Scale composition determination system, scale composition determination method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11029212-B2
Application number	US-201816499812-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2018
Priority date	Apr 25, 2017
Publication date	Jun 8, 2021
Grant date	Jun 8, 2021

Abstract

A scale composition determination device (10) determines that Fe2O3 has been generated in the outermost layer of a scale (SC) in the case where the absolute value of a difference between temperatures of a steel material SM measured by radiation thermometers (20a, 20b) is equal to or more than a predetermined temperature, and determines that Fe2O3 has not been generated in the outermost layer of the scale (SC) in the case where the absolute value of the difference between the temperatures of the steel material SM measured by the radiation thermometers (20a, 20b) is not equal to or more than the predetermined temperature.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A scale composition determination system that determines a composition of a scale generated on a surface of a steel material, the scale composition determination system comprising:
a computer processor including processing circuitry; and
at least one of radiation thermometers, each of the at least one of radiation thermometers including a respective light collecting lens that measures temperatures of the steel material at two wavelengths different from each other by radiation thermometry, wherein
the computer processor determines whether or not hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ) has been generated in an outermost layer of the scale based on a difference between the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers,
a thickness of hematite at an intersection point of a hematite curve at, out of the two wavelengths, a first wavelength and a hematite curve at a second wavelength is determined so as to exceed an upper limit value of a thickness assumed as a thickness of hematite generated in the outermost layer of the scale, and
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite.

2. The scale composition determination system according to claim 1 , wherein
the hematite curve at the first wavelength is a curve indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite at the first wavelength obtained by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite (FeO),
the hematite curve at the second wavelength is a curve indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite at the second wavelength obtained by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite (FeO), and
the at least one of radiation thermometers measures a temperature of the steel material at the first wavelength by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite at the first wavelength and measures a temperature of the steel material at the second wavelength by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite at the second wavelength.

3. The scale composition determination system according to claim 1 , wherein
the computer processor determines that hematite has been generated in the outermost layer of the scale in the case where an absolute value of the difference between the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and determines that hematite has not been generated in the outermost layer of the scale in the case where the absolute value of the difference between the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers is not equal to or more than the predetermined value.

4. The scale composition determination system according to claim 1 , wherein
the steel material being an object for measuring the temperature is a steel material obtained after being extracted in a heating furnace in a hot rolling process and being subjected to descaling at least one time.

5. The scale composition determination system according to claim 4 , wherein
the two wavelengths are any two of a wavelength in a range of 0.6 [μm] to 1.6 [μm], a wavelength in a range of 3.3 [μm] to 5.0 [μm], and a wavelength in a range of 8.0 [μm] to 14.0 [μm].

6. The scale composition determination system according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the at least one of radiation thermometers includes: a light collecting lens; a dividing mirror that divides light that has entered through the light collecting lens into two lights; and an extracting filter that extracts lights at the two wavelengths from the light divided by the dividing means, and temperatures of the steel material at the two wavelengths extracted by the extracting filter are measured by radiation thermometry.

7. A scale composition determination method that determines a composition of a scale generated on a surface of a steel material, the scale composition determination method comprising:
a measurement step of measuring temperatures of the steel material at two wavelengths different from each other by radiation thermometry; and
a determination step of determining whether or not hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ) has been generated in an outermost layer of the scale based on a difference between the temperatures of the steel material measured by the measurement step, wherein
a thickness of hematite at an intersection point of a hematite curve at, out of the two wavelengths, a first wavelength and a hematite curve at a second wavelength is determined so as to exceed an upper limit value of a thickness assumed as a thickness of hematite generated in the outermost layer of the scale, and
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium recording a program, executable by a computer processor including processing circuitry, for causing a computer to execute determination of a composition of a scale generated on a surface of a steel material, the program causing a computer to execute:
an acquisition step of acquiring temperatures of the steel material at two wavelengths different from each other, the temperatures measured by radiation thermometry; and
a determination step of determining whether or not hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ) has been generated in an outermost layer of the scale based on a difference between the temperatures of the steel material acquired by the acquisition step, wherein
a thickness of hematite at an intersection point of a hematite curve at, out of the two wavelengths, a first wavelength and a hematite curve at a second wavelength is determined so as to exceed an upper limit value of a thickness assumed as a thickness of hematite generated in the outermost layer of the scale, and
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Tanei Hiroshi
• Sugiura Masato
• Yamazaki Shuichi
• Kondo Yasumitsu

Classifications

• G01J5/485

  Temperature profile · CPC title

• G01N21/31

  Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry {(G01N21/72 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G01J5/0022

  for sensing the radiation of moving bodies · CPC title

• B21C51/00

  Measuring, gauging, indicating, counting, or marking devices specially adapted for use in the production or manipulation of material in accordance with subclasses B21B - B21F · CPC title

• G01J5/0846 Primary

  having multiple detectors for performing different types of detection, e.g. using radiometry and reflectometry channels · CPC title