IP Library Granted Patent US 9,308,563
Granted Patent B2
US 9,308,563 · App. 13/466,478 · Granted Apr 12, 2016

Manufacturing method of hot-rolled steel sheet

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Patent No.
US 9,308,563
App. No.
13/466,478
Granted
Apr 12, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provide a manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet capable of providing a target temperature for temperature of a rolled material in a final stand in a row of hot finishing mills, even when disposing a cooling device capable of cooling from inside the row of hot finishing mills. The method comprises: rapidly cooling the rolled material by spraying cooling water at inside of the final stand on a lower process side of the final stand in the row of hot finishing mills; obtaining an entry-side surface temperature of the rolled material on an entry side of the final stand; and calculating a target surface temperature on the entry side of the final stand, from a target surface temperature on the exit side of the final stand, based on generated heat and temperature reductions by contact of work rolls with the rolled material and by air cooling.

Claims (20)

1. A manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet, wherein cooling water is sprayed at an inside of a housing of a final stand on a lower process side of the final stand, which is disposed on an end on the lower process side in a row of hot finishing mills, to rapidly cool a rolled material;

a surface temperature of the rolled material is measured on an entry side of the final stand, to obtain an entry-side surface temperature; and

an entry-side target surface temperature, which is a target surface temperature of the rolled material at the measurement position of the entry-side surface temperature, is calculated from an exit-side target surface temperature, which is a target surface temperature of the rolled material on an exit side of the final stand, based on: a temperature increase by a heat generated by rolling processing in the final stand; a temperature reduction by contact of a work roll in the final stand with the rolled material; and a temperature reduction by air cooling in transportation from the measurement position of the entry-side surface temperature to the work roll of the final stand.

2. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein in calculating the entry-side target surface temperature, changes in the surface temperature of the rolled material in a rolling direction are included as an element.

3. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein in a case when rolling by the row of hot finishing mills is carried out by a rolling method to change a rolling reduction of the rolling mills during the rolling, sheet thickness changes and changes in a friction coefficient between the rolled material and the work roll due to the rolling reduction changes are also included as elements in calculating the entry-side target surface temperature.

4. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the rolled material is cooled by cooling water also in the entry side of the final stand; and

in calculating the entry-side target surface temperature, the temperature reduction by water cooling at a time of transportation from the measurement position of the entry-side surface temperature to the work roll of the final stand is also included as an element.

5. The manufacturing method of a hot rolled steel sheet according claim 1 , wherein a measuring device of the entry-side surface temperature is a thermometer disposed at a position opposing to the surface of the rolled material; and

as to the thermometer, a plurality of the thermometers are disposed in a sheet width direction of the rolled material, or one width direction thermometer is disposed.

6. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring device of the entry-side surface temperature is a water column thermometer comprising: a radiation thermometer disposed at the position opposing to the surface of the rolled material; and a water column forming device for forming a watercourse as a light waveguide between the rolled material and the radiation thermometer.

7. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the entry-side target surface temperature and the entry-side surface temperature are compared based on the calculated entry-side target surface temperature and the measured entry-side surface temperature; and

a command is sent to at least one of a coilbox, rough bar heater, descaler, and between-stand cooling device such that the entry-side surface temperature becomes the entry-side target surface temperature.

8. The manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein when rolling is carried out without performing the rapid cooling, a surface temperature of the rolled material is measured in a zone supposed to be rapidly coolable or immediately after the zone to obtain a post-rolling surface temperature,

wherein a surface temperature of the rolled material on the exit side of the final stand is calculated based on the measured entry-side surface temperature and the post-rolling surface temperature; the calculated surface temperature is compared with a surface temperature of the rolled material on the exit side of the final stand obtained by a calculation process of the entry-side target surface temperature; and the calculation of the entry-side target surface temperature when performing the rapid cooling is modified based on an error.

9. The manufacturing method of a hot rolled steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein water flow density of the cooling water is 10 m 3 /(m 2 ·min) or more.

10. A manufacturing method of a hot-rolled steel sheet, wherein cooling water is sprayed at an inside of a housing of a final stand on a lower process side of the final stand, which is disposed on an end on the lower process side in a row of hot finishing mills, to rapidly cool a rolled material;

a surface temperature of the rolled material is measured on an entry side of the final stand, to obtain an entry-side surface temperature;

a prescribed entry-side target surface temperature and the measured entry-side surface temperature are compared; and

a command is sent to at least one of a coilbox, rough bar heater, descaler, and between-stand cooling device such that the measured entry-side surface temperature becomes the entry-side target surface temperature.

11. The manufacturing method of a hot rolled steel sheet according to claim 10 , wherein water flow density of the cooling water is 10 m 3 /(m 2 ·min) or more.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 12, 2013
From: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029972/0601 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2012
From: OTA, TAKESHI
To: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028174/0234 →