Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Inclusion Removal in the Steel Continuous Casting Tundish

Document Type : Research Article

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1 yazd university

2 Mechanical Engineering/Yazd University

Abstract

During the steel continuous casting process, the tundish is the last metallurgical actuator in which there will be an opportunity for removal of impurities present in the melt. Therefore, improving of the fluid flow phenomena inside the tundish, including the type of fluid flow pattern, increasing of inclusion residence time in the tundish, decreasing of volume of stagnant fluid and increasing of fluid flow in the rotation, can improve the process of separation of the inclusion and absorbing them into slag and the preparation of clean steel. In the mathematical method, the FLUENT software is used and in the experimental method, by manufacturing of the glass tundish in 1:4 scale and molten flow physical simulation, the effect of applying the dam in the tundish, as well as the change in the height of the melt on the behavior of the flow has been investigated, and it has been determined that decreasing of the molten height in the tundish increases the separated inclusion from the molten and inclusion residence time in the tundish. Also, using the dam at the inlet nozzle with a tall dam on the sides of the tundish leads to the removal of the inclusion and improving the molten flow.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 52, Issue 7
October 2020
Pages 1943-1954

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