MODEL PLANT OF CONTINUOUS STEEL CASTING Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B22D11/10 G01N21/85 

FIELD: technological processes.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to hydrodynamics of liquids flow in a crystalliser. The plant comprises a transparent crystalliser 7 with wide and narrow faces, a water flow reflector 10 in the form of comb cells 11, a casting reservoir 1 with a stop 2 and a casting sleeve 3 submerged in it 3 with output holes 4 for water supply into a crystalliser 7, a nozzle 12 with a header 13 for water discharge, two video cameras 15, 16 connected to a computer. The crystalliser 7 is made at the scale of (1/4÷1/3) relative to dimensions of the industrial crystalliser. The faces of the crystalliser 7 are made as narrowing to the bottom part at the angle α= 1÷1.5° to the vertical line. Video cameras 15, 16 are arranged with the possibility to fix flows of fluids that wash wide and narrow faces of the crystalliser 7. In the walls of the casting sleeve 3 there is a groove with a porous insert with permeable partitions filled with a dyeing fluid.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of fluid hydrodynamics modelling in the crystalliser.

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