Title

TMT-BBG HS 600 – OPTIMIZATION OF TAPHOLE DRILLING IN ECONOMICAL AND PERFORMANCE POINTS OF VIEW

Authorship

Bodeving, Claude; Flammang, Marc; Kruessmann, Mark; Cruz, Daniel Bastos Martins

Bodeving, Claude

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Flammang, Marc

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Kruessmann, Mark

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Cruz, Daniel Bastos Martins

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DOI

10.5151/2594-357X-27817

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Abstract

The present steel economy drastically increases the financial strain on blast furnace operators. As a consequence, the importance of reliable cast floor operations is increasing drastically, which has a direct influence on the required clay mass and tapping equipment performances. When using modern high performance clay masses, pneumatic taphole drilling machines quickly reach their performance limits, which has made fully hydraulic drill hammers a standard in modern cast house operation. Besides the well-established hydraulic TMT hammers with high impact energy, an alternative version with lower impact energy, but high impact frequency was developed by TMT in the past, in order to achieve improved taphole protection. TMT’s recent research has shown that the drilling requirements inflicted by the taphole condition change over the taphole length, which has triggered the development of a new hammer, capable of switching between a high impact frequency mode and a high impact energy mode.

Keywords

Taphole, Hammer, Drilling machine

Drilling machine