This paper presents a new system to control secondary cooling water sprays in continuous casting of thin steel slabs, CONONLINE. It uses real-time numerical simulation of heat transfer and solidification within the strand as a software sensor, in place of unreliable temperature measurements. The one-dimensional finite-difference model, CON1D is adapted to create the real-time predictor of the s...

1 [email protected], Tel: +44 (0)115 846 6521. Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4254. 2 [email protected], Tel: +44 (0)1274 234005. Fax: +44 (0)1274 234054. 3 [email protected], Tel: +44 (0)115 951 4222. Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4249. *Research supported by EPSRC grant number GR/N04225/01, DASH associates and a committee of vice chancellors and Principals ORS award. Abstract This paper describes a new...

The quality of continuous cast steel is greatly affected by fluid flow in the mold region, especially involving transient phenomena and the transport of inclusion particles. As part of a long-term effort to develop and apply comprehensive models of these and other phenomena, this paper reports on studies to evaluate the relative accuracy of models of three different fluid flow phenomena in cont...

Avoiding particle entrapment into the solidifying shell of a steel continuous caster is important to improve quality of the continuous cast product. Therefore, the fluid flow dynamics in the steel melt and mushy zone, heat transfer and solidification of the steel shell, as well as the motion and entrapment of inclusion particles during the casting process were investigated using computational m...

Avoiding particle entrapment into the solidifying shell of a steel continuous caster is important to improve the quality of the continuous cast product. Therefore, the fluid flow dynamics in the steel melt and mushy zone, heat transfer and solidification of the steel shell, as well as the motion and entrapment of inclusion particles during the casting process were investigated using computation...