A Compensation Model of Continuous Temperature Measurement for Molten Steel in Tundish

Abstract

A compensation model has been proposed to reduce errors caused by the immersion depth of the sensor and the time lag of continuous temperature measurement for molten steel in tundish, which is based on the limited data fitting method and data fusion technology. According to the heat transfer analysis of sensor, the thermal model has been bulit to determine the temperature variation function. The parameters of the compensation model are recognized by generic algorithm, which combines the determine function, the molten steel mass in the ladle and pouring time. The processing of error compensation is divided into three stages: tracking, holding and compensation. When the processing is stable, the measured temperature error is small, and the measured temperature is regarded as accurate value and tracked. For the end of pouring stage of the ladle, the temperature error is caused by the immersion depth of the sensor, and the measured temperature before sharp decreasing is considered as real temperature and held. For the temperature increasing stage after ladle changed, the measured temperature is compensated online. The application results show that the error between the compensation temperatures and the actual ones have been decreased to ± 2 °C, and the time lag could be shortened from 3 – 5 min to 40 s by applying this model.