Cooling-water injection control device and cooling-water injection control method for rolling mill

A cooling-water injection control device for a rolling mill having a plurality of water injection headers, the cooling-water injection control device comprising:

• a water injection amount control circuitry configured to
• receive flow rate characteristics including a minimum flow rate, a maximum flow rate, and a preset transient flow rate between the minimum flow rate and the maximum flow rate for each water injection header of the plurality of water injection headers,
• periodically receive a surface temperature of a material to be rolled at an entry side of the rolling mill;
• periodically receive a rolling speed pattern of the rolling mill,
• periodically determine a flow rate for each of the plurality of water injection headers and control the plurality of water injection headers to make a predicted temperature of a material to be rolled on a delivery side of the rolling mill coincident with a target value based on a temperature model for a current surface temperature and a current rolling speed pattern,
• control each of the plurality of water injection headers based on a corresponding current determined flow rate,
• control a flow rate of any one of the plurality of water injection headers based on priority to establish a state where each of the plurality of water injection headers injects water at a flow rate between the minimum flow rate and the preset transient flow rate or does not inject water, based on the current corresponding determined flow rate of any one of the plurality of water injection headers being less than the preset transient flow rate, and
• control the flow rates of the plurality of water injection headers at a time to establish a state where each of the plurality of water injection headers injects water at a flow rate between the preset transient flow rate and the maximum flow rate based on the current corresponding determined flow rate of each of the plurality of water injection headers being greater than or equal to the preset transient flow rate.