Method and device for continuous casting and subsequent forming of a steel billet, especially a billet in the form of an ingot or a preliminary section

US6892794B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SMS DEMAG LLC · DE

Inventors

• Adolf Zajber · Langenfeld, DE
• Thomas Fest · Duisburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2001
• Grant date: May 17, 2005
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/225
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The secondary cooling and the strand support are matched to the cooling state of a continuously cast strand cross section. The secondary cooling and support are reduced in dependence upon the solidification profile of the cast strand along the distance traveled.