Objective
The high standard of hot dip coating quality requires a good stability of the strip particularly in the cooling tower after the zinc bath, where the strip is excited by gas jets cooling equipments. The stakes are estimated at about 3 to 4M/line/year, what represents a gain of 75 to 100M/year for the concerned European lines.
The objective of this project is to increase the line productivity and coating quality by decreasing strip vibrations, not with new external stabilizing actuators but by the improvement of the existing cooling technology.
The pilot project is divided in three working axes:
- Analysis of strip vibrations on the cooling tower of Arcelor Steel Belgium industrial line;
- Optimisation of the influent parameters on the experimental cooling device of Arcelor Research plant;
- Installation and optimisation of the improved proposed solution in industrial conditions.
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SAINT DENIS
France