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Sessions (20)

Some Sources of Variation in the Strength of Hot-Rolled Strip (Room 306)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Eugene Nikitenko
Variation in strength along the length of hot-rolled strip presents a challenge of complying with gauge tolerances at the cold mill. Such strength ... More...

Predictive Process Control — The Next Step to Quality Assurance (Room 306)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): August Sprock ; Michael Breuer ; Michael Peretic
During hot rolling of strips, process disturbances are common. Temperature drops caused by rolling delays or variations in the chemical composition... More...

In-Situ Observation and Formation Mechanism of Iron Surface Oxidation in the Initial Stages at 1,150°C (Room 306)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Bryan Webler ; Elyce Milligan ; Ming Zhong ; P. Chris Pistorius ; Yining He
This study examined the evolution in surface morphology during initial stages of iron and steel oxidation. Polished samples were oxidized from 2 to... More...

Holistic Approach of Real-Time Product Quality Management at New Integrated Steel Plant, Shandong Iron & Steel, Rizhao, China (Room 306)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Ingo Schuster ; Wolfgang Spies
In Rizhao, China, Shandong Iron & Steel built a new flat steel production facility with a capacity of 8.5 million tons per year. The entire plant, ... More...

Technical Solutions for Safe Handling of High-Strength Steel Coils (Room 306)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Christian Mengel ; Michael Peretic ; Thomas Holzhauer ; Ulrich Cramer
The production of high-strength steel grades in hot rolling mills is gaining more and more importance. The strip thicknesses of these materials rea... More...

Productivity Increase at ArcelorMittal Tubarao Hot Strip Mill (Room 306)

06 May 19
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Angelo Moreira ; Jose Fagundes Jr. ; Juliano Possatti
ArcelorMittal Tubarão HSM productivity has increased gradually and consistently over the last four years, based on increasing charging temperature,... More...

Modernization of Shandong Steel 1,700-mm Hot Strip Mill (Room 306)

06 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Changzong Hu ; Hai Yu ; Huaiping Niu ; Jingxin Wu ; Xiaogang Tian
Shandong Steel intends to build a 1,700-mm hot strip mill to produce thinner-specification, high-strength steel products. The customer is mostly co... More...

Induction Bar and Edge Heating Technology in the Hot Strip Mill (Room 306)

06 May 19
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Eiji Hashimoto ; Gary Gepitulan ; Hiroyuki Imanari ; Tetsuji Doizaki
This paper will present the application of high-frequency induction heating for the transfer bar in the hot strip mill. Edge heaters compensate for... More...

A Deep Probabilistic AI Framework for Predictive Quality Control (Room 306)

06 May 19
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Ajay Anand ; Atin Gupta ; Krishna Thapa ; Matthew Denesuk ; Santiago Olivar
We will present a Sense-Predict-Recommend framework for increasing product quality and minimizing out-of-tolerance rejection. The deep probabilisti... More...

New Finishing Mill Technology for the Production of Thin Hot Band (Room 306)

06 May 19
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Konrad Krimpelstaetter
The demands related to the capabilities of a conventional hot strip mill have changed in the last several years. In addition to a high level of pro... More...

Arvedi ESP: Reaching Maturity in Endless Casting and Rolling Technology (Room 306)

07 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Andi Jungbauer
Arvedi ESP is the first hot rolling process ever to produce cold-rolled substitutes in industrial scale, and a variety of final products are now p... More...

New Constructed Hot Strip Mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. in Vietnam (Room 306)

07 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Jo Iwatani ; Longze He ; Taroh Satoh
Commercial production started in at end of December 2015 at the hot strip mill line of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel (FHS), which is the first large integr... More...

New Control Concept for ESP Thin-Gauge Rolling Improves Thickness Quality (Room 306)

07 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Andreas Maierhofer ; Ansgar Gruess ; Daniel Kotzian
Hot rolling thin gauges without cold rolling tremendously reduces production costs. With Arvedi ESP (Endless Strip Production) lines achieving exit... More...

Temperature Setpoint Optimization in Steel Reheat Furnaces Using Open Architecture Neural Network and Modeling Software (Room 306)

07 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Justin Isaacs ; Ricky Vesel
Reheat furnaces are energy intensive operations that require control finesse to maintain the proper temperatures across a range of variables to mee... More...

Improving Rolling Mill Stability with Precision Flat Bearings (Room 306)

07 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Alexander Corts
This paper describes the transition to high-hardness compound steel wear plates for housing and chocks in rolling mills. Premature wear of liners h... More...

Feedback Control for Hook, Camber, Wedge and Strip Steering in a Hot Strip Mill (Room 306)

07 May 19
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Klaus Löhe ; Matthias Kurz ; Niklas Petrasch
New strip steering technologies have been activated at hot strip mill No. 1 of thyssenkrupp in Duisburg, Germany. The system consists of two main c... More...

Advanced Engineering Maximizes Efficiency and MTBR of Descaling Pumps (Room 306)

07 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Bob Jennings
Five BB3 pumps located in a major steel factory are currently under evaluation and repair with Hydro Inc. after years of catastrophic failures and ... More...

Optical Strip Flatness and Shape Measurement in Hot Strip Mills (Room 306)

07 May 19
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Hans Sollander ; Pär Kierkegaard
Laminar cooling is a critical process that, unless perfectly regulated, can have a detrimental impact on the finished product in terms of flatness ... More...

Innovation Cooling Model: The Future Starts Now (Room 306)

07 May 19
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Alexander Reljic ; Eduard Hermann ; Klaus Weinzierl
A revolutionary cooling model for hot strip mills computes — as a cyberphysical system — temperatures, enthalpies, phase fractions and microstructu... More...

Data-Driven Dynamic Feedforward Compensation Method for Coiling Temperature Control in Hot Strip Mills (Room 306)

07 May 19
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Atsushi Suzuki ; Naoki Shimoda ; Wen Xiong ; Yang Guiling
A data-driven feedforward compensation method based on system identification was applied on coiling temperature control in a hot strip mill. System... More...