Objective The production of high quality steel strips requires efficient ways to control temperature uniformity along the slab length. Today, in modern re-heating furnaces the over-heating of the slab-end is typically around 50°C, while the dissymmetry of temperature profile as of about 20°C. These defects produce bad thickness for heads and tails, scale incrustation and difficulties to insert sheets into the rolling mill with high speed. The objective of this research is to develop new technical devices to improve the longitudinal temperature homogeneity of slabs in re-heating furnaces. Simulations, experimental tests and full-scale trials of cooling systems, shadow masks, geometrical transformations of walls and waste-gas exit will be performed in order to obtain an innovative design of a new re-heating furnace. 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 INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE EU contribution No data Address Immeuble "PACIFIC", La Défense 7 11/13 Cours Valmy 92800 PUTEAUX France See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Betriebsforschungsinstitut des Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV Germany EU contribution No data Address Sohnstraße 65 40237 Düsseldorf See on map Total cost No data MEFOS, FOUNDATION FOR METALLURGICAL RESEARCH Sweden EU contribution No data Address Aronstorpsvägen 1 971 25 LULEÅ See on map Total cost No data RAUTARUUKKI OYJ, RAUTARUUKKI STEEL Finland EU contribution No data Address 92101 RAAHE See on map Total cost No data
