The Hot Rolling Process The primary function of the Hot Strip Mill is to reheat semi-finished steel slabs of steel nearly to their melting point, ... Critical to the Hot Strip Mill is its walking-beam reheat furnace, state-of-the art equipment that replaced and
Application: HSM Steel Manufacturing March 2008, Australia Bluescope Steel Hot Strip Mill Walking Beam Furnace luescope Steel is the largest manufacturer of Steel in Australia. It produces over 5 million tons of steel a year serving customers in the building and construction, manufacturing, automotive and packaging industries.
K&R has successfully completed shutdowns at the Plate Mill, Hot Strip Mill (Walking Beam Furnace) and Slabmaking. K&R has also gained valuable experience and hence been able to offer continuous support to many departments across the Port Kembla site.
Title: Debottlenecking Of Flow In A Hot Strip Mill Walking Beam Furnace, Authors: Habib D. Zughbi and Iain McDonald, from BlueScope Steel. This work focused on increasing heat capacity of the slab, by increasing flow of flue gases through the recuperator.
Hot Strip Mill 50% Export Slab 20% Plate Mill 10% C&BP Australia (Western Port) 20% Export HRC 15% C & BP Australia (Springhill) 60% Domestic HRC 25% Product Flow (Indicative) Castrip-BlueScope Steel-Nucor-IHI North Star BlueScope Steel 1.62mt HRCpa * "C&BP Australia" is Coated and Building Products Australia
walking beam furnace 1 A hot strip mill reheat furnace where the slab is repeatedly lifted and set down at a more forward point in the furnace; this is in contrast to a batch reheat furnace or a pusher-type reheat furnace.
Slab production was 610,400 tonnes, slightly down on last year's figure of 611,300 tonnes, due to scheduled maintenance work. Major scheduled shutdowns in the iron plant, steel plant and hot strip mill occurred during the second half-year.
Hot Strip Rolling and Finishing Mills . We produce hot rolled coil from slab in our hot strip mill. A walking beam furnace reheats slab, directs it to a -stand rolling mill .
Application: HSM Steel Manufacturing March 2008, Australia Bluescope Steel Hot Strip Mill Walking Beam Furnace luescope Steel is the largest manufacturer of Steel in Australia. It produces over 5 million tons of steel a year serving customers in the building and construction, manufacturing, automotive and packaging industries.
walking beam furnace 1 A hot strip mill reheat furnace where the slab is repeatedly lifted and set down at a more forward point in the furnace; this is in contrast to a batch reheat furnace or a pusher-type reheat furnace.
Premalube Extreme Heat Shield Lubemaster Bluescope Steel Case Study PROBLEM: Bluescope Steel Hot Strip Mill Walking Beam Furnace The discharge table rolls are affected by extreme temperatures because of their close proximity to the discharge doors of the furnace.
using XLERPLATE® steel. Each steel beam length, and consequently ... the Hot Strip Mill at the BlueScope Port Kembla Steelworks. As the declared unit of 1 kilogram ... Steelmaking (BF/BOS), which BlueScope uses, and Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking, which uses a .
Premalube Extreme Heat Shield Lubemaster Bluescope Steel Case Study PROBLEM: Bluescope Steel Hot Strip Mill Walking Beam Furnace The discharge table rolls are affected by extreme temperatures because of their close proximity to the discharge doors of the furnace.
Fast dynamic heat and mass balance model of walking beam reheat furnace with two-dimensional slab temperature profile V. Panjkovic* and R. Gloss
Already the largest integrated iron and steel production company in Mexico, AHMSA produced 3.6 million tons per year. The company decided to increase production capacity by 40 percent with a new steel plant, hot mill plant, blast furnace, and oxygen plant near its major iron and coal mining operation in Baja California Sur.
3 days ago· Each walking beam furnace will be able to produce 500 tons of steel per hour, a 40 percent increase in productivity. ... operations technology manager of the 80-inch hot strip mill. "In addition ...
The strip is cleaned to remove grease, oil and iron oxide before traveling through the annealing furnace (with a hydrogen and nitrogen atmosphere) to anneal or stress relieve to the specified strength. The strip travels into the molten metal through the "snout", where it emerges below the surface of the metal.
A semi-finished steel form, with a rectangular cross-section that is more than 8". This large cast steel shape is broken down in the mill to produce the familiar I-beams, H-beams, and sheet piling. Blooms are also part of the high-quality bar manufacturing process: Reduction of a bloom to a much smaller cross-section can improve the
The hot rolled steel universal beams from BlueScope Distribution are manufactured to exceed AS/NZS 3679.1 Grade 300, which is the standard grade manufactured nationally for welded products.
You can rely on Australia's experts in steel Page 1 steel - MeeTinG THe neeDs of An eVolVinG linepipe inDUsTrY David Langley – Industry Manager, Water, Oil & Gas, BlueScope Steel Limited ... steel making practices and hot strip processing, to achieve sufficient levels of strength, weldability ... beam furnace. The slab extraction rate and ...
Stein horizontal furnaces for strip processing lines cover a full range of steel grade applications, such as building, white goods, non-exposed automotive parts, full hard, hot rolled products, etc. The furnaces feature low operation costs, shorter shutdowns during maintenance and easier operation.
BlueScope Steel, Australia, for their invaluable advice when the project was ... The effects of hot rolling on the surface roughness and oxide layers such as reduction, roll speed, and entry temperature, were investigated to identify any ... Figure 1.1 Outline of a hot strip mill with coil box on the transfer table 3
The additional hot rolled coil production will help to support the expansion of BlueScope Steel's downstream steel coating and painting facilities and also assist in meeting demand for flat steel products. Air-ride Wind has fabricated five hot air ducts and a section of the stack for the new walking beam reheat furnace. Mainteck Services, a ...
Troy Bates. Management Operating Systems Coordinator at BlueScope Steel. Location Wollongong, Australia Industry Mining & Metals
This has been a record-breaking year for BlueScope Steel's Hot Rolled Products business segment. These businesses are Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales, Australia, and our joint venture interests in the United States - North Star BlueScope Steel in Delta, Ohio, and Castrip LLC. ... Construction of a second Walking Beam Furnace, at an ...
A fast dynamic heat and mass balance model of a walking beam reheat furnace was developed and validated with the data from a 275 t h 21 industrial furnace. The model divides the furnace into
BLUESCOPE STEEL - Australia STELCO STEEL (Lake Eire Works) - Canada ... A 45° angle with the beam axis crossing the center of the strip provides maximum beam blockage. Installation photo.jpg. Face to Face - Horizontal Installation ... Detection of slab within the reheat furnace, Hot product tracking. Hot Strip Mill - Plate Mill - Cold Rolling ...
the Bluescope Steel Springhill Workplace Agreement 2012 (Springhill Agreement) in relation to the introduction of workplace change, namely whether the change is safe, efficient, legal and fair .
The new Sheet and coil product guide details the comprehensive range hot rolled, cold rolled, metallic coated and pre-painted coil products supplied by BlueScope Steel.
The slabs cool outside before being reheated in the reheat furnace. The slab (210 mm thick and weighing over 10 tonnes) is then transferred into the reversing rougher mill and is reduced in thickness with each pass. The steel is rolled down to about 25 mm when it is coiled in the coil box (to retain heat).