An Automated Control System for the Continuous Casting of Blooms

Author

Zhang, Xiaojie ; Ji, Zhenping

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Shenyang Ligong Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

264

Abstract

Aiming to improve the control system performance, the product quality and productivity for a bloom caster, the modified control system was designed and implemented in an Specialty Steel plant. Programmable logic controller (PLC) based Level I automation control system was developed to control level, frequency, flow rate, speed, pressure, etc. in the continuous casting process. Level II supervisory control system was developed which integrated with Level I system to supply more information for operator. The application results show that the control system works well.

Keywords

blooming mills; casting; factory automation; industrial plants; programmable controllers; quality control; Level I automation control system; automated control system; bloom caster productivity; blooms continuous casting; control system performance improvement; modified control system; product quality; programmable logic controller; steel plant; supervisory control system; Bloom caster; PLC control system; Supervisory control; continuous casting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICINIS), 2010 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8548-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4249-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINIS.2010.18

Filename

5693729