THE INFLUENCE OF LADLE SHROUD MISALIGNMENT ON STEEL FLOW IN THREE STRAND T-SHAPE TUNDISH

1 BUĽKO Branislav
Co-authors:
1 DEMETER Peter 2,3 PARILÁK Ľudovít 2 BUČEK Pavol 4 PETRÍK Jozef 4 BLAŠKO Peter 1 BARICOVÁ Dana 2 CHOMIČ Vladimír 5 VESELOVSKÝ Pavol
Institutions:
1 Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Institute of Metallurgy, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia, EU, branislav.bulko@tuke.sk
2 ŽP VVC s.r.o., Kolkáreň 35, 976 81 Podbrezová, Slovakia, EU, parilak@zelpo.sk
3 Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Bayerova 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia, EU, parilak@zelpo.sk
4 Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Institute of Materials and Quality Engineering, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia, EU, jozef.petrik@tuke.sk
5 Železiarne Podbrezová a.s., Kolkáreň 35, 976 81 Podbrezová, Slovakia, EU, veselovsky.pavol@zelpo.sk
Conference:
28th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, May 22nd - 24th 2019
Proceedings:
Proceedings 28th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Pages:
35-41
ISBN:
978-80-87294-92-5
ISSN:
2694-9296
Published:
4th November 2019
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

The residence time for individual tundish configuration is one of the most important factors of the tundish metallurgy. In the T-type tundishes, it is difficult to set a tundish furniture in order to obtain similar residence time for every strand. The tundish furniture is obviously designed for correct set ladle shroud position and angle. In this paper is quantified the ladle shroud deviation angle from vertical axis on residence time of three strand tundish of Železiarne Podbrezová, a.s. (ŽP). using water model in scale 1:2. In the continuous casting machine in ŽP, the manual ladle shroud mounting on ladle is used. Generally, the misalignment of the shroud has a negative effect on the flow of the steel in the tundish. This fact may negatively affect the cleanliness of the cast steel but also wearing of the exposed places of the tundish lining. The results are also evaluated by using sophisticated statistical methods.

Keywords: Steel, continuous casting, tundish, water model, flow simulation, ladle shroud

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