The Application of Billet Tracking System to Step Heating Furnace
Taking as an example the material tracking process in walking beam heating furnaces respectively for the steel rod rolling line and the high-speed steel wire rolling line of Hebei Tangyin Iron Steel Co.,Ltd.,the paper discusses the idea and the working process of the material tracking system,focuses on the analysis of the tracking method and the factors affecting tracking accuracy: charging and positioning,step adjustment,steel judgment,position tracking and furnace number tracking and finally argues that accuracy is the key to material tracking,the premise of accurate tracking is good control of furnace temperature and guarantee of walking beam's accurate operation.
This report summarises the research completed during the first phase of the FireBeaters project (2006-2007). It includes an overview of the Met Office Fire Severity Index, a study of fire behaviour on heather moorlands, testing of existing fire behaviour models and fire danger prediction systems and an analysis of the timing of wildfires in Scotland. ::: ::: Some of the fire behaviour work has since been published in a number of peer reviewed journal articles. The report itself was peer reviewed by Dr. Wendy Anderson of the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales.