The Study of Cooling Process on Runout Table by Simulation Method

This research aims to achieving the effective cooling parameter on the runout table (ROT) of strip steel in hot rolling process. The 2-dimensional transient heat conduction is developed including the external force convection and heat source due to translational motion. The material property, boundary, and initial condition are defined and bounded to model geometry. The strip velocity, cooling water temperature, and external fluid velocity are chosen for the influent parameters during cooling process at ROT. To find the optimality of cooling operating requirement, simulation study is conducted throughout this research. To reach the objective of optimal cooling consumption at ROT, temperature distribution in the strip steel during cooling governs by the form of heat transfer equation. To solve 2-dimensional transient heat conduction by numerical methods, the backward difference formula (BDF) applies to discretization of partial differentiation equation (PDE). The parallel sparse direct linear solver (PARDISO) and conjugate gradients method are comparatively applied to computation in linear algebraic equation. The simulation studies are divided into 12 case studies with three variations subjected to cooling conditions at ROT. From simulation results, the range of such three variations can be identified in relation to economic cooling system and desired quality of products.