Objetivo
The project will develop improved means of defining, monitoring and assessing the effects of caster design, condition and operation on slab, bloom and rolled product quality in order to enable better control of the process and to provide the required data for quality prediction.
The project will determine the effects of mould taper, wear, metal level, heat transfer and friction as well as secondary cooling and strand guide alignment under steady state and dynamic conditions; relationships with product quality data will be established together with means of predicting and controlling caster condition.