Development of high productivity casting of conventional & thin slabs

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7215-PP-061

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2001

End date 31 December 2004

Funded under

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

Total cost € 2 055 500,00

EU contribution € 1 027 750,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE
France

Objective

The final goal of the present Pilot/Demonstration project is to allow conventional continuous slab casters to reach the highest possible casting speed, compatible with their current metallurgical lengths, and to demonstrate the possibility for thin slab casters to reach casting speeds higher than 10m/mn. The study will focus on the medium carbon steels (0,1% equivalent carbon) and austenitic stainless steels. For thin-slab casters it is of the first importance to prove that it is possible to directly connect one strand caster with the rolling mill. For this, it is necessary to cast higher than 10m/min for all steel grades. This project proposes some very new approaches for the feeding of metal and the cooling of the thin slab.

Programme(s)

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

Topic(s)

• T2 - Continuous casting

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Immeuble "PACIFIC", La Défense 7 11/13 Cours Valmy ; 92800 PUTEAUX ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

CENTRE DE RECHERCHES METALLURGIQUES

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue Ernest Solvay, 11 ; 4000 LIEGE
• Total cost: No data