Control system
View Patent ↗A certain embodiment includes a predictive temperature calculator ( 101 a ) for dividing a steel sheet ( 14 ) to be heated and rolled in a hot rolling mill ( 20 ) into elements shaped annular for each space cutting width from an outer periphery to a center in a section thereof, and changing a time increment width in accordance with boundary conditions, for use of a difference method to calculate a predictive temperature for each of the divided elements, and a controller ( 101 b ) for operating on bases of predictive temperatures calculated by the predictive temperature calculator ( 101 a ), to determine control amounts for the hot rolling mill ( 20 ) to perform heating and rolling the steel sheet ( 14 ).
1. A control system comprising:
a predictive temperature calculator configured to divide a steel sheet in a course of heating, rolling, and cooling in a hot rolling mill into annular shaped elements for each space cutting width from an outer periphery to a center in a section thereof, calculate a temperature variation during a time increment for each of the divided elements, and calculate a predictive temperature for each of the divided elements by adding the temperature variation; and
a controller configured to operate on the basis of predictive temperatures calculated by the predictive temperature calculator, to determine control amounts for the hot rolling mill to implement heating, rolling, and cooling of the steel sheet,
wherein the predictive temperature calculator is configured to calculate a quantity of influx heat during the time increment for each of the divided elements, calculate a temperature variation during the time increment for each of the divided elements on the basis of the quantity of influx heat and volume of the divided elements, and calculate a predictive temperature for each of the divided elements by adding the temperature variation.
2. A control system comprising:
a predictive temperature calculator configured to divide a steel sheet in a course of heating, rolling, and cooling in a hot rolling mill into annular shaped elements for each space cutting width from an outer periphery to a center in a section thereof, calculate a temperature variation during a time increment for each of the divided elements, and calculate a predictive temperature for each of the divided elements by adding the temperature variation; and
a controller configured to operate on the basis of predictive temperatures calculated by the predictive temperature calculator, to determine control amounts for the hot rolling mill to implement heating, rolling, and cooling of the steel sheet,
wherein the predictive temperature calculator is configured to calculate a first quantity of influx heat during the time increment for a part of an outermost enclosure of the divided elements on the basis of radiation heat efflux, cooling heat efflux, convection heat efflux, friction heat influx, roll heat elimination, machining heat, and heat flux, calculate a second quantity of influx heat during the time increment for internal part of the divided elements on the basis of machining heat and heat flux, calculate a temperature variation during time increment for each of the divided elements on the basis of the first quantity of influx heat, the second quantity of influx heat and volume of the divided elements, and calculate a predictive temperature for each of the divided elements by adding the temperature variation.