Provided by either a continuous caster or rolled from ingots by a slabbing mill, slabs are 50 to 250 millimetres thick, 0.6 to 2.6 metres wide, and up to 12 metres long (that is, 2 to 10 inches thick, 24 to 104 inches wide, and up to 40 feet long).
Plants that integrate a continuous caster with a hot-rolling mill often need only 90 minutes to convert liquid steel into a hot-rolled product.
With direct charging of a hot-strip mill from a continuous caster, it is possible to have liquid steel in shippable form five hours after it has been tapped at the furnace.
For the purpose of investigating mould friction between mould and strand, online measurement was carried out on a slab continuous caster equipped with a hydraulic oscillator.
An Artificial Intelligence heuristic search procedure interacts with the numerical model to determine the improved cooling conditions for the sprays zones of a real continuous caster for the production of quality billets.
Rolled from heavy slabs supplied by a slabbing mill or continuous caster or sometimes rolled directly from an ingot, plates vary greatly in dimensions.
Blooms with a dog-bone cross section are often supplied to these structural-shape mills by beam-blank continuous casters.
This paper describes a molten steel level control in the mold of a continuous steel caster, using the Robust control method.
The blooms are received, either cold or hot, directly from the blooming mill or continuous caster.
