Slab Casting
Slab Casting

SLAB CASTING — SUPERIOR SOLUTIONS FROM THE WORLD’S LEADING SUPPLIER

As one of the original pioneers of slab-casting technology, Primetals Technologies today offers a comprehensive range of integrated equipment and system solutions to ensure high productivity, fast start-ups, short ramp-up times to full production and maximum casting flexibility.

Compact and modularly designed slab casters from Primetals Technologies, well proven in more than 400 references worldwide, are distinguished by advanced technological packages and highest-quality casting equipment and components. Individual solutions can be developed to meet specific customer requirements – from minor component upgrades to full turnkey slab caster projects. The capability to cast a wide range of steel grades, slab thicknesses and slab widths on the same casting machine allows producers to quickly adapt to changing market demands.

Slab Casting

In the past five years, Primetals Technologies has supplied 45% of all new slab casters worldwide and carried out over 65% of all slab caster upgrading projects. Compact and modularly designed slab casters from Primetals Technologies feature the world’s most advanced technological packages as well as special casting equipment and components. Primetals Technologies' modular approach allows us to find solutions to fit our client needs – from minor component upgrades to turnkey projects throughout the whole process of slab casting.
 

Profit from the main benefits of Primetals Technologies slab casting solutions:  

  • Top quality and productivity coupled with increased yield
  • Connect & Cast packages ensuring rapid ramp-ups
  • High flexibility with regard to product requirements
  • Service and support from plant start-up through the entire lifecycle of the plant
     

Primetals Technologies’ slab casters include SmartMold with DynaWidth hydraulic width adjustment, DynaFlex Oscillator, Smart Segments and DynaGap Soft Reduction, as well as integrated automation and quality control systems.

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Electrics and automation for continuous casting

Sophisticated automation packages are prerequisite for state-of-the-art quality steelmaking. Primetals Technologies has always been a driver of innovation in this area, especially also providing expert technological packages and models that cover all aspects of the continuous casting process.

This capability is impressively demonstrated by recent advancements in automation solutions from Primetals Technologies that include: DynaPhase, Dynacs 3D, and DynaGap Soft Reduction 3D. This state-of-the-art suite of dynamic secondary cooling and soft-reduction packages take into account thermodynamic effects such as shrinkage and phase transitions, and thereby significantly contribute to direct quality improvements during the solidification phase in the continuous casting process.

The Mold Expert breakout predetection system increases plant availability and decreases maintenance time by prompt alarming. Thanks to its superior performance the Mold Expert system has become the world’s leading system for mold monitoring, with close to 200 installations worldwide. In addition to breakout prevention, Mold Expert provides an ever increasing number of expert packages that are used to detect possible surface defects and inform operators about challenging casting conditions.

The well proven LevCon mold level control package adapts reliably and extremely quickly to mold level fluctuations and changing casting conditions. This is made possible by advanced model-based control algorithms that can actually look into the near future to avoid disturbances in the control loop. Unsteady bulging is actively suppressed by a powerful algorithm based on modern control theory. The intelligent interaction between the advanced software and highly robust mechanical components improves safety and brings plant operators one step closer to fully automatic casting operation.

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Further highlighted technological packages and process experts

  • DynaWidth: Width adjustment with highest accuracy and fast speed 
  • Quality Expert: a milestone in improved quality supervision, quality prediction and control 
  • Yield Expert: cut length/weight optimization for minimized scrap and optimized yield
  • Intermix Expert: precisely determination of the mixing area of two different grades on the strand
  • Nozzle Expert: highest accuracy in detecting clogged nozzles and broken hoses
  • Speed Expert: optimal casting speed for increased throughput and improved quality
  • DynaFlex: hydraulic Oscillator for perfect surface quality

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TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION PACKAGES

Get striking results with incremental investments

NameShort Description
Mold Checker 3D measurement for the inner shape of continuous casting molds
Automatic Thermocouple Checker Automatic sensor test for breakout prediction system for continuous casting
LiquiRob for Casting Robotic solution for continuous casting machines
Mold Expert Fiber Live view into caster mold based on fiber optic technology
Smart Bender and Smart Segments Precise support and guiding of strand during solidification
Star Rollers Different roller types to meet all needs of ideal intermediate support
DynaTac High-temperature casting package for reduced or no-spray cooling.
DynaJet Flex Pulse-width modulated cooling for exact cooling of slab edges
LevCon Mold-level control with highest precision for continuous casting
DynaFlex Hydraulic mold oscillator for continuous casting
DynaWidth Dynamic mold width adjustment for continuous slab casters
Mold Expert Breakout pre-detection and mold monitoring
CC Optimizer Process optimization (Level 2) for continuous casting
Smart Mold High-performance cassette-type mold
Powder Expert Feeder with high precision powder control in the caster mold
Automatic Segment Checker Verification of casting segment condition in maintenance
OPAL Optical measurement for alignment of segment rolls in caster.
Single Roll DynaGap (SRD) Segment Dynamic alignment of individual roll gap for change of steel grade, cooling, superheating, and casting speed
OsciMon Online monitoring of mold oscillation in continuous casting machines
Taper Checker Measurement for taper adjustment for slab casters
OsciChecker Portable device for mold oscillation measurement in continuous casting machines
Lance Checker Test and diagnosis system for liquid iron and steel measuring devices
Torch Cutting Machine Fully integrated and optimized torch cutting solution

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