Flat steel product with high reflectivity, flat steel product and mirror element for solar concentrators

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9770744-B2
Application number	US-201314431613-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2013
Priority date	Sep 28, 2012
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 μm includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 μm. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A flat steel product with high reflectivity, which in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surfaces has
an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 μm with a preferred direction aligned parallel to the direction of rolling,
a gloss determined according to DIN 67530
of greater than 1,200 gloss units and
a directed reflection of greater than 60%.

2. The flat steel product according to claim 1 , wherein on at least one surface it has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.02 μm with a preferred direction aligned parallel to the direction of rolling.

3. The flat steel product according to claim 1 , wherein on at least one surface it has a surface hardness of less than 4 GPa.

4. The flat steel product according to claim 1 , produced using a method comprising:
a) providing a starting flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 μm;
b) cold rolling the starting flat steel product in a plurality of rolling passes,
wherein an overall forming rate achieved through the cold rolling is 75-90%,
the forming rate drops from rolling pass to rolling pass,
a rolling pressure in a first rolling pass is 200-800 MPa and a rolling pressure in a final rolling pass is 1,000-4,000 MPa,
the cold rolling takes place with an addition of rolling oil, a viscosity of which is 5-10 mm 2 /s at 40° C.,
a rolling speed during the cold rolling is greater than 200 m/min, and
the cold rolling, at least in the final rolling pass, takes place with a work roll having a circumferential contact surface that has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.01 μm to obtain a cold-rolled flat steel product;
c) annealing the obtained cold-rolled flat steel product under a protective gas atmosphere with a hydrogen content of more than 50 vol. % to obtain an annealed flat steel product; and
d) dry re-rolling the annealed flat steel product with a degree of re-rolling of 0.5-2% to obtain the flat steel product.

5. The flat steel product according to claim 1 , wherein it is made from a stainless steel with a Cr content of at least 10.5 wt. %.

6. A mirror element for solar concentrators comprising a flat steel product according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe Ag
• Outokumpu Nirosta Gmbh

Inventors

• Glass Roman
• Karsten Utz
• Kazmierski Jörg
• Kolbe Nina
• Krautschick Hans-Joachim
• Lange Klaus Manfred
• Puls Stefan Peter
• Schauer-Paβ Janine
• Schuhmacher Bernd
• Wiemer Dirk
• Wörster Frank

Classifications

• B21B2267/10

  Roughness of roll surface · CPC title

• C21D8/0247

  characterised by the heat treatment · CPC title

• C21D9/46

  for sheet metals · CPC title

• Y10T428/12979

  Containing more than 10% nonferrous elements [e.g., high alloy, stainless] · CPC title

• B21B2001/221

  by cold-rolling · CPC title