Title

SBQ PRODUCTION WITH OPTIMIZED MACHINERY DESIGN AND PROCESS PARAMETERS OF THE 3-ROLL RSB SCS®

Authorship

Connell, Patrick Edward; Filippini, Sergio Antonio; Ellis, Glyn David

Connell, Patrick Edward

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Filippini, Sergio Antonio

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Ellis, Glyn David

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DOI

10.5151/1983-4764-26561

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Abstract

The next generation of the well-established 3-roll Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB), the RSB SCS® is the latest milestone in reducing and sizing technology for SBQ products. It offers enhanced bar quality, improved productivity, mill availability and economy as well as a simplified, safe and environmentally friendly operation. A newly developed modular drive concept of the RSB SCS® grants a smaller footprint in the layout, a reduced oil-lubrication volume and a simplified maintenance schedule. Intelligent engineering leads furthermore to reduced hydraulic functions of the RSB SCS®, which ensures a safe and environmentally friendly rolling. Another integral part of the RSB SCS® is an innovative stand changing concept, which allows automatic stand changing within three minutes. The new RSB SCS® also includes a Fast Remote Control (FRC) which enables the immediate adjustment of the roll gap against the rolling force (under load) within milliseconds. Size changes along the free-size range can also be made within the traditional billet gaps in less than five seconds. At the core of the future-oriented RSB SCS® is a real-time closed-loop control system called Size Control System (SCS®) acting with 3-roll stands adjustable under load (AUL) and / or the heavy duty stands. These features remarkably further improve the rolled tolerances and their reproducibility, and at the same time simplify the operation by means of an automated optimization of the process parameters for the rolled bars.

Keywords

Size control, Closed-loop control, Reducing & Sizing Block, RSB SCS®

RSB SCS®