Method and device for cooling surfaces in casting installations, rolling installations or other strip processing lines

1. A method of cooling a surface of cast stock, rolling stock ( 1 ), or roll, comprising the following steps:

providing a nozzle ( 2 ) having an inlet ( 3 ) and an outlet ( 5 ) located opposite a cooled surface;

providing a single-phase volume flow (V) of a cooling fluid fed to the nozzle ( 2 ) via the inlet ( 3 ) and that leaves the nozzle through the outlet ( 5 ),

characterized in that,

at least the nozzle outlet ( 5 ) is supported at a variable distance (d) to the cooled surface; and

the volume flow (V) of the cooling fluid fed to the inlet ( 3 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) is so freely self-adjusted that the nozzle ( 2 ) is aspirated toward the cooled surface according to Bernoulli principle.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the distance (d) between the outlet ( 5 ) and the cooled surface varies in a direction (S) extending transverse to the cooled surface.

3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzle ( 2 ) is slidably supported in a guide ( 7 ).

4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzle ( 2 ) is essentially supported transverse to the cooled surface under pre-stress.

5. A method according to claim 1 , wherein a cross-section (A) of the outlet ( 5 ) is rotationally symmetrical in a plane extending parallel to the cooled surface or, alternatively, in order to counteract the influence of a movable cooled surface, is formed elongated and substantially elliptical.

6. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzle ( 2 ) is displaced oscillatingly substantially parallel to the cooled surface.

7. A method according to claim 1 , wherein several nozzles or rows of nozzles ( 2 ) are oscillatingly displaced parallel to the cooled surface, and the oscillation of adjacent nozzles ( 2 ) or nozzle rows takes place in a same direction or an opposite direction.

8. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzle ( 2 ) has a guide region ( 9 ) provided between the inlet ( 3 ) and the outlet ( 5 ) and in which the cooling fluid flows from the inlet ( 3 ) to the outlet ( 5 ) in the direction (S) extending transverse to the cooled surface and is sidewise enclosed thereby.

9. A method according to claim 1 , wherein a cross-section (A) of the outlet ( 5 ) widens in a downstream direction continuously.

10. A method according to claim 1 , wherein adjustment of the volume flow comprises adjustment of at least one of flow velocity and its pressure.

11. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the variable distance (d) between the outlet (S) and the cooled surface is retained, independently from an available volume flow (V), by a limiting element ( 11 ) greater than 0.09 mm and than.

12. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the volume flow (V) is formed by liquid.

13. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet ( 5 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) is arranged opposite a roll surface or opposite a metal strip surface between two rolling mill stands of a rolling train.

14. A method according to claim 1 , wherein several nozzles ( 2 ) are arranged in a row one behind another in a plane opposite the cooled surface, or several nozzles are arranged, respectively, in several adjacent rows opposite the cooled surface.

15. A cooling device ( 10 ) for cooling a surface of cast stock, rolling stock, or roll comprising:

at least one nozzle ( 2 ) having an inlet ( 3 ) with a first inner cross-section (E) and an outlet ( 5 ) facing a cooled surface and having a second inner cross-section (A) greater than the first cross-section (E), wherein the cooling device ( 10 ) is so formed that in a direction transverse to the cooled surface, distance (d) between the outlet ( 5 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) and the cooled surface is freely self-adjusted between 0.1 mm and 5 mm according to the Bernoulli principle.

16. A rolling apparatus for rolling stock, comprising at least one cooling device ( 10 ) for cooling a surface of cast stock, rolling stock, or roll and having at least one nozzle ( 2 ) having an inlet ( 3 ) with a first inner cross-section (E) and an outlet ( 5 ) facing a to-be-cooled surface and having a second inner cross-section (A) greater than the first cross-section (E), wherein the cooling device ( 10 ) is so formed that in a direction transverse to the cooled surface, distance (d) between the outlet ( 5 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) and the cooled surface is freely self-adjusted between 0.1 mm and 5 mm according to Bernoulli principle, wherein the rolling apparatus includes at least one roll having a cooled roll surface, and the outlet ( 5 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) is directed for cooling toward the roll surface, or wherein the rolling apparatus comprises at least two, arranged next to each other, rolling mill stands for rolling a metal strip ( 1 ), and the cooling device ( 10 ) is located between the two rolling mill stands for cooling a surface of the metal strip located between the two rolling mill stands.

17. A cooling device ( 10 ) according to claim 15 , wherein the distance (d) between the outlet ( 5 ) of the nozzle ( 2 ) and the cooled surface is self-adjusted between 0.5 mm and 2 mm.

18. A method according to claim 9 , wherein the variable distance (d) between the outlet (S) and the cooled surface is retained, independently from an available volume flow (V), by a limiting element ( 11 ) greater than 0.5 mm.