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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11454542-B2
Application number	US-202117243875-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2021
Priority date	Apr 25, 2017
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

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 N pieces of wavelengths different from one another 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 two temperatures out of the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers, wherein
N pieces of the wavelengths are determined so as to prevent an intersection point where hematite curves at N pieces of the wavelengths all intersect from being present within a range of an assumed thickness of hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ),
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite, and
N is an integer of three or more.

2. The scale composition determination system according to claim 1 , wherein
N pieces of the wavelengths are a first wavelength to an Nth wavelength,
each one wavelength selected from the first wavelength to the Nth wavelength is set to an nth wavelength,
a hematite curve at the nth wavelength is a curve indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite at the nth wavelength obtained by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite (FeO),
the at least one of radiation thermometers measures a temperature of the steel material at the nth wavelength by radiation thermometry with spectral emissivity set to spectral emissivity of wustite at the nth wavelength, and
the first wavelength to the Nth wavelength are determined so as to prevent an intersection point where hematite curves at the first wavelength to the Nth wavelength all intersect from being present within a range of an assumed thickness of hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ).

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 in at least one combination of combinations of two temperatures out of the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers, an absolute value of a difference between the temperatures 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 in at least one combination of combinations of two temperatures out of the temperatures of the steel material measured by the at least one of radiation thermometers, the absolute value of the difference between the temperatures 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
N pieces of the wavelengths are wavelengths in any two or more ranges out 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 N pieces of lights; and an extracting filter that extracts lights at N pieces of the wavelengths from the light divided by the dividing mirror, and temperatures of the steel material at N pieces of the 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 N pieces of wavelengths different from one another 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 two temperatures out of the temperatures of the steel material measured by the measurement step, wherein
N pieces of the wavelengths are determined so as to prevent an intersection point where hematite curves at N pieces of the wavelengths all intersect from being present within a range of an assumed thickness of hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ),
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite, and
N is an integer of three or more.

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 N pieces of wavelengths different from one another, 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 two temperatures out of the temperatures of the steel material acquired by the acquisition step, wherein
N pieces of the wavelengths are determined so as to prevent an intersection point where hematite curves at N pieces of the wavelengths all intersect from being present within a range of an assumed thickness of hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ),
the hematite curves are curves indicating the relationship between a thickness of hematite and a temperature of hematite, and
N is an integer of three or more.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

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

Classifications

• 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

• B21B38/00

  Methods or devices for measuring, {detecting or monitoring} specially adapted for metal-rolling mills, e.g. position detection, inspection of the product {(control devices or methods B21B37/00)} · CPC title

• G01N17/006 Primary

  of metals · CPC title

• G01N25/00

  Investigating or analyzing materials by the use of thermal means (G01N3/00 - G01N23/00 take precedence) · 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