Development of systems to aid flexible rolling of long products to close tolerances by on-line calculation of loaded roll gap, control of stand speeds and reheat

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-086

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1998

End date 31 December 2001

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 905 000,00

EU contribution € 543 000,00

Coordinated by

British Steel plc
United Kingdom

Objective

The objective of this project is to develop means of achieving improved tolerances for long products given the trend of more demanding rolling schedules with frequent changes. This will provide competitive advantage in the future where the ability to roll profitably small orders of highly specified material to close tolerances will be crucial. This will be achieved by a novel combination of mill sensors and process models to control key parameters: loaded roll gaps, inter-stand tensions and stock temperatures. Each partner will initially focus on one control parameter; the project will then draw these strands together by proposing on-line control schemes.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• D1 - Rolling - long products and reheating furnaces

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

British Steel plc

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Moorgate ; S60 3AR Rotherham ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via di Castel Romano 100 ; 00128 ROMA EUR
• Total cost: No data

Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sohnstraße 65 ; 40237 Düsseldorf
• Total cost: No data