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Title

DEVELOPMENT OF IN-LINE ISOTHERMAL COOLING TECHNOLOGY IN WIRE ROD MILL

Authorship

See, Seongkyu; Lee, Joon-Tae; Kim, Wan-sub; Park, Yong-Kyu

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Lee, Joon-Tae

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Kim, Wan-sub

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Park, Yong-Kyu

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DOI

10.5151/9785-9785-32332

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Abstract

Softening heat treatment of CHQ alloy steel (Cr-Mo Steel) is a bottleneck process that requires 90% or more of the entire manufacturing process. In order to reduce the property deviation between edge and center and remove the low-temperature structure problems, CHQ products is heat treated by customers. This technology comes from the idea to solve the problem by applying the concept of “In-line isothermal transformation through initial quenching + heat source addition. Consider the stability of field operations, durability from high ambient temperature and fall of scale, Instantaneous heating and cooling control was required for the conversion of slow cooling and rapid cooling products. An electric heater system was applied to the underside of Stelmor air-cooling nozzle. Using the Scan Pyrometer, the feedback control was performed and fine temperature control was performed through the thermocouple by zone. Through the this technology, it is possible to develop and expand products that can be shortened or omitted by the heat treatment process of customers.

Keywords

Heating, Cooling, Heat treatment, Wire rod