Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Nozaki

Hakaru Nakato

Yasuhiro Habu

Tomoaki Kimura

Tetsuya Fujii

Nagayasu Bessho

Kyoji Nakanishi

Yoshiei Kato

Toshihiko Emi

Seiji Itoyama

Takao Koshikawa

Noboru Yasukawa

Kenji Saito

Katsuo Kinoshita

Kenichi Sorimachi

Nozomu Tamura

Yukio Oguchi

Saburo Moriwaki

Hirokazu Tozawa

Sadayuki Saito

Akihiko Nanba

Hisashi Ohmori

Mitsuo Saito

Tsunehiro Ueda

Motoyasu Yaji

Haruji Okuda

Fumitaka Shimokawa

Shigeru Ohmiya

Hiromu Oka

Michio Suzuki

Hiroaki Ohnuma

Jun-ichi Matsuno

Seiji Watanabe

Kenichiro Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Nakamoto

Masaaki Kuga

Hideaki Kishimoto

Koji Hosotani

Kenji Murata

Michio Tanaka

Spray coating is performed utilizing a mixture of refractory material and a combustionable metal powder. The size of the particle of the metal in the mixture is selected so that the particle size is large enough to be treated safely and is small enough to be transported by means of a gas flow. As a carrier gas for carrying the mixture, a non-combustionable gas or fuel gas is used. A fuel gas and a combustion-assisting gas are discharged toward the section to be treated on the surface for directing a combustioning frame. The refractor material with the carrier gas is discharged into the frame established by the fuel gas and the combustion-assisting gas. The average size of the metal particle to be used in the spray coating is limited to be greater than 50 .mu.m. By enlarging the particle size of the metal, combustion of the metal particle becomes difficult. Combustion of such large particle size metal can be assisted by discharging the combustion-assisting gas together with the fuel gas. This compensates combustion efficiency to be dropped by utilizing the larger particle size metal.

Method and apparatus for spray coating of refractory material to

In an immersion nozzle for continuous casting, at least one portion of reduced a sectional area of passage for molten metal is formed near to the bottom of the nozzle and plural discharge ports symmetrically arranged with respect to the axis of the nozzle are arranged above and below the reduced sectional area portion in the longitudinal direction of the nozzle. Further, molten metal is continuously cast by using the above immersion nozzle together with a static magnetic field.

Immersion nozzle for continuous casting

A method and apparatus for continuous casting of an elongated thin metal strip achieves substantially high yield without allowing break-out or sticking. The method for casting a continuous elongated metal strip includes a step of driving endless belts at a varying speed so as to apply jerks to the slightly and half-solidified metal that release the metal from the surfaces of the stationary side walls. Applying jerks to the casting chamber by varying the driving speed of the endless belt ensures that the solidifying metal will travel smoothly and thus ensures a high manufacturing yield.

Apparatus for casting endless strip

A mold additive for use in continuous casting, which includes a base material having a chemical composition of CaO--BaO--SiO.sub.2 --F system, and contains 2-15% by weight in total of at least one carbonate of alkali and alkaline earth metals, 2-30% by weight in total of at least one fluoride of alkali and alkaline earth metals and 0.2-10% by weight of carbon, and, if necessary, 2-10% by weight in total of at least one oxide of Fe, Mn and Ni, and has a solidification temperature of not more than 900.degree. C. and a viscosity at 1,300.degree. C. of not more than 3 poises. The base material has a weight ratio of (CaO+BaO)/SiO.sub.2 of 0.6-2.5 and contains not less than 2% by weight of BaO and 2-15% by weight of F.

Mold additives for use in continuous casting

A belt type cast sheet continuous caster of the type comprises a pair of opposed circulatorily movable belts, a pair of opposed side plates arranged along opposite side edge portions of the movable belts, coolers which each have numerous water feed openings and water discharge openings opened to the movable belt and are arranged behind the respective movable belts, and movable partition plates which are placed in respective cooling headers and each connected to driving means for moving the partition plates in a width direction of a cast sheet. A casting space is defined by the movable belt and the side plates. Melt leakage at sliding portions between mold short side plates and the metal belts in a belt type cast sheet continuous caster comprising the metal belts and the mold short side plates arranged along side edge portions of the metal belts and cooleres, which each have numerous water fed openings and water discharge openings opened to the metal belt and are arranged behind the respective metal belts, is prevented by controlling gaps between the metal belts and the mold short side plates through varying a pushing force of the metal belts to the mold short side plates.

Belt type cast sheet continuous caster and prevention of melt leakage in

Method and apparatus for casting endless strip

Continuous casting apparatus for the production of cast sheets

A cooling pad for use in a continuous casting apparatus for the production of cast sheets. The pad is provided with plural water supply and discharge holes satisfying the particular relations on the arrangement thereof. By using such a cooling pad, a filmy cooling water flow is uniformly and stably formed in the casting.

Cooling pad for use in a continuous casting apparatus for the production

A continuous casting apparatus for the production of cast sheets having a casting space defined by a pair of opposed endless belts and a pair of side plates arranged near the side edge portions of the belts while being brought into intimate contact therewith and designed to be converged toward a drawing direction. In this apparatus, a filmy water flow-forming pad arranged behind each of the belts, and each of the side plates are so profiled that the casting space inclusive of the tapered portion depicts a smooth curve at at least a transition area from the taper end portion to a constant thickness portion.

In a top-and-bottom blown converter having a plurality of tuyeres arranged at the bottom of converter housing, a monitoring sub-lance is vertically movable within a region defined beween vertical planes passing through parallel lines horizontally spaced a distance of 300 mm from a tuyere aligning line.

Top-and-bottom blown converter

Top-and-bottom blown converter steel making process

In the operation of a top-and-bottom blown converter, top-blowing oxygen gas is blown such that the center of a hot spot created by the oxygen gas jet from each of the nozzles of a top-blowing multi-nozzle lance is positioned outside a bubbling region of the molten metal surface which rising bubbles of gas from bottom-blowing tuyeres reach.

Method of operation of a top-and-bottom blown converter

In a method for cooling tuyeres when molten iron is refined by blowing a refining gas containing oxygen, and by setting tuyeres below or above the meniscus of iron bath in a vessel for refining the molten iron, wherein concentric tuyeres are used and a refining gas containing oxygen gas is blown through the inner pipe of the concentric tuyere and a fluid for protecting the tuyeres is blown through the outer pipe of the tuyere so that the protecting fluid surrounds the refining gas in a sheath form to cool the top ends of the tuyeres, the protecting fluid being a mixture of gaseous or liquid carbon dioxide and carbon fine particles.

Method for cooling tuyeres

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Tsutomu Nozaki