Continuous Casting



ROOM B TUESDAY, 23rd October 2018
Time Title Authors
8.00 a.m. Optimization of the criteria for qualitative qualification of slabs by low weight in the tundish of Ternium Siderar. A. Martín, M. Dutto, A. Vela, J. Pérez, U. Marinzalda (Ternium, Argentina); S. Ramos (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina)
8.30 a.m. Evaluation of performance of mould powders for ultra low carbon steel grades. C. Nogueira Araújo Diniz, V. Cunha Aranda, F. Lourenço, L. Martins Demuner (Ternium, Brazil); M. da Silva Monteiro Pereira, G. Tolentino Ferreira, W. Moreira de Carvalho (Imerys Steelcasting do Brasil, Brazil); Hervé Tavernier (Imerys Metalcasting France, France)
9.00 a.m. Mold flow evaluation during production of IF steel grade with an advanced multiple measurement mold audit tool “XMAT”. V. Aranda, F. Lourenco, L. Demuner (Ternium, Brazil); M. Miranda, T. Ramos (Vesuvius, Brazil); J. Minovsky, E. Hilgenhöner (Vesuvius, Germany); S. Berns (Vesuvius, United States)
9.30 a.m. Methodology to define the best ranges of properties for mould flux tecnical specification. A. Prenazzi, A. de Almeida Diego, L. Nunes Silva, Geusimar (Vesuvius, Brazil); A. Dettogne do Nascimento (ArcelorMittal Tubarão, Brazil)
10.30 a.m. Effect of secondary cooling on corner cracks formation of boron-added low-carbon steels. A. Martín, M. Dutto, A. Vela (Ternium, Argentina); S. Ramos, L. Reda (Instituto Argentina de Siderurgia, Argentina)
11.00 a.m. Analysing the role of slag infiltration to understand the influence of flow, heat transfer and solidification during formation of defects during continuous casting. P. Ramírez López, P. Jalali, U. Sjöström (Swerea MEFOS, Sweden); P. Jonsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); K. Mills (Imperial College London, UK); I. Sohn (Yonsei University, South Korea)
2.00 p.m. Segregation in high carbon steels: Effect the mold position of the electromagnetic agitation coil and the process parameters in the continuous casting billets. F. Martínez, G. Franco, D. Morresi (Acindar ArcelorMittal Group, Argentina); S. Ramos (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina)
2.30 p.m. Thermal simulation of the continuous casting tundish at Ternium Argentina Nº 2 caster. J. Sylvestre Begnis (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina), A. Martín, F. Dutto (Ternium, Argentina)
3.00 p.m. New tube molds to the casting of billets: a technology vision. F. Martínez, G. Franco, D. Morressi, G. Barra (Acindar ArcelorMittal Group, Argentina) E. Garfagnoli (Consultant, Argentina)
4.00 p.m. Advanced Inspection of Surface Quality in Continuously Cast Products by Online Monitoring. A. Slagter, R. Pineda Huitrón, E. Vuorinen (LTU, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); P. Ramírez López (Swerea MEFOS, Sweden); C. Schmidt (Outokumpu Stainless, Sweden)
4.30 p.m. Continuous temperature measurement of steel in the tundish: test of Castemp system in ArcelorMittal Tubarão. M. Macedo Fialho, S. de Souza Santos (ArcelorMittal Tubarão, Brazil); O. Alves Jr, M. Monteiro Onken (Heraeus Electro-Nite, Brazil)
5.00 p.m. Continuous casting process evaluation based on direct feedback of surface quality of cast semis. E. Hilgenhöner (Vesuvius, Germany), P. Hooli (Sapotech, Finland)
5.30 p.m. A major step forward in improving internal slab quality – development and first implementation of the single roll dynagap (SRD) segment at Ternium. F. Ramstorfer, G. Trindade dos Santos, V. Cunha Aranda, F. Lourenço, L. Martins Demuner (Ternium, Brazil); D. Burzic, P. Pennerstorfer (Primetals Technologies Austria, Austria)