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US 12,320,591 B2Granted
Plant for the production of metal products and method of management of said plant
AssigneeDanieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
InventorAntonio Nardella
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Abstract
A plant to produce metal products, and a corresponding management method, where the plant includes a production line which includes a plurality of operating units, each provided with respective hydraulic circuits, selected from a melting unit, a casting unit, a rolling unit and a cooling treatment apparatus, and a water supply unit having a tank for the water connected to each of the hydraulic circuits and a plurality of water feed devices configured to feed water from the tank to respective hydraulic circuits.
Claims5
A plant to produce metal products, said plant comprising:
- a production line which includes a plurality of operating units, each provided with hydraulic circuits, selected from a melting unit, a casting unit, a rolling unit and a cooling apparatus, a water supply unit equipped with a tank connected, by means of respective delivery circuits, to each of said hydraulic circuits, and a plurality of water feed devices, associated with said delivery circuits and configured to feed water from said tank to each of said hydraulic circuits, and
- a control unit configured to receive information at least on characteristics of the metal products to be produced, and on a speed of advance of said metal products along said operating units, and information correlated to actual operating intervals of one or more of said operating units to determine for at least one of said operating units, a starting instant of each operating interval and to command said water feed devices to selectively supply water to the respective hydraulic circuit of said at least one operating unit at a determinate advance time with respect to said starting instant based on actual functioning operating modes of said at least one operating unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.