Proceedings of the Seminar on Rolling, Metal Forming and Products


ISSN 2594-5297

52º Seminário de Laminação vol. 52, num.52 (2015)


Title

INLINE MONITORING OF PHASE TRANSFORMATION IN HOT STRIP MILL

DOI

10.5151/1983-4764-26301

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Abstract

In the manufacturing of steel strip for the automotive sector, the mechanical properties are largely defined by the process conditions in the hot strip mill. In particular the phase transformation, from austenite to ferrite, which takes place during the forced cooling stages on the run out table (ROT) after the finishing mill, governs the microstructure and hence the mechanical properties.In current practice, metallurgical models are used to predict the phase state at each position in the strip. These model predictions are supported by pyrometer measurements along the ROT. Although reliable in the majority of the situations, both measurements and models sometimes have difficulties in providing robust output. In this paper, we present a new type of inline measurement, which directly measures the amount of phase transformed. The instrument is based on a technique known as impedance spectroscopy. As result of a collaboration of different institutes and companies, the equipment is robustly running during several years exclusively in the Hot Strip Mill of Tata Steel in IJmuiden.

 

Keywords

Hot strip mill, Phase transformation, Inline monitoring, Impedance spectroscopy

Impedance spectroscopy

How to refer

Berg, Frenk van den; Yang, Haibing; Mosk, Jos; Peyton, Tony; Hunt, Peter. INLINE MONITORING OF PHASE TRANSFORMATION IN HOT STRIP MILL , p. 125-134. In: 52º Seminário de Laminação, Rio de Janeiro, 2015.
ISSN: 2594-5297 , DOI 10.5151/1983-4764-26301