A water removing apparatus for steel sheet cooling water in a hot rolling process that removes cooling water jetted to a hot rolling steel sheet when cooling the hot rolling steel sheet before and after rough rolling or before and after finish rolling of the hot rolling process,
- the water removing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of water removing nozzles that are aligned in a conveyance direction of the hot rolling steel sheet on one end or both in a width direction of a steel sheet conveyance plane and jet water-removing water to the steel sheet conveyance plane, and a plurality of water removal areas, wherein each water removal area is an area of collision of water-removing water jetted from one of the water removing nozzles in the steel sheet conveyance plane, and has a prescribed width less than a width of the steel sheet conveyance plane, and the plurality of water removing nozzles are arranged so as to cover the entire area in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane with the plurality of water removal areas,
- wherein a ratio of the distance in the conveyance direction between any two adjacent water removing nozzles to the distance in the conveyance direction between the centers of a pair of conveyor rolls adjacent in the conveyance direction is larger than 0.25 and less than 0.95,
- one or more water removing nozzles among said plurality of water removing nozzles comprise a single far water removing nozzle, a far water removing nozzle group, or a combination thereof,
- the single far water removing nozzle forms a far end water removal single area that does not include the one end but includes another end in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane,
- the far water removing nozzle group comprises one or more inner water removing nozzles and the far water removing nozzle, and one or more inner water removal single areas, which the one or more inner water removing nozzles form and which do not include either end in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane, and the far end water removal single area, which the far water removing nozzle forms, the one or more inner water removal single areas and the far end water removal single area being aligned in order from the one end to the other end while overlapping with each other in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane and aligned in order from an upstream side to a downstream side without overlapping in the conveyance direction,
- a near water removing nozzle is placed on the lateral side of the one end in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane,
- the near water removing nozzle forms a near end water removal single area, which is not included in either the far end water removal single area that the single far water removing nozzle forms or a far water removal area group that the far water removing nozzle group forms and which includes the one end in the width direction of the steel sheet conveyance plane on the upstream side in the conveyance direction of the far end water removal single area or the far water removal area group,
- a ratio of the distance in the width direction of the overlapping area of the near end water removal single area and the far end water removal single area to the width of the steel sheet conveyance plane is more than 0.0 and less than 0.2, or ratios of the distance in the width direction of the overlapping area of the near end water removal single area and the inner water removal single areas, and the distance in the width direction of the overlapping area of the near end water removal single area and the far end water removal single area to the width of the steel sheet conveyance plane are respectively more than 0.0 and less than 0.2.