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In hot rolling lines, different coil forms are used, depending on the slab or strip thickness (Fig. 2).
During longitudinal-field heating, the workpiece is completely surrounded by the coil. The resulting eddy currents
flow at the current penetration depth along the slab surface. It is to be recommended upstream or downstream of
the roller hearth furnace or downstream of the roughing
stand where there is still a sufficient strip thickness.
Thanks to their simple construction, these longitudinalfield inductors are very sturdy and suitable for use in rolling
mills and can therefore be easily integrated into the process.
Transverse-field heating, on the other hand, is used for
thin strips. A special coil construction ensures that the
induced currents do not neutralise one another on the
upper and lower sides of the thin strip. As even very thin
strips can be heated in this way, this method is employed
between the last finishing stands. There they can be moved
into or moved out of the process very flexibly.
The advantages of induction can be summarised as follows:
Energy consumption only during effective production
High power density over a short process length
Competitive price (investment and life cycle costs)
Independent of gas and oil as fuel
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niform heating of the slab with short heating time
and reduced scale formation.
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Fig. 1:
The principle of
induction heating
Inductor
Recooling system
Open-loop and closed-loop control unit.
The function of the mains transformer is to transform the
mains voltage into the operating voltage of the frequency
converter. The mains transformer acts as the link between
the customers mains power supply and the induction heating unit. The voltage supplied by the mains transformer
is a 3-phase AC voltage. By the frequency converter this
AC voltage is first transformed into DC voltage, and then
converted into single-phase AC voltage with the required
operating frequency.
The capacitors serve as a capacitive energy accumulator
and form the oscillating circuit together with the inductor,
in other words the inductive load. The inductor is a coil
which generates the magnetic field and hence transports
the alternating current from the oscillating circuit into the
workpiece. The inductor proper is water-cooled as it is not
Fig. 2:
Function of
longitudinal-field
and transverse-field
heating
Longitudinal-field heating for slabs > 5 mm
or slabs > 5 mm
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CONCLUSION
Induction heating is an energy-efficient process with a high
specific power density over short process lengths and can
thus be outstandingly integrated into or even retrofitted
in innovative minimill production lines.
A downstream induction temperature booster allows the
conventional furnace to be shortened and operated at lower
temperatures. This helps to maximise the service life of the
refractory material and of the furnace rollers. Furthermore, it
enables the use of non-cooled dry rollers which, with a given
production mix, allows an energy saving of around 10 %
compared with operation with cooled transport rollers.
At the same time the use of induction sustainably reduces the gas consumption of the roller hearth furnace, and
hence the CO2-emissions.
The flexible temperature control of the induction heating permits optimum inlet temperatures into the rolling
mill. The higher temperature level between the first two
mill stands permits a larger thickness reduction, the com-
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LITERATURE
[1] Newsletter Metec special edition June 2011
[2] Development and evaluation of inductive reheating concepts
in the hot rolling mill [Vogt: Elotherm; Master thesis 2011]
[3] Newsletter SMS group 3/2011
AUTHORS
Dipl.-Ing. Anis Abdurahman
SMS Elotherm GmbH
Remscheid, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)2191/ 891-319
a.abdurahman@sms-elotherm.com
Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Dirk M. Schibisch
SMS Elotherm GmbH
Remscheid, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)2191/ 891-300
d.schibisch@sms-elotherm.com
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