Improving the energy efficiency and process scrap in grooved hot rolling of SAE 52100 steel billets

Numerical Simulation as a Tool for the Study, Development, and Optimization of Rolling Processes: A Review

“…The remaining eleven articles included in Table 1 are focused on the study of other rolling processes. Thus, two articles are concerned with the study of skew rolling [27,47], one about shape rolling [36], and one focused on the study of cross-wedge rolling [22]. Other papers are related to the study of other processes such as hot shear rolling [49], cold corrugated rolling bonding [32], cold hollow embossing rolling [46], asymmetrical rolling [43], as well as hybrid processes such as combined hot rolling-extrusion [29] and cold equal-channel angular rolling [37,38].…”

“…Most recently, Singh and Singh [36] studied the effect of rolling process parameters on the response parameters during hot rolling of SAE 52100 steel bars. Specifically, the process parameters studied were rolling speed, billet temperature, reduction ratio, billet size, and roll diameter.…”

“…The programs used are varied, finding studies in which Marc, Abaqus, Simufact, Forge NxT, Metafor, and Deform have been used. In terms of mesh, the use of hexahedral elements predominates, and the use of tetrahedrons has been recorded only in [36]. The meshes used have between 4560 and 270,673 elements, and their size ranges between 3.8 and 8 mm.…”

Enhancing the efficiency of a gas-fueled reheating furnace of the steelmaking industry: assessment and improvement

“…The process of lamination involves shaping billets generated from continuous casting. The mechanical shaping transpires as the billets pass through a pair of grooved rolls in a rolling mill (Singh and Singh, 2023). After being cast and stored in open-air warehouses, billets gradually lose heat through natural cooling and necessitate reheating in a furnace (Wang et al ., 2017).…”

“…For this study, only hot rolling mills are of interest. Reheating furnaces are crucial components in hot rolling mill plants, aiming at heating steel billets or slabs to the optimal temperature, up to 1200–1210 °C, for the hot rolling process (Singh and Singh, 2023). By maintaining precise and uniform temperatures, reheating furnaces enable the steel reshaping process, playing a vital role in ensuring the quality and consistency of the final steel products (Huang et al ., 2016).…”