Background
At present, the modern steel and iron united enterprise basically adopts the continuous casting process in production, and the secondary cooling control is an important component of the continuous casting process. In the continuous casting process, the heat dissipated by the casting blank in the secondary cooling area (secondary cooling area for short) accounts for 60% of the heat dissipated by the casting blank in the solidification process, and directly influences the yield and quality of the casting blank. The surface temperature of the casting blank is an important parameter for adjusting the flow of cooling water, controlling the blank drawing speed and determining the depth of a liquid cavity. In order to know the running state of the casting blank in the continuous casting process and implement automatic control, the surface temperature of the casting blank at the outlet of the crystallizer, in the vicinity of the fan-shaped section and the straightening point needs to be detected.
In the prior art, the temperature of the continuous casting blank is generally measured by a point measurement method, namely a non-contact type temperature measuring instrument is used for measuring the surface temperature of the casting blank discontinuously at a certain point of a secondary cooling area. The temperature error of the surface of the casting blank measured by the temperature measurement method is very large, and the whole temperature change condition of the casting blank in the secondary cooling area of continuous casting cannot be reflected, and the reason is that:
as is known to all, the temperature of a continuous casting blank in a secondary cooling area is extremely high, a water film and an iron scale are formed on the surface of the casting blank in the cooling process, water vapor can diffuse on the surface of the casting blank, and the water vapor, the water film and the iron scale on the surface of the casting blank and the like make it difficult to accurately measure the surface temperature of the casting blank by using a point measurement method.
In addition, the temperature of the casting blank at each key point in the secondary cooling area is not measured point by point, because the temperature of the casting blank at each point is changed every moment, continuous casting process parameters suitable for the casting blank are difficult to be worked out according to the temperature of each point of the casting blank in the secondary cooling area,
disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide a method for continuously and accurately measuring the surface temperature of a casting blank at the same time in a continuous casting secondary cooling area.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following design scheme:
the temperature measuring method consists of two parts, one is a temperature measuring method for continuously measuring the surface temperature of a casting blank in a secondary cooling area at a single point or multiple points, and the other is a method for processing the measured temperature data to find out the accurate temperature of the casting blank at the measured position. The temperature measuring method comprises the following steps:
A. continuously measuring the temperature through a temperature measuring system and transmitting the measured temperature data to a computer:
a. at the position of the continuous casting machine where the temperature of the casting blank needs to be accurately measured, preferably, a continuous temperature measuring instrument is fixedly arranged on the passing casting blank to continuously measure the temperature of the casting blank in a non-contact way;
b. the temperature measuring instrument transmits signals to a computer, namely, the signal output end of the temperature measuring instrument is connected with a communication port of the computer, so that the temperature signals of the casting blank measured by the temperature measuring instrument are continuously transmitted to the computer.
B. The method for determining the real temperature of the surface of the casting blank comprises the following steps:
a. the computer takes out a plurality of temperature data acquired at one temperature measuring point in a time interval;
b. comparing the plurality of acquired temperature data, and acquiring the maximum temperature data;
c. and outputting the obtained maximum temperature data as a processing result, such as storing the maximum temperature data in a disk file or printing the maximum temperature data out or displaying the maximum temperature data through a display.
The signal output end of the temperature measuring instrument can be connected with the communication port of the computer in a serial or parallel mode.
In order to comprehensively reflect the temperature of the continuous casting billet in the secondary cooling area, the thermometers can be respectively arranged in a crystallizer outlet area, a fan-shaped section, a straightening section and a horizontal section of the continuous casting machine and are all connected with the computer. By means of the temperature measuring system, the surface temperatures of the casting blanks at all points in the two cooling areas can be continuously reflected at the same time. The thermometers can also be arranged in a plurality of transverse directions of the casting blank at the straightening section of the continuous casting machine at certain intervals. The temperature measuring instruments can also be arranged in a crystallizer outlet area, a fan-shaped section area, a straightening section area and a horizontal section area in the longitudinal direction of the continuous casting machine, and a plurality of temperature measuring instruments are arranged in the casting blank transverse direction of the straightening section area at certain intervals. And the temperature data acquired by each temperature measuring instrument is transmitted to the computer, and the computer is used for processing the temperature data acquired by each temperature measuring instrument.
The mechanism for accurately measuring the surface temperature of the casting blank in the secondary cooling area by the temperature measuring method provided by the invention is as follows: in the actual continuous casting process, the surface of the casting blank is often covered by a water film, steam fog, iron scale and the like, the temperature of the surface of the casting blank is measured, the temperature of the water film or the iron scale attached to the surface of the casting blank is likely to be measured, but the covering of the water film, the steam fog or the iron scale on the casting blank is not continuous, and the casting blank passing through within a certain time period is not completely covered within the range of a target point of a thermodetector, so that the real surface temperature of the casting blank is rapidly collected into a computer when the uncovered part of the surface of the casting blank appears in the temperature measuring target point of the thermodetector at a certain moment in the time interval. This is the purpose of the method according to the invention of continuously measuring the temperature at one point of the casting machine by means of a temperature measuring device, i.e. of capturing the instantaneous actual surface temperature of the uncovered surface of the cast strand. Since the temperature of the surface of the cast strand covered by the water film, the steam mist or the iron scale should be lower than the temperature of the surface of the cast strand not covered, the actual temperature of the surface of the cast strand must be the highest temperature value measured in the time interval. Therefore, an algorithm for selecting the maximum value of several measured temperature data as the true surface temperature of the cast slab in a time interval is scientific.
According to the temperature measurement principle, it is critical to set a proper time interval for obtaining the real temperature of the surface of the casting blank, and the proper time interval can be 30 seconds to 5 minutes generally according to the covering condition of the casting blank in the secondary cooling area by a water film and/or steam fog and/or iron scale. Further, preferably in the range of 30 seconds to 2 minutes, the possibility of capturing the true temperature of the uncovered slab surface in such a time interval is high. If the time interval is too small, the uncovered surface of the casting blank may not pass through the target point of the temperature measurement of the temperature measuring instrument, but if the time interval is too long, the temperature measurement efficiency is reduced, and the continuous casting process parameters cannot be adjusted timely through the measurement result.
In addition, other factors affecting accurate temperature measurement include:
the response time of the temperature measuring system is the time for the temperature measuring instrument to measure a temperature and then transmit the temperature to the computer, and the size of the response time has great influence on accurate temperature measurement. The response time of the temperature measuring system is generally required to be 300 milliseconds to 2 seconds.
And the temperature measuring distance is the vertical distance between a temperature measuring head of the temperature measuring instrument and the surface of the continuous casting billet. It may typically be between 0.5 and 5 meters.
The target spot of the temperature measuring instrument is small because the uncovered part on the casting blank is likely to be small, and if the target spot is too large, the target spot is difficult to capture, and the accuracy of the measured temperature is reduced. The target point of the thermometer is preferably no larger than 5 mm in diameter.
In addition, the temperature measuring range of the used temperature measuring instrument is within 600-2000 ℃, and the maximum error is preferably less than 1%.
The method for accurately measuring the surface temperature of the casting blank in the continuous casting secondary cooling area is characterized in that a plurality of thermometers arranged in the continuous casting secondary cooling area are connected with a computer, temperature data are simultaneously and continuously transmitted to the computer, the computer takes the maximum value of the temperature data obtained in a time interval to process, so that the real surface temperature of the casting blank in the secondary cooling area can be simultaneously and continuously reflected, the blank drawing speed of the continuous casting machine can be effectively regulated and controlled through the temperature, and the flow of cooling water is adjusted, so that the yield and the quality of the continuous casting blank are improved.
Detailed Description
As shown in figure 1, a temperature measuring instrument 2 is respectively arranged in a crystallizer outlet area A, a fan-shaped section area B, a straightening section area C and a horizontal section area D of a continuous casting machine, and the signal output end of the temperature measuring instrument is connected with a communication port of a computer 1 to form a temperature measuring system, so that temperature signals of a casting blank 3 measured by the temperature measuring instrument are continuously transmitted to the computer 1. The temperature measuring instrument 2 is arranged above the casting blank 3, and the distance from the surface of the casting blank is 1 m. The response time of the thermometry system is 400 milliseconds. The target spot of the thermometer was 2 mm in diameter.
The temperature is continuously measured by the temperature measuring system and the measured temperature data is transmitted to the computer. The computer obtains a plurality of temperature data of each temperature measuring point in a time interval for comparison, and the maximum temperature data is obtained; and outputting the obtained maximum temperature data as a processing result, such as storing the maximum temperature data in a disk file or printing the maximum temperature data out or displaying the maximum temperature data through a display. The time interval is 2 minutes.
As shown in fig. 2, the temperature measuring devices 2 may be arranged several, for example four, in the transverse direction of the straightening zone of the slab 3: a ' is provided with a temperature measuring instrument 2 at a position A ' which is less than or equal to 10 mm away from one side edge of the casting blank, a temperature measuring instrument 2 is respectively provided at a middle point C ' of the whole casting blank and a position B ' 1/4 of the casting blank width between A ' and C ', and a fourth temperature measuring instrument is provided at a position D ' which is 1/8 of the casting blank width away from the other edge in the width direction of the casting blank.
The method for measuring the temperature and the method for processing the collected temperature data are as before. The time interval was 4 minutes and the response time was 1 second. The temperature measurement distance is 3 meters.
The thermometers can be arranged on the continuous casting machine in the longitudinal direction as shown in figure 1, and in the transverse direction as shown in figure 2, so that more comprehensive system temperature data of the casting blank can be obtained.