A continuous reheating furnace has been used to reheat steel like billets or slabs just before entering a rolling process. The steel is charged into the continuous reheating furnace resulting in reheating it up to over 1000 °C, and then discharged fr...
A continuous reheating furnace has been used to reheat steel like billets or slabs just before entering a rolling process. The steel is charged into the continuous reheating furnace resulting in reheating it up to over 1000 °C, and then discharged from the continuous furnace for the next rolling process. Generally walking beam type, pusher type, and walking hearth type reheating furnaces are widely used in the steel reheating industry. For the current study the Level 2 control system was developed and embodied into a realistic reheating furnace to operate the continuous reheating furnace effectively and to predict steel discharge temperature with a mathematical thermal model.