Mold breakout prediction system

Overview: The BPS-K600 continuous casting mould breakout prediction system is developed by Wuhan CenterRise M&C Measuring Co., Ltd. It adopts artificial neural network and combines with traditional artificial intelligence and information processing technology to overcome the defects of traditional logic-based prediction models. It has the functions of self-adaptation, self-organization and real-time learning. The breakout prediction system has an optimized industrial network structure. According to the distribution and change rules of the temperature field of the mold, it can track and respond to the breakout process in real time. It can learn and judge by itself, and provide early warning information for on-site operations. It can effectively prevent the occurrence of breakout accidents, greatly reducing the cost and improving the safety factor of continuous casting. The system is suitable for all kinds of continuous casting machines such as square billet, round billet, rectangular billet and slab. Block Diagram of Breakout Prediction System The composition of the system Thermocouple: according to the on-site conditions of the mold, water tank, bolts and mold frame to desgin Front-end acquisition system: Multi-module acquisition chain, industrial Ethernet interface, high-speed embedded processing module Working platform: Real-time display of mold temperature field status, online analysis and prediction of mold breakout Server: Data exchange and storage management, reporting and printing system, with data analysis and self-learning functions The Main technical parameters Data sampling: the sampling frequency of K-type/T-type thermocouple can up to 10HZ Accuracy of temperature measurement: ±0.25℃ Support communication protocol: Industrial Ethernet (TCP/IP)，PROFIBUS-DP，CANopen Executive standard: DE0411 Standard Class III/1EC584/IEC1515 Transmission speed: 100M/bps The composition of the software Online monitoring software for breakout prediction Offline query software for breakout prediction Data recovery and self-learning software packages Data acquisition and monitoring software The software package of mold thermal status display The functions of the system Real-time data acquisition, data analysis and judgment Automatic selection of steel grade’s alarm parameters Real-time dynamic picture monitoring Prediction alarm and information display of breakout signs Automatic deceleration after alarm Historical data storage and historical trend graph display Automatic report generation and printing Alarm prediction and pattern recognition of unknown steel grades by neural network Dynamic real-time temperature profile prediction Mould heat flow field display FIG 1：Typical process of mold breakout prediction The features of the system 1. Reasonable design of temperature measurement point and professional protection front-end acquisition system, and complete installation and calibration tool components. 2. The system has strong adaptability and can meet the transformation of various structural continuous casting machines. 3. High-speed data communication, using industrial network to form an independent local area network for each workstation and server. It can realize high-speed data transmission of alarm files, alarm parameters, and other databases. 4. The combination of artificial neural network and intelligent forecasting model improves the alarm accuracy of breakout forecasting. 5. Historical data storage and historical trend graph display, historical reports, historical alarm legend printing, real-time alarm data printing. 6. Provide a local area network interface, which can realize the storage and forwarding of alarm files, and the input and output of offline alarm data. 7. Remote Web browsing can be achieved according to customer needs. 8. Can be seamlessly connected with MES-C220 mould expert system.

Overview LGK-JS03 Mould Breakout Prediction System Thermocouple Calibrator is a patented product of Wuhan CenterRise M&C Engineering Co., Ltd. It is a special equipment specially developed for off-line detection of mold breakout prediction thermocouples. This calibrator has the advantages of high test accuracy, reliable data, light weight, portable and easy to use. It can fully meet the needs of on-site installation testing and use process verification. It is an essential tool for on-site online testing. The detection principle In the process and normal production of mold thermocouple offline installation in mold breakout prediction system, LGK-JS03 mould breakout prediction system thermocouple calibrator is an automatic special instrument for thermocouple detection. The system simultaneously measures the wide surface inner arc, wide surface outer arc and narrow surface of the mold through a special embedded signal processing system. The 128 thermocouple sensors can be scanned on one side at most, and the current thermocouple status is displayed in real time on the LCD panel of the calibrator. The function of the system 1. Using digital dynamic measurement technology, it can measure up to 8x16 thermocouple arrays’ temperature at the same time 2. Realize full digital measurement 3. The system realizes automatic temperature compensation and automatic recording 4. Multiple modes of display output, providing a rich and complete human-machine interface 5. Provide single-point, cycle, multi-point display, and provide temperature rise detection and galvanic couple state judgment 6. On-line identification and diagnosis function, providing broken couple, short circuit and alarm functions 7. Can adapt to all breakout forecasting systems on the market 8. Support temperature field and temperature array detection at the same time 9. With print and storage function The features of the system 1. Humanized human-computer interface 2. Multiple display modes 3. Convenient system settings 4. With historical data storage and printing functions 5. The system connection has a wide range of adaptability and supports the connection interface of all mold breakout prediction and detection systems in the market. 6. Specially designed heating system 7. Portable (built-in rechargeable battery) The performance index The measuring range The optional parameters: -100℃-0℃; -100℃-100℃; -100℃-200℃; 0℃-100℃; 0℃-200℃; 0℃-500℃; 0℃-800℃; 0°C-1000°C; 100°C-200°C; 100°C-500°C; 200°C-1000°C; 500℃-1000℃, 12 parameters in total. The default parameter is the measurement range of 0℃-200℃. Adaptable sensor: J-type, K-type, T-type thermocouple The detection accuracy t99.9℃ (±0.25% of reading) t999℃ (±0.2% of reading) The detection range Type J: -100℃-1000℃ Type K: -100℃-1000℃ Type T: -100℃-400℃ Working temperature: -10℃~60℃ Battery level indicator: support Instrument size: 840x160x320cm Instrument weight: 3700g

Overview The automatic control for the molten steel level of the mold is one of the key technologies of continuous casting production. It is very important to reduce the labor intensity of workers, improve production efficiency, improve the quality and output of casting billet, reduce overflow and breakout of steel and improve the management level of steelmaking and continuous casting. The molten steel is poured into the mold. In order to prevent overflow, the molten steel level must be kept stable. Otherwise, during the casting process, if the level will fluctuate too much, and slag will be involved, forming surface slag inclusion on the surface of the casting billet, affecting the quality of the billet. The test points out that the relationship between the level fluctuation and the depth of casting billet surface slag inclusion is as follows: The experience has shown that surface slag inclusions can be eliminated when the level fluctuation is within ±10mm. At the same time, if the level fluctuation is more than 10mm, the rate of longitudinal cracks on the casting billet surface is 30%. It means that the level fluctuation directly affects the surface quality of the casting billet. The principle of the system The eddy current type molten steel level gauge is the key to the system. The system operates reliably and has excellent performance: high temperature resistance, strong anti-interference ability, fast dynamic response (lag time 0.10s), high detection accuracy (±05mm), and large measurement range (0-150mm). The selected electromagnetic field frequency ensures that the level detection probe only detects the level change of the mold and does not detect the mold flux or steel slag layer. The system has the advantages of simple operation and no radiation protection problems. The system is insensitive to argon blowing, and its sensors can be mounted on the tundish car or on the platform. The sensor is cooled by compressed air during use. The principle is shown in the figure A high-frequency exciting winding is installed above the molten steel surface of the mold. The high-frequency magnetic field generated by the high-frequency exciting winding induces eddy currents on the molten steel surface to form a magnetic field. The magnetic field generated by the induced eddy current is in the opposite direction to the magnetic field generated by the high-frequency exciting winding, which changes the impedance of the high-frequency exciting winding. Under the condition that the winding material and structure, steel grade, temperature remain unchanged, the coil impedance change only has a single-value function relationship with the height of the molten steel level. As long as the impedance change of the high-frequency winding is detected, the change of the molten steel level in the mold can be converted. The components of the system Continuous casting mold level automatic control system is composed of eddy current tyoe molten steel level gauge, controller and digital actuator for adjusting the opening of tundish stopper. The detection end of the mold level automatic control system is ① eddy current displacement sensor, which uses the eddy current mutual inductance effect between the energized coil and the metal conductor to detect the distance. The effective signal of the eddy current sensor is amplified and linearized by the circuit of ② mold level gauge, which converts the 0-150mm change in the molten steel level of the mold into a standard signal of 4-20mA.DC, and then transmits it to the ③ control computer to complete data processing and system control functions. We can also control the actuator manually and automatically through the ④on-site operation display control panel, and the opening of the stopper is controlled by the ⑤ actuator to realize the automatic control of the molten steel level. 1 Eddy current sensor; 2 mold level gauge; 3 control computer; 4 On-site operation display control panel; 5 digital actuator; The control principle of the system The system can be set to four control modes: automatic, semi-automatic, manual and motor clutch. The automatic mode is the closed-loop control system of the molten steel level, and control the opening of the stopper by the digital actuator; the semi-automatic mode uses opening degree setter and digital actuator to set the opening of the stopper manually; the manual mode is to open and close the button directly to control the opening of the stopper; the motor clutch mode is quickly changed from any of the above control methods to manual stopper operation. The functions of the system also include: display and record of molten steel level, nozzle opening and casting speed; setting of molten steel level and nozzle opening; alarm of molten steel level at limit value etc. In addition to taking the detection of molten steel level as the main feedback signal of the control system, the control system also considers various interference factors that have an impact on the level control. These interference factors include: 1. The influence of the change of the flow characteristics on the control system after the melt loss of the stopper 2. The influence of the weight change of molten steel in the tundish on the control system 3. The influence of the change of the casting speed of the continuous casting machine on the control system 4. The influence of the mold width change (the mold width is adjustable) on the control system 5. The influence of the vibration frequency and amplitude of the mold on the molten steel level gauge The function and software implementation In order to overcome these disturbances, the mold level control strategy adopts PID control. And on the basis of PID control, self-adaptive correction and feedforward control are introduced to form an advanced control system. The level control is the main loop, and there is a proportional gain of the main loop controller. According to the self-adaptive correction of the mold width change and feedforward compensation of casting speed, so as to further reduce and eliminate liquid level fluctuations caused by mold width adjustment and casting speed changes. In order to reduce the frequent action of the stopper, the system adopts the intergarting time change of the controller, and automatically selects a longer intergarting time when the molten steel level fluctuates lightly. And the system will choose a shorter intergrating time when molten steel level fluctuates greatly. Thereby, the fluctuation of the controlled object caused by the frequent action of the stopper rod is suppressed. In the signal processing of molten steel level gauge, an appropriate filtering link is added and the vibration frequency synchronous filter is used for filtering processing, which can overcome the interference of mold vibration frequency and amplitude variation.

Overview Mold is the casting billet forming equipment in continuous steel casting, and it is also the core equipment and key technology of continuous casting machine. Its function is to forcibly cool the high-temperature molten steel continuously injected into its inner cavity through the water-cooled copper plate to export its heat and to gradually solidify it into a casting billet with the required cross-sectional shape and billet shell thickness. And the casting billet, which is still in liquid state, is continuously pulled out from the lower nozzle of the mold to create conditions for casting billet to be completely solidified in the subsequent secondary cooling area. The main function of the mould oscillation device is to make the mould perform mechanical movement according to the given characteristics of amplitude, frequency and waveform deflection. The purpose is to facilitate demoulding and prevent the occurrence of sticking and breakout accidents due to the bonding of the casting billet with the copper wall of the mold during the solidification process. MOC-K100 mould oscillation online monitoring system can three-dimensionally detect the positive and negative frequencies and waveform characteristics of the mould oscillation. The online changing data is provided in real time, which provides convenient and effective detection methods for on-site inspection personnel. The meaning of the system 1. When the continuous casting machine is not working properly, the billet quality problems (such as unstable oscillation marks, edge cracks, etc.) occur. According to the monitoring results of the system, we can combine with the actual on- site situation to analyze the cause of the failure, and efficiently evaluate and solve the problem of the oscillation table to improve product quality. 2. During the normal operation of the equipment, with the fatigue and wear of the mechanical structure of the mold, the expected oscillation parameters of the mold and the actual oscillation parameters will have a oscillation difference with time change, resulting in the internal process parameters’ changing of the continuous casting machine. Timely and accurate monitoring of changes in these parameters is helpful to schedule maintenance. 3. Transfer equipment maintenance from regular maintenance to state maintenance, do not repair when there is no problem, and arrange maintenance according to production needs when abnormal signs appear. Prevent over-repair and under-repair. 4. According to the monitoring results of the equipment, the on-site working parameters are adjusted in time to avoid adopting inaccurate or large-error oscillation to work and prevent the "breakout" accident. 5. We can timely find out that the oscillation is not stable or out of control in a small range, so as to avoid the formation of unevenness and unstable oscillation marks on the surface of the slab during the solidification of molten steel into the slab, and improve the surface quality of the product. 6. Adjust the working parameters reasonably according to the monitoring results, avoiding the use of excessive safety factor, making the entire assembly line play a normal working efficiency, increasing the output of billets, and create favorable conditions for increasing the casting speed. The functions of the system (1) Overview of monitoring parameters: Provides an overview of real-time monitoring parameters in the full screen, displaying all real-time data including oscillation parameters and process parameters. (2) Time domain waveform: This function mainly displays the oscillation waveforms of multiple measuring points and one channel standard waveform in real time, and simultaneously displays the three elements of oscillation of each measuring point in real time. (3) Waveform superposition: The difference between this function and the time domain waveform is that the waveforms of multiple measuring points are superimposed on a graph with lines of different colors on the same scale, and the oscillation difference of each channel can be calculated and displayed intuitively. (4) FFT: This functional module completes the calculation and display of the oscillation spectrum in real time. It is used to evaluate the waveform distortion of the entire oscillation table and to determine whether there is a problem with the installation of the oscillation device. (5) Bar graph: The oscillation of each measuring point is indicated by a bar graph of peak value and sensor gap voltage, which is more intuitive. (6) Trend: After starting this module, the operator can search the historical records in the database, analyze the changing trend of each parameter, and use it to analyze the rationality of the steel quality and processing parameter settings for different steels under the oscillation conditions. The parameters of the system 1. Number of measurement channels: According to the mold design, up to 16 sensors can be arranged 2. Sensor: three-dimensional oscillation sensing (X, Y, Z three axes) 3. Sensitivity: 1000mV/g 4. Frequency range: 0.04~10HZ 5. Frequency accuracy: ±0.01 Hz 6. Amplitude accuracy: 0.005mm 7. Transmission mode: wired digital transmission, wireless transmission 8. Host: 3U standard rack, handheld device 9. Sensor power supply: 24V.DC 10. Host power supply: 220V.AC/50Hz Mold oscillation curve The structure of the system The main components of the continuous casting mould online oscillation detection system are: 1. Three-dimensional oscillation measurement sensor 2. Handheld oscillation sensor calibrator 3. Dedicated signal connection cable 4. Preamplifier 5. Operation processing unit 6. Graphic display terminal 7. Industrial Ethernet (TCP/IP) or PROFIBUS-DP communication components 8. Control cabinet

Overview: LGK-S107 analog heat source instrument (heating tool) is independently developed and designed by Wuhan CenterRise M&C CO., Ltd. This instrument is a heating and testing equipment used to test the performance of the thermocouples installed in the mold in continuous casting machine. After the installation of the mold breakout prediction thermocouples completed, the analog heat source instrument is used to test these thermocouples before they go online. After the thermocouple is connected to the mold thermocouple detector, the current temperature of each thermocouple point will be displayed. By using our heating device to heat the copper plate point of each thermocouple at a fixed point, the thermocouple will have a synchronous temperature rise and then we can observe the temperature rise curve of the same column of temperature points to see whether the temperature measurement consistency of the column of thermocouples is consistent, so as to judge the overall status of thermocouples installed in the mold. If an abnormal point occurs, it needs to be repaired and replaced, so as to ensure the stable operation of the mold breakout prediction system. The working principle: The heating tool generates high heat by 220v alternating current and the electric heating element. The heat is transmitted to the copper plate of the mold through the copper head to simulate the heat source of molten steel, so that the thermocouples of the mold can sense the temperature change to achieve the purpose of calibrating the temperature measurement system. The composition: Walking trolley mechanism Preloader Pure copper heating contacts PID thermostat High power heating tube high power driver The parameters: Power supply: AC220V 50Hz Total power: 2200W Single point power: 300W Temperature control accuracy: 1°C Temperature control range: 0°C-500°C Common temperature range: 25°C-300°C Heating points: 3 (points can be customized) Heating method: heating tube heating Heating contact material: copper