• ICROS
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.14-20
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.242-245
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• 2007

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.100-106
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• 2017

The materials of SUS304 and SS400 are adopted for prediction of workpiece temperature variation according to ambient temperature in a reheating furnace. Five thermocouples were installed in a depth direction inside the material, and the ambient temperature was raised to 1200 Celsius degrees. As a result, the material average temperature reached more than 1150 Celsius degrees, and the surface and inside of workpiece locally showed a temperature difference of more than 10K. In order to verify the experimental results, numerical analysis was conducted by applying a thermal model, and the error of numerical simulation compared with the experimental results was within the range of 15K at the average outlet temperature. Also, the error was relatively higher in the SS400 material, which has a larger specific heat change than the SUS304 material. In conclusion, the workpiece temperature in the reheating furnace can be achieved through the atmospheric temperature control, and it is experimentally proved that the material temperature change according to the atmospheric temperature can be estimated within about 3% error range at the outlet position using a thermal model.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.229-234
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• 2006

The oxy-fuel combustion heating characteristics is investigated experimentally by measuring furnace and steel temperature variations for batch type furnace simulator with a specially designed low NOx oxy-fuel burner. Economics of using oxy-fuel combustion is confirmed and, the furnace and steel temperature variations for different heating conditions are compared to deduce optimal heating control pattern for energy savings and rapid uniform heating. High $CO_2$ concentration (> 80-90%), low NOx (< 40ppm) and CO (< 10ppm) are measured in the flue gas. Temperature differences (< $30^{circ}C$) inside the furnace and steel are reduced relatively by increasing the burner jet momentum.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.590-591
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• 1988

In this paper computer control system is introduced for the reheating furnace in steel making process, and in order to support computer system and process operation, the configuration of expert system application is demonstrated breefly, which is under development.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.1006-1012
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• 2010

The hot rolling process ranks the highest position for production in steel making process. The hot strip manufacturing processes consist of the reheating furnace, roughing and finishing mill and coiler. The reheating furnace heats the slab. The roughing and finishing mill produce the hot strip from slab. The hot strip quality mainly depends on finishing mill, which consists of 4-high 7 stands. The looper is installed between stands and is used for controlling the strip tension by the looper angle for better material flow. It is difficult to control the strip tension with the coupled looper system from interaction between the looper angle and strip tension. Too much deviation of strip tension severely affects the poor width quality of the hot strip. It is important to control simultaneously both the looper angle and strip tension with each of their target values. This paper proposes the fuzzy tension control, which is developed to minimize the width deviation of the hot strip by maintaining the proper strip tension between stands and to achieve the stable operation of the coupled looper system. The fuzzy tension control performance is compared with the conventional PID control by experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.2513-2515
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• 2000

The Hot Strip Mill(HSM) process consists of reheating furnace, roughing mill, finishing mill and coiler. Reheating furnace heats slab and roughing mill, finishing mill produces strip from this slab. The quality of this production mainly depends on finishing mill, which consists of 6 or 7 stands. Between stands a looper is installed for the better material flow. Automatic gage control(AGC), speed control system and looper system, which are connected with each other, are the main control systems for HSM. The low strip tension can make a loop between stands, which can be caused cobble. On the other hand, high strip tension causes thickness and width reduction, which affects the product quality, and can lead to tear the strip, if it is too high. Because of it, a proper strip tension is needed for better material flow: e.g. A good looper control system is substantial for the better production quality. What is handled in this paper is, the looper controller, which is developed to minimize the fluctuation of width of strip by maintaining an appropriate strip tension between stands and to achieve the stability of the looper control system. And its performance compared with a conventional PID controller is also discussed. The difficulties associated with the maintenance of the constant tension are described.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.69-74
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• 2006

An Experimental study was conducted on $CO_2$ recycle combustion heating system using pure oxygen instead of conventional air as an oxidant, which is thereby producing a flue gas of mostly $CO_2$ and water vapor($H_2O$) and resulting in higher $CO_2$ concentration. The advantages of the system are not only the ability to control high temperatures characteristic of oxygen combustion with recycling $CO_2$. but also the possibility to reduce NOx emission in the flue gas. A small scale industrial reheating furnace simulator and specially designed variable flame burner were used to characterize the $CO_2$ recycle oxy-fuel combustion, such as the variations of furnace pressure, temperature and composition in the flue gas during recycle. It was found that $CO_2$ concentration in the flue gas was about 80% without $CO_2$ recycle, but increased to $90{\sim}95%$ with $CO_2$ recycle. The furnace temperature and pressure was decreased due to recycle and the NOx emission was also reduced to maintain under 100ppm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.07a
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• pp.98-100
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• 1989

In this paper, computer control system is introduce for the reheating furnace in the hot rolling process, and in order to support computer control system and process operation, the configuration of expert system application is demonstrated breefly, which is under fine tuning.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.46 no.11
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• pp.737-746
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• 2008

Mechanisms of sticking phenomena occurring during hot rolling of a modified STS 430J1L ferritic stainless steel have been investigated in this study by using a pilot-plant-scale rolling machine. As the rolling pass proceeds, the Fe-Cr oxide layer formed in a reheating furnace is destroyed, and the destroyed oxides penetrate into the rolled steel to form a thin oxide layer on the surface region. The sticking does not occur on the surface region containing oxides, whereas it occurs on the surface region without oxides by the separation of the rolled steel at high temperatures. This indicates that the resistance to sticking increases by the increase in the surface hardness when a considerable amount of oxides are formed on the surface region, and that the sticking can be evaluated by the volume fraction and distribution of oxides formed on the surface region. The lubrication and the increase of the rolling speed and rolling temperature beneficially affect to the resistance to sticking because they accelerate the formation of oxides on the steel surface region. In order to prevent or minimize the sticking, thus, it is suggested to increase the thickness of the oxide layer formed in the reheating furnace and to homogeneously distribute oxides along the surface region by controlling the hot-rolling process.