1. Hot rolling process of aluminum plate
The hot rolling process is gradually evolved from the method of semi-continuous casting, headcounting, milling, and then completing the processing of the product through multiple hot rolling on a single stand. Today’s hot rolling mills are divided into single stand single coil, single stand double coil and multi stand, and the thickness of the billet is rolled from 600 ~ 350mm to 8 ~ 2mm. The product range is: 1XXX, 3XXX, 5XXX, 7XXX, 8XXX series aluminum and aluminum alloy plates. Hot rolled products have a wide range, good quality and large output. The aluminum sheet and strip billets produced by hot rolling account for more than 65% of the total production worldwide. Jedoch, the investment in the hot rolling production line is large, and the investment in a production line is 150-20 billion yuan, which limits the development of the hot rolling process to a certain extent.
2. Aluminum sheet casting and rolling process
Hunter, Douglas two companies are the first to use the lower-injection twin-roll caster for the production of aluminum slabs, creating the casting and rolling process. Because it is very inconvenient to install and adjust the feed nozzle of the down-casting casting mill, in 1962, Hunter proposed a tilting casting mill with the center line of the casting roll and the horizontal line at an angle of 15°, and then the French Scal company developed a The 3C method (Continuous Caster Between Cylinders) is a two-roll horizontal casting mill, which further improves the casting and rolling process.
The casting and rolling process is a method of directly introducing molten metal into the gap between two internal water-cooled rotating rolls, and after crystallization, solidification and deformation, the strip is drawn from the other side of the rolls. It integrates a series of complex production processes such as casting and rolling, which greatly simplifies the hot rolling production process and opens up a new way for the production of aluminum processing strips. The casting and rolling mill can directly produce Aluminiumspulen mit einer Dicke von 5 to 12 mm from molten aluminum, which greatly reduces the production cost of aluminum sheets. Jedoch, due to the limitation of the length of the cooling area and the limited cooling strength of the casting and rolling mill, the range of materials produced by the casting and rolling process is narrow, the amount of thermal deformation is small, the deep drawability is not good, the strip is easily broken during foil rolling, and the output is low. These problems The development of casting and rolling technology is limited.
3. Aluminiumblech continuous casting and rolling process
The method of introducing molten metal into a pair of water-cooled circulating steel belts (including crawler belts), directly casting them into aluminum sheets with a thickness of 20 to 30 mm, and then rolling them into aluminum coils by 1 to 3 racks at the rear is called continuous casting. Casting and rolling process. The range of materials produced by it is close to that of hot rolling, and the product performance is better than that of cast-rolled sheet, but worse than that of hot-rolled sheet. The more successful double-belt continuous casting and rolling process was proposed by the Hazelett Company in the United States in 1959, which led to the continuous emergence of different forms of double-belt continuous casting machines in other countries. The subcutaneous inclusions on the upper surface of the billet aggregate and affect the product quality, which greatly limits the development of the continuous casting process.
In recent years, with the rising energy prices and the rising voice of environmental protection, the traditional aluminum processing technology has made new progress. Hot rolling is developing towards the direction of large slab (above 20T), large plate width (above 2000mm), high speed (above 200m/min), high degree of automation and multi-stand continuous rolling. Casting and rolling are developing in the direction of high speed (above 10m/min) and ultra-thin (below 3mm). Continuous casting and rolling technology has invested a lot of research work abroad in recent years to solve the problem of subcutaneous inclusion aggregation on the upper surface of the strip, so that the technology has been gradually applied.
