Continuous casting mold arrangement
AssigneeVoest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH
InventorKlaus Schilcher
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Abstract
There is disclosed a continuous casting mold including side walls defining a mold cavity and a cooling shell surrounding the side walls. A coolant cavity is formed between the side walls and the cooling shell for a coolant to pass therethrough. A level measuring means constituted by a radiation source disposed in the upper region of the continuous casting mold lateral of the mold cavity and by a beam detector also arranged in the upper region of the continuous casting mold and lateral of the mold cavity serves to determine the filling level of the mold. In order to avoid the absorption of the radiation from the radiation source by the coolant, at least one coolant displacer is arranged in the region of the beam path passing the coolant cavity.
Claims12
In a continuous casting mold arrangement, such as a continuous steel casting mold arrangement, of the type including a continuous casting mold, mold side wall means defining a mold cavity, a cooling shell surrounding said mold side wall means and delimiting a coolant cavity together with said mold side wall means for a coolant to pass therethrough, and a level measuring means, said level measuring means being constituted by a radiation source disposed in the upper region of said continuous casting mold lateral of said mold cavity and adapted to emit beams following a beam path and by a beam detector also arranged in the upper region of said continuous casting mold and lateral of said mold cavity, the improvement comprising at least one coolant displacer means provided in said coolant cavity in a region passed by said beam path.
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