Modernization of Continuous Casters for Casting Rounds at the Volga Pipe Plant

• Published in: Metallurgist (New York) Vol. 49; no. 9-10; pp. 362 - 365
• Main Authors: Lyal'kov, A G, Markovich, V I, Masnyi, V V, Neklyudov, I V, Gankin, V B, Smolyakov, A S, Shapiro, A V, Shifrin, I N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Nature B.V 01.09.2005
• Subjects: Casters; Casting machines; Continuous casting; Electric furnace steel making; Iron and steel making; Iron and steel plants; Modernization; Pipe; Pipes; Power plants; Steel industry
• ISSN: 0026-0894; 1573-8892
• DOI: 10.1007/s11015-006-0007-8

The modern electric steelmaking equipment and technology in use at the Volga Pipe Plant allows that facility to make tubular semifinished products composed of a wide range of steels. Due to an increase in the volume of production and the number of orders being received for 156-mm-diam. semifinished products, the plant found it necessary to increase the productivity of the continuous caster in the casting of small-diameter products. The plant worked with VNIIMETMASh to modernize its existing continuous section caster. The technical and organizational changes that were made in order to cast 156-mm-diam. semifinished products have elevated the performance of caster No. 2 to world-class level. The modernization effort was completed well in advance of the scheduled date.