Modelling and Optimisation of Continuous Casting

Code

L2-7204 (C) - included in ARIS records

Head

PhD Božidar Šarler

Period

9/1/2005 - 8/31/2008

Range in 2008

0.27 FTE

Science

Engineering sciences and technologies (6)
Medical sciences (1)
Other (1)

Reseacher status

Researcher (7)
Junior expert or technical associate (1)

Education

Doctor's degree (1)
Other (7)

Sex

Woman (2)
Man (6)

Status

Employed at RO (1)
Employed at RO and RRD (1)
No data on employment in RO (6)

No. of publications

1–9 (1)
10–99 (5)
100–999 (1)
1,000–9,999 (1)

Projects / Programmes source: ARIS

source: ARIS

Modelling and Optimisation of Continuous Casting

Research activity

Code	Science	Field	Subfield
2.13.00	Engineering sciences and technologies	Process engineering

Code	Science	Field
T200	Technological sciences	Thermal engineering, applied thermodynamics
T450	Technological sciences	Metal technology, metallurgy, metal products
T130	Technological sciences	Production technology
T125	Technological sciences	Automation, robotics, control engineering

Keywords

direct chill casting, twin-roll strip casting, continuous casting, homogenisation, aluminium, steel, transport phenomena, computational modelling, simulation, optimisation, automatisation

Evaluation (rules)

source: COBISS

Evaluation of bibliographic research performance indicators according to ARIS methodology

Citations Citations for bibliographic records in COBIB.SI that are linked to records in citation databases

source: WoS

source: Scopus

source: COBISS

Researchers (8)

no.	Code	Name and surname	Research area	Role	Period	No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.	13250	Marina Jelen	Materials science and technology	Researcher	2005 - 2008	62
2.	13448	Janko Kokošar	Engineering sciences and technologies	Researcher	2008	31
3.	18788	Gojko Manojlović	Manufacturing technologies and systems	Researcher	2005 - 2008	50
4.	04101	PhD Božidar Šarler	Process engineering	Head	2005 - 2008	1,101
5.	26176	Katarina Trčko	Metabolic and hormonal disorders	Junior researcher	2007	148
6.	28913	Štefan Trčko	Materials science and technology	Junior researcher in economics	2007 - 2008	3
7.	03815	Jožef Triplat		Technical associate	2005 - 2007	66
8.	22613	Miha Založnik	Materials science and technology	Junior researcher	2005 - 2006	67

Organisations (4)

no.	Code	Research organisation	City	Registration number	No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.	0277	SIJ ACRONI, company for production of steel and steel products, Ltd	Jesenice	5688418	612
2.	0719	IMPOL Inustry of Metal Semimanufactures d.o.o.	Slovenska Bistrica	5040736	135
3.	1540	University of Nova Gorica	Nova Gorica	5920884000	14,063
4.	1610	ŠTORE STEEL podjetje za proizvodnjo jekel, d.o.o. (Slovene)	Štore	1197967	726

Abstract

The proposed project continues our long-term efforts for modernization of continuous casting in Slovenia. These efforts involve improvements of process monitoring and control, better understanding of the process, and process optimisation with the goals of reducing energy consumption, environmental impacts as well as improving product quality. The focus of this project is in development of the-state-of-the-art interdisciplinary knowledge and its industrial application towards improvement of the product quality, which is a principal requirement for process competitiveness. This project represents a continuation of a precompetitive part of the coordinated European research project in the field of materials COST-526 APOMAT where a computer system for automatic optimisation of process parameters in semicontinuous and twin-roll casting of aluminium alloys and continuous casting of steel will be upgraded. The system will include a database of material properties of steels and aluminium alloys, a computational model of the system, metallurgical cooling criteria, the optimisation problem and the solution method. The computational model of transport phenomena in the strand will be complemented by modules for simulation of laminar and turbulent velocity and multiconstituent species fields. The computer system will be used to upgrade the process monitoring and control systems that were developed and implemented in recent years based on our own expertise. Such systems are currently installed in the IMPOL aluminium casting plant, ŠTORE STEEL and SIJ-ACRONI steel casting plants in Slovenia and partner plants in Europe. The proposed project will help the plant process engineers to understand and properly set the optimum casting and heat treatment parameters of existing formats and qualities as well as efficiently design casting of the new products.