The control parameters which establish the liquid steel temperature inside the steel making ladle during teeming (when liquid steel flows from the ladle into the distributor) have been analysed, by means of numerical and experimental procedures. Initially the idealized models are solved with the use of finite element techniques obtaining as main results: the liquid steel temperature profile, the refractory wall temperature profile, and the velocity profile of the melt. The results obtained from the computational simulation are then compared with actual steel plant results measured by the authors. It is possible in this way to obtain the critical points where major temperature losses occur, helping to obtain preventive measures to lessen overheating and premature heating which result in a series of problems during continuous casting.
Ladle; numerical simulation; ANSYS; temperature control; liquid steel measurements
