Study on the Wiping Gas Jet in Continuous Galvanizing Line

作     者：Yong-Hun Kweon Heuy-Dong Kim 

作者机构：POSCO Technical Research Laboratories 699 Gumho-dong GwangyangJeonnam 545-090 Korea School of Mechanical Engineering Andong National UniversityAndong 760-749 Korea 

出 版 物：《Journal of Thermal Science》 (热科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第20卷第3期

页      面：242-247页

核心收录：

学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

主　　题：气体喷射 镀锌生产线 Stokes方程 喷嘴压力 涂层厚度 几何形状 计算结果 连续热镀锌 

摘      要：In the continuous hot-dip galvanizing process, the gas-jet wiping is used to control the coating thickness of moving steel strip. The high speed gas-jet discharged from the nozzle slot impinges on the strip, and at this moment, wipes the liquid coating layer dragged by a moving strip. The coating thickness is generally influenced on the flow characteristics of wiping gas-jet such as the impinging pressure distribution, pressure gradient and shear stress distribution on the surface of strip. The flow characteristics of wiping gas-jet mentioned above depends upon considerably both the process operating conditions such as the nozzle pressure, nozzle-to-strip distance and line speed, and the geometry of gas-jet wiping apparatus such as the height of nozzle slot. In the present study, the effect of the geometry of nozzle on the coating thickness is investigated with the help of a computational fluid dynamics method. The height of nozzle slot is varied in the range of 0.6mm to 1.7mm. A finite volume method (FVM) is employed to solve two-dimensional, steady, compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Based upon the results obtained, the effect of the height of nozzle slot in the gas-jet wiping process is discussed in detail. The computational results show that for a given standoff distance between the nozzle to the strip, the effective height of nozzle slot exists in achieving thinner coating thickness.