by Ana Urbina (Admin)
Continuous Casting: Optimizing the most important part of the steel industry
Continuous casting is the process in which molten steel flows into a water-cooled mould to create slabs, billets or blooms. The challenge is to control solidification as much as possible to minimize events (e.g entrapped bubbles) that may cause surface defects or a weak body.
This is easily done with a real-time temperature monitoring solution
By using infrared ratio thermometers you will be able to control the solidification of your product in an efficient way, allowing you to adjust the water nozzles and water flow when necessary to achieve proper cooling.
Additionally, we recommend using a Line Scanner system with our Application specific Software for extra accuracy, as it allows you to create a 2D thermal image of the entire metal product.
Endurance Pyrometer:
- Single color, two color and fiber optic models
- Temperature range: 50 to 3200 °C (122 to 5792 °F)
- Superior optical resolution to 300:1
- Spot sizes down to 0.6mm (0.02 inch)
- Fast response times down to 2 ms
- Easy adjustment with manual variable focus integrated head optics
- Through-the-lens sighting, with optional laser, LED or video aiming function
- Compact, rugged housings with IP65 (NEMA-4) rating
- Ethernet, Profinet and EtherNet/IP options
- Programmable relay output for control
- Simultaneous analog and digital outputs
- CQI-9 4th conform
MP300 Line Scanner:
- High scanning speed of 300 lines per second
- up to 1024 measuring points per line
- wide range of spectral and temperature ranges
- high quality scanner motor with MTBF 40.000 h
- integrated Ethernet TCP/IP interface
- PC independent alarm output
- PC independent 4-20 mA interfaces (3 outputs)
- I/O module support for up to 10 sectors/zones (PC independent)
- internal line laser as sighting aid
- robust IP65 housing
- air purge attachment to maintain a clean measuring window
- ingerated water cooling