CSIR Central

Electromagnetic Induction Tomography for Monitoring Liquid Metal Flow During Continuous Casting

IR@NML: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur


Field	Value

Title	Electromagnetic Induction Tomography for Monitoring Liquid Metal Flow During Continuous Casting

Creator	Peyton, A J Stefani, F Eckert, S Timmel, K Wondrak, T Gerbeth, G

Subject	Materials Science Metallurgy

Description	Monitoring of the steel flow through the submerged entry nozzle (SEN) during continuous casting presents a challenge for the instrumentation system because of the high temperature environment and the limited access to the nozzle in between the tundish and the mould. In this paper, we describe the development of electromagnetic instrumentation as a new tool to visualize the steel flow profile within the SEN. The presentation will cover the development of the technique from first principles, initial hot tests to subsequent plant tests. Recent work has focussed on experiments on a scaled (approx. 10:1) laboratory model of the continuous casting process. The experiments were performed with argon gas and GaInSn as an analogue for liquid steel, which has similar conductive properties as molten steel and allows the measurements at room temperature. In this work two inductive imaging techniques have been combined for the first time to simultaneously image the two phase distribution in the SEN and the velocity profile in the mould.

Date	2013-12

Type	Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7057/1/A_J_Peyton.pdf Peyton, A J and Stefani, F and Eckert, S and Timmel, K and Wondrak, T and Gerbeth, G (2013) Electromagnetic Induction Tomography for Monitoring Liquid Metal Flow During Continuous Casting. In: Proceeding of the International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking, December 16-18, 2013, CSIR-NML Jamshedpur.

Relation	http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7057 http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7057/