Continuous casting process

Synthetic Marble. Synthetic marble-like resin products are prepared by casting or molding a highly filled monomer mixture or monomer—polymer symp. When only one smooth surface is required, a continuous casting process using only one endless stainless steel belt can be used (52,53). Typically on the order of 60 wt % inorganic filler is used. The inorganic fillers, such as aluminum hydroxide, calcium carbonate, etc, are selected on the basis of cost, and such properties as the translucence, chemical and water resistance, and ease of subsequent fabrication (54,55). 

Tape can be cast on a stainless steel table or belt, glass plate, or a Mylar, Teflon, or ceUulose acetate film carrier. The tape should adhere to the carrier sufficiently to prevent curling, but should be easily removable. In a continuous casting process, the tape is dried by air flowing 1—2 m/min counter to the casting direction. A typical dry green tape contains approximately 35 vol % organics, 50% ceramic powder, and 15% porosity. 

The new continuous casting processes, in contrast to ingot cast products, provide tin mill products which are exceptionally clean and formable. The deoxidizing processes required for continuous casting involve either aluminum or silicon killing, which adds aluminum or silicon to the steel. Experience with type D steels indicates that the added aluminum will not cause a corrosion problem. Laubscher and Weyandt (18) have shown that the silicon found in silicon killed, continuous cast, heavily coated ETP will not adversely affect the corrosion performance of plain cans packed with mildly acid food products in which tin usually protects steel. The data on enameled cans is not definitive. Additional published data are required to determine whether or not silicon actually reduces the performance of enameled cans made from enameled, heavily coated, silicon killed, continuous cast ETP. 

The basic steel types arc undergoing gradual modifications to adapt the steels to the continuous casting process. This has led to changes in the minor constituents of steel such as boron, nitrogen, titanium, and other alloying elements. 

In the continuous casting process viscous syrup is cured between two highly polished moving stainless steel belts. Distance between the belts determines the thickness of the sheets. Width is controlled by inserting flexible gaskets between the belts and is limited only by the width of the belts. Continuous casting is less versatile than cell casting and is limited to relatively thin (up to about 0.375 in.) sheets. 

POSTER TITLE Inclusion Behavior of LCAK Steel in Tundish during Continuous Casting Process... 

Zhou, F., Gupta, S. K. and Ray, A. K. (2000). Multi-objective optimization of the continuous casting process for poly (methyl methacrylate) using adapted genetic algorithm, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 78, pp. 1439-1458. 

There are many industrial processes, frequently operated at high temperature, where the quality of a solid product is crucially dependent on the cooling and solidiflcation from a molten state. The most familiar examples are the continuous casting process for steels and the float-glass process. However, tha-e are more recent developments, such as the production of near-perfect crystals of semiconducting materials, where the degree of perfection of the crystal has a profound effect on the ultimate performance of electronic devices constructed from them. 

PRODUCTION OF Fe-BASED ALLOYS BY METALLOTHERMIC REDUCTION OF MILL SCALES FROM CONTINUOUS CASTING PROCESSES... 

Zhe W, Mukai K, Matsuoka K (1997) Water model experiment for the behaviors of bubbles and liquid flow on the inside of the nozzle and mold of continuous casting process. CAMP ISIJ 10 68-71... 

Details of the actual continuous casting processes and model experiments are given in Table 8.1. Also, included are the following three dimensionless parameters for single-phase liquid flow Re, Fr, We) and one dimensionless parameter for Uquid-gas two-phase flow (ry) ... 

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