Metallurgy, Vol. 61 No. 3-4, 2022.
Original scientific paper
Numerical simulation study on the influence of current stabilizer on tundish flow field
Y. F. Yao
; Ansteel Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., Anshan city, Liaoning province, China
Z. S. Zhang
; School of mechanical engineering and automation, University of Science and Technology of Liaoning, Anshan City, Liaoning province, China
Abstract
The software ProCAST is used to simulate the flow field in the tundish. In the tundish without current regulator, the long nozzle injection impacts the tundish bottom directly, which is easy to cause damage to the refractory. The molten steel flow diffuses far along the bottom, and the disturbance is large near the submerged nozzle. The maximum speed at the bottom can reach 0.8m/s, and the general flow trend is that the injection flow direction is upward from the bottom to both sides, which is not conducive to the upward floating of inclusions. In the tundish with current stabilizer, the velocity of the injection decreases rapidly under the action of the liquid steel contained in the current stabilizer. Due to the attenuation of injection kinetic energy, the scouring effect on the bottom of tundish is obviously smaller and the flow field is more stable.
Keywords
steel; continuous casting; tundish; nozzle analysis; numerical simulation
Hrčak ID:
273815
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Publication date:
1.7.2022.
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