DANIELI concepts and experiences in thin slab casting and rolling technology for HRC production
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Abstract
The direct rolling process for hot strip production,where the thin slab caster is connected directly to the mill,has gained market share rapidly because of its remarkable advantages in terms of energy savings and investment cost over the conventional hot strip mills.However,the unquestionable advantages of the first-generation applications of this plant concept also entail significant limitations both in productivity and steel grades that can be produced.Since his first pioneering applications,Danieli considered strategic the development of new technical solutions specifically conceived to overcome these limitations with the goal of increasing plant production volumes and enlarging steel grade product mix,in order to cover the gap between Conventional Mill and Slab Casting and process routes.In order to reach this goal,Danieli has developed a complete portfolio of plant lay outs adopting Thin Slab Casting and Rolling technologies,each of them conceived to guarantee the optimal CAPEX and OPEX parameters in fitting with market requirements our customer intend to target,in terms of productivity,steel grades and coil dimension product mix.Danieli TSR(Thin Slab Rolling)fTSR(flexible Thins Slab Rolling)QSP(Quality Strip Production)and ETR(Extra Thin Rolling)plant configurations are analyzed in this paper.With this diversified approach,Danieli solutions are most appropriate answers to thin slab casting and rolling to produce hot rolled coils with superior quality and an extremely diversified range of steel grades.Already,this approach has allowed Danieli plants to:①exceed the threshold production of 3.0 million tons per year with 2 casting strands in operation as done in Tangshan Iron and Steel plant in P.R.China since 2005;②expand the product mix to include virtually all the steel grades used for flat product applications,including the most demanding ones,such as peritectic(in Essar Algoma Canada and Benxi Iron and Steel,China),micro-alloyed,and silicon steels,for the most sophisticated applications,such as automotive and pipe manufacturing,including Arctic applications.(as done in OMK plant in Russia);③extend the range of final strip thicknesses to include ultra thin gauges,down to 0,8 mm(as in Ezz Flat Steel,in Egypt).
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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