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- Title
Study of Low Flow Rate Ladle Bottom Gas Stirring Using Triaxial Vibration Signals.
- Authors
Yenus, Jaefer; Brooks, Geoffrey; Dunn, Michelle; Li, Zushu; Goodwin, Tim
- Abstract
Secondary steelmaking plays a great role in enhancing the quality of the final steel product. The metal quality is a function of metal bath stirring in ladles. The metal bath is often stirred by an inert gas to achieve maximum compositional and thermal uniformity throughout the melt. Ladle operators often observe the top surface phenomena, such as level of meniscus disturbance, to evaluate the status of stirring. However, this type of monitoring has significant limitations in assessing the process accurately especially at low gas flow rate bubbling. The present study investigates stirring phenomena using ladle wall triaxial vibration at a low flow rate on a steel-made laboratory model and plant scale for the case of the vacuum tank degasser. Cold model and plant data were successfully modeled by partial least-squares regression to predict the amount of stirring. In the cold model, it was found that the combined vibration signal could predict the stirring power and recirculation speed effectively in specific frequency ranges. Plant trials also revealed that there is a high structure in each data set and in the same frequency ranges at the water model. In the case of industrial data, the degree of linear relationship was strong for data taken from a single heat.
- Subjects
STEELMAKING furnaces; FOUNDRY ladles; DEGASSING of metals; VIBRATION (Mechanics); GAS flow
- Publication
Metallurgical & Materials Transactions. Part B, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 1, p423
- ISSN
1073-5615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11663-017-1118-2