Apparatus for removing foreign matter on hot-rolled steel strip

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025100021-A1
Application number	US-202318730847-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 4, 2023
Priority date	Dec 20, 2022
Publication date	Mar 27, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus of removing foreign substances from a hot-rolled steel strip, including a reverse direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water in the reverse direction of a moving direction of the strip toward the strip moving to the entrance of the winder by the side guide, wherein the reverse direction injection unit includes a plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles arranged along a width direction of the strip to inject high-pressure water to an upper surface of the strip, and the plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles is arranged such that an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in a central area along the above arrangement direction is narrower than an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in both edge areas.

First claim

1 . An apparatus of removing foreign substances from a hot-rolled steel strip configured to prevent the foreign substances generated by friction between a strip and a side guide provided to guide a movement of the strip toward an entrance of a winder in a hot rolling process,
wherein the apparatus comprises a reverse direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water in the reverse direction of a moving direction of the strip toward the strip moving to the entrance of the winder by the side guide, the reverse direction injection unit comprises a plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles arranged along a width direction of the strip to inject high-pressure water to an upper surface of the strip, and the plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles is arranged such that an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in a central area along the above arrangement direction is narrower than an interval of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in both edge areas.

2 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of upper reverse direction injection nozzles is arranged such that the injection nozzles located in the central area inject a larger flow rate of high-pressure water than the injection nozzles located in the both edge areas in the arrangement direction.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in the central area are provided to have a diameter larger than a diameter of the upper reverse direction injection nozzles located in the both edge areas.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
a lateral direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water between the side guide and the strip.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the lateral direction injection unit is provided to be capable of regulating a high-pressure water injection flow rate to increase a flow rate of high-pressure water to be injected in proportion to a threshold temperature at which sparks occur in the strip depending on a steel type.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the side guide comprises a first side guide provided to support one side in the width direction of the strip, and a second side guide provided to support the other side in the width direction of the strip, the lateral direction injection unit comprises a first lateral direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water between the first side guide and the one side of the strip, and a second lateral direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water between the second side guide and the other side of the strip, the first lateral direction injection unit and the second lateral direction injection unit are provided to be capable of regulating a high-pressure water injection flow rate, and the first lateral direction injection unit and the second lateral direction injection unit regulate the high-pressure water injection flow rate to increase the high-pressure water injection flow rate to a side guide having larger friction with the strip among the first side guide and the second side guide.

7 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a first sensing unit provided to detect a frictional force between the first side guide and the strip; a second sensing unit provided to detect a frictional force between the second side guide and the strip; and a controller electrically connected to the first sensing unit, the second sensing unit, the first lateral direction injection unit, and the second lateral direction injection unit, wherein the controller compares the frictional force detected through the first sensing unit and the frictional force detected through the second sensing unit, and as a result of the comparison of the frictional forces, regulates high-pressure water injection flow rates of the first lateral direction injection unit and the second lateral direction injection unit to increase the high-pressure water injection flow rate to a side guide having larger friction with the strip among the first side guide and the second side guide.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
a forward direction injection unit provided to inject high-pressure water in the moving direction of the strip from an upstream side of the side guide toward the upper surface of the strip, wherein the side guide comprises a first side guide provided to support one side in the width direction of the strip, and a second side guide provided to support the other side in the width direction of the strip, and the forward direction injection unit is capable of biasedly injecting a high-pressure water injection flow rate to any one of the first side guide and the second side guide.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein
the forward direction injection unit comprises a plurality of forward injection nozzles arranged along the width direction of the strip to inject high-pressure water to the upper surface of the strip, each of which is provided to regulate the high-pressure water injection flow rate, and the plurality of forward injection nozzles regulates the high-pressure water injection flow rate to increase the high-pressure water injection flow rate to a side guide having larger friction with the strip among the first side guide and the second side guide.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a first sensing unit provided to detect a frictional force between the first side guide and the strip; a second sensing unit provided to detect a frictional force between the second side guide and the strip; and a controller electrically connected to the first sensing unit, the second sensing unit, and the plurality of forward injection nozzles, wherein the controller compares the frictional force detected through the first sensing unit and the frictional force detected through the second sensing unit, and as a result of the comparison of the frictional forces, regulates high-pressure water injection flow rates of the plurality of forward injection nozzles to increase the high-pressure water injection flow rate to a side guide having larger friction with the strip among the first side guide and the second side guide.

Assignees

• Posco Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Kyungseok
• Hong Wankee
• Yoo Sukjin
• Yoo Hyun
• Lee Sanghui

Classifications

• B21B45/08

  hydraulically · CPC title

• B21B45/0275 Primary

  Cleaning devices · 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

• B08B3/022 Primary

  Cleaning travelling work (B08B3/042 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B21B2015/0057

  Coiling the rolled product · CPC title