Sms Group Gmbh

Fontaine Engineering Und Maschinen Gmbh

Sms Meer Gmbh

Thomas Daube

Lutz Kümmel

Holger Behrens

Michael Zielenbach

Thomas Nerzak

Alexandre Lhoest

Ulrich Sommers

Dominique Fontaine

Pascal Fontaine

Guido Sonnenschein

Hermann Josef Klingen

Mario Radschun

Annette Jobst

Joerg Himmel

Eduard Stecklein

Markus Jaenecke

Babak Taleb-Araghi

Gernot Richter

Jörg Himmel

Lutz KÜMMEL

A heat-treatment method for controlling austenite content in steel during conveying, heating and cooling the steel though a furnace. The method includes heating the steel until reaching a first location, then cooling the steel until reaching a downstream second or third location in the furnace. First, a quality window of the austenite content having minimum/maximum values at the second or third locations is determined. Upstream from the second/third locations, temperature of the steel for the second/third locations is predicted by a heat-transfer equation and/or conveyance speed of the steel through the furnace. The austenite content is then predicted at the second/third locations by metallurgical/data-based modelling using the predicted temperature. The furnace temperature and/or conveyance speed is adjusted when the predicted steel austenite content for the second/third locations is outside the quality window, whereby after the furnace adjustment, the predicted austenite content for the second/third locations falls within the quality window.

Method for the heat treatment of a metal based on a predicted austenite content to achieve austenite content within a quality window

The invention relates to a method and a vacuum-coating system () for coating a band-type material (), in particular made of metal. For this, the band-type material () is moved, via a conveying section (), in a transport direction (T) and is vacuum-coated within a coating chamber (), in which a vacuum is applied. As seen in the transport direction (T) of the band-type material (), at least one flatness optimization device () is arranged upstream of the coating chamber (), through which flatness optimization device the band-type material () can be guided. In this way, a desired flatness is generated for the band-type material ().

Vacuum-coating system and method for coating a band-type material

In a method for the online determination of at least one rolling parameter when rolling a rolling material rolled along a rolling line in a rolling mill including at least two rolls on a roll stand, the rolling material is guided past or through at least one measuring device during the rolling, which interacts with a rolling material variable of the rolling material, the rolling material variable being changeable along the length of the rolling material, and outputs a measurement signal, wherein: (i) the measurement signal is transferred into the frequency space, and the rolling parameter is determined from the measurement signal transferred into the frequency space, and/or (ii) a frequency inherent in the change of the rolling material variable is determined from the measurement signal, and the rolling parameter is determined on the basis of the determined frequency.

Method for the online determination of at least one rolling parameter, and rolling mill with a device for the online determination of at least one rolling parameter

A method and a vacuum-coating system () for coating a strip-shaped material (), in particular made of metal, are disclosed. Thereby, the strip-shaped material () is moved over a conveying section () in a transport direction (T) and vacuum-coated within a coating chamber () in which a vacuum is applied. When viewed in the transport direction (T) of the strip-shaped material (), at least one trimming shear () is arranged upstream of the coating chamber (), with which the strip-shaped material () is trimmed at at least one strip edge, preferably at both strip edges, in order to produce a constant width for the strip-shaped material () over its longitudinal extension.

Vacuum-coating system, and method for coating a strip-type material

An apparatus for treating a metal strip after it has exited from a coating container with a liquid coating material, for example zinc is provided. The apparatus includes a blow-off device arranged above the coating container having an air outlet gap for blowing off excess parts of the still liquid coating material from the surface of the metal strip after the passing of the metal strip through the coating container. An electromagnetic stabilizer is arranged above the blow-off device and has a plurality of individual magnets for stabilizing the metal strip after leaving the coating container and the blow-off device. In order to further increase the efficiency of the apparatus, at least some of the magnets of the stabilizer are formed as pot magnets with pot coils.

Apparatus for treating a metal strip including an electromagnetic stabilizer utilizing pot magnets

The invention relates to a method for coating a metal strip with the aid of a coating device. Within the coating device, the strip first runs through a coating container with a liquid coating agent and then a stripping nozzle device for stripping off excess coating agent from the surface of the strip. After the stripping nozzle device, the strip typically runs through a strip stabilizing device with a plurality of magnets on both broad sides of the strip. A form control deviation is determined as the difference between a determined actual form of the strip and a specified desired form of the strip and this form control deviation is used for activating the magnets of the strip stabilizing device in order to transform the actual form of the strip into the desired form. As an alternative possibility for producing a moment, in particular a bending moment, in the strip, on the basis of the form control deviation the magnets of the strip stabilizing deviceare moved in the widthwise direction R of the stripinto a traversing position in relation to the magnets on the respectively opposite broad side of the strip.

Method and coating device for coating a metal strip

A method for operating an annealing furnace to anneal a metal strip provides that, initially, at least one target material property (MP) is specified for a point or a section of the metal strip after passing through the annealing furnace. In addition, information (E) on the metal strip is provided before or in the annealing furnace. A calculation of a target temperature distribution (T) and/or a target speed (V) of the metal strip in the annealing furnace is then carried out with the assistance of a computer-aided model as a function of the target material properties and the specified information. The target temperature distribution and/or target speed calculated in this manner is/are subsequently set in the annealing furnace in order to transfer the material property of the metal strip behind the annealing furnace to the desired target material property MP.

Method for operating an annealing furnace

A method for operating a coating device for coating a metal strip. The corresponding coating device has an electromagnetic strip-stabilizing device having a plurality of electromagnetic actuators or coils for applying forces to the metal strip. In order to ensure that the strip-stabilizing device is operated only within the operating limits thereof, the magnitudes of the set currents for the actuators or the coils are compared with a specified current threshold value or the forces applied to the metal strip by the actuators are compared with a specified force threshold value and the correction roller is moved into such an adjustment position that the magnitudes of the set currents are below the current threshold value or the magnitudes of the forces are below the force threshold value.

Method for operating a coating device for coating a metal strip, and coating device

A measuring device that is able to function even in rough environments, for example under great heat or in environments in which water or steam is found, as is the case in rolling mills, among other environments, has a housing, a central measuring device that passes through the housing in a straight line, and a measuring coil that is disposed in the housing and encloses the measuring opening. The device has a coil carrier that is disposed in the housing radially outside of the measuring coil and carries the measuring coil.

Measuring device

An elongated workpiece is treated, e.g. rolled, in a production system where treatment devices move the workpiece longitudinally in a horizontal travel direction and at a generally constant travel speed along a horizontal longitudinal path and a control computer is connected to the treatment devices. Straightness of the workpiece is measured by gripping the workpiece at a pair of longitudinally spaced supports, applying tension to a longitudinally extending horizontal portion of the workpiece between the supports, and continuously moving the workpiece in the travel direction at the travel speed with a lower surface of the portion substantially unsupported. At least periodically a vertical spacing is measured between the portion and a straight longitudinal reference line extending in the direction between the supports parallel to the workpiece at the supports. The vertical-spacing measurement are fed to the computer for use controlling the devices.

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