On-line spray water cooling (OSWC) of electric-resistance-welded (ERW) steel pipes can replace the conventional off-line heat treatment process and become an important and critical procedure. The OSWC process improves production efficiency, decreases costs, and enhances the mechanical properties of ERW steel pipe, especially the impact properties of the weld joint. In this paper, an annular OSWC process is investigated based on an experimental simulation platform that can obtain precise real-time measurements of the temperature of the pipe, the water pressure and flux, etc. The effects of the modes of annular spray water cooling and related cooling parameters on the mechanical properties of the pipe are investigated. The temperature evolutions of the inner and outer walls of the pipe are measured during the spray water cooling process, and the uniformity of mechanical properties along the circumferential and longitudinal directions is investigated. A heat transfer coefficient model of spray water cooling is developed based on measured temperature data in conjunction with simulation using the finite element method. Industrial tests prove the validity of the heat transfer model of a steel pipe undergoing spray water cooling. The research results can provide a basis for the industrial application of the OSWC process in the production of ERW steel pipes.
Hot rolling experiments were designed to investigate the effect of rolling temperature and rolling deformation on microstructure, thickness and surface red scale of hot rolled mild steel oxide scale by spectrometer, SEM and pickling experiment. The research results show that in the same other experiment conditions, the greater the rolling deformation, the thinner the oxide scale extend; with the increase of rolling temperature, the plasticity of oxide scale is enhanced, the oxide scale can be compacted under a larger rolling reduction, which increase the adhesion of oxide scale to substrate and reduce the oxide scale falling off. The higher rolling temperature is, the greater the allowable critical deformation to inhibit red scale is, and the thicker tolerable thickness of the initial oxide scale is. In the process of hot strip rolling, improving rolling load distribution of the front frame and reducing the rolling deformation of the tail frame is helpful to control strip red scale and make oxide scale deform uniformly.
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