the ratio of the casting velocity between the strands to eliminate the negative impact of iso-velocity casting in multi-strand tundish on the consistency of each strand due to the large ratio of length to width with narrow shape structure,resulting in poor consistency of each strand.In particular,the response time of strand-1 and strand-6 is relatively long,which affects the uniformity of the temperature field and flow field of the entire tundish.On the basis of verifying that the error between the numerical simulations and hydraulic experiments is less than 6%,six cases with the casting velocity ratio changing from 0.8 to 1.3(with an interval of 0.1)are considered by calculation of numerical models.It is concluded that the consistency of each flow can be obviously improved by increasing the casting velocity ratio between side-strand and middle-strand.With increasing the casting velocity ratio,the flow field in the tundish became much active,the temperature field presented well uniformity,and the tracer concentration distribution in local dead zones was improved.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52174321,51874203 and 52074186).
文摘Aiming at the problem that the existence of inclusions in the tundish continuous casting process can easily lead to quality defects of the slab,the stainless steel continuous casting tundish was taken as the research object.The effects of flow control device,inclusion density and inclusion size on the mixing characteristics of molten steel and inclusion behavior in tundish were studied.The results showed that compared with the tundish without flow control device,the average residence time of molten steel was prolonged by about 49 s,the dead zone volume fraction was reduced by 8.93%,and the piston fluid integral rate was increased by 12.68%.In the turbulence inhibitor(TI)tundish with weir-dam combination,the removal rate of inclusions with a density of 2700 kg m^(-3) and a particle size of 5 lm is 63.32%,while the removal rate of large inclusions with a density of 150μm could reach 89.04%.When the inclusion particle size was 10-50μm and the density was 2700-4500 kg m^(-3),the effect of inclusion density on inclusion removal rate was small.At the same time,when weir-dam combination TI tundish was set,the inclusions were mainly limited to the slag-metal interface of the first and second chambers of the tundish.The removal rate of inclusions in the first chamber was generally improved,with 10μm inclusions accounting for 47.67% and 150μm inclusions accounting for 60.69%.Furthermore,it has the best effect on the removal of small-size inclusions,especially those less than 70μm.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number51774031)the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy Foundation (Grant Number 41619018)。
文摘The flow-field index in a 41-ton six-strand tundish is considered through adjusting the ratio of the casting velocity between the strands to eliminate the negative impact of iso-velocity casting in multi-strand tundish on the consistency of each strand due to the large ratio of length to width with narrow shape structure,resulting in poor consistency of each strand.In particular,the response time of strand-1 and strand-6 is relatively long,which affects the uniformity of the temperature field and flow field of the entire tundish.On the basis of verifying that the error between the numerical simulations and hydraulic experiments is less than 6%,six cases with the casting velocity ratio changing from 0.8 to 1.3(with an interval of 0.1)are considered by calculation of numerical models.It is concluded that the consistency of each flow can be obviously improved by increasing the casting velocity ratio between side-strand and middle-strand.With increasing the casting velocity ratio,the flow field in the tundish became much active,the temperature field presented well uniformity,and the tracer concentration distribution in local dead zones was improved.
