Quality improvement for continuously cast steel products by swirling flow strategies

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-211

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2000

End date 30 June 2003

Funded under

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

Total cost € 1 339 000,00

EU contribution € 803 400,00

Coordinated by

COGNE ACCIAI SPECIALI
Italy

Objective

The project's aim is to enhance as-cast product quality via design and direct application of innovative feeding systems. Which are used managing and inducing swirling flow in tundish and mould, being either passive (i.e. devices to break vortices) or active system (i.e. nozzles able to cause liquid steel to swirl passing from the tundish to mould). As a result, benefits in term of as-cast internal and surface quality are expected. Numerical and physical simulation approaches will be applied. Plant validation and application will be made on long products and slabs.

Programme(s)

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

Topic(s)

• C3 - Casting and solidification

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

COGNE ACCIAI SPECIALI

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Paravera 16 ; 11100 AOSTA ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (3)

Betriebsforschungsinstitut des Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV

Germany

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

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via di Castel Romano 100/102 ; 00128 ROMA EUR
• Total cost: No data

VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBH

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VOEST-ALPINE-Strasse 3 ; 4020 LINZ
• Total cost: No data