“NS blade” / Advanced Air Knife for Hot

Dip Continuous Galvanizing Line

NS means Nippon steel & Sumikin engineering.
Hatsuki KAKUNO
Makoto KATSUBE
Muneshige OGAWA
NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO.,
LTD., JAPAN

www.metec-estad2015.com
 1. Difficulty of High Speed CGL Operation
■ Generation of edge splash and top dross loss in High Speed Operation

↑Strip ■Generation of edge splash

Air knife
leads to the loss of zinc consumption.
① Top dross loss

②Difficulty in thin coating

Zinc pot
Strip
③Edge over coat
As Line Speed increases,
Coating target
zinc-takeout pulled by strip increases.
Over Coat

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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1. Difficulty of High Speed CGL Operation
■ Generation of edge splash in High Speed Operation

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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 1. Difficulty of High Speed CGL Operation
■ Ordinary nozzle Jet collision issue

Jet collision
Wiping width(> Strip width)

Strip
Wiping gas flow

Nozzle

Impinging jet ・Splash

・edge
over
coating

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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 1. Difficulty of High Speed CGL Operation
■ Baffle plate issue
Wiping width(> Strip width)

Strip
Wiping gas flow

Nozzle

Edge baffle Ineffective

plate condition

Less than 5mm

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2. Features of NS blade
■ Configuration of NS blade Air knife

NS blade
Wiping gas flow

Wiping nozzle

Tracking

NS blade Strip

Cross section of nozzle

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2. Features of NS blade
■ NS blade advantage

Wiping width ( Strip width)

1. Non contact baffle setting
Safety for high speed
BLADE Wiping gas flow operation

2. According to the jet effect,

Nozzle
EOC and splash shall be
avoided even at high
Position speed operation
variable
*EOC: Edge over coating

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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3. High speed coating test using NS blade
■ Schematic of experiment apparatus

Air pressure

Sound meter
Nozzle

Camera

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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3. High speed coating test using NS blade
■ Test results 1 / Edge splash (Front view and side view)

Wiping nozzle

Reduce
Edge splash Edge
Splash

Front view Side view Front view Side view

(a) Ordinary nozzle (b) NS blade

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NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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3. High speed coating test using NS blade
■ Test results 1 / Edge splash (Front view and side view)

Without NS blade With NS blade

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3. High speed coating test using NS blade
Flow velocity vector

Z Z

X Y X Y

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 3. High speed coating test using NS blade
■ Test results 2/ Coating thickness distribution

Coating weight distribution (near the strip edge)

+60%
Strip
Edge over coat
Fwithout
w/o EB BLADE (F)
+40%
Coating weight

Bwithout
w/o EB BLADE (B)

+20%
Fwith
With EB (F)
BLADE

Target Bwith
with EB (B)
BLADE

Very little variation

in the coating weight
-20%
5 10 15 20
Distance from strip edge (mm)
⇒ NS blade is effective in prevent of Edge over coat and allow thin coating
Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA
NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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3. High speed coating test using NS blade
■ Test results 3/ Noise levelImprove Noise level

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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4. Commercial line test
■ Operation condition

Galvanizing Line 55%Aluminum+Zinc coating line

Coil spec. 0.23mm thick X 914mm width 0.35mm thick X 1200mm width

Line 160mpm 150mpm

speed
Coating Z08(40g/m2 per side) AZ40(20g/m2 per side)
thickness
Splash None None

Overcoat None None

Noise 105dB 100dB

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4. Commercial line test
■ Coating weight distribution

180 180
NS blade
Relateive Coating thickness[%]

160 160
Ordinary nozzle
140 140

120 120

100 100

80 80

60 60
0 5 10 15 20 25 25 20 15 10 5 0

Left side Distance from strip edge [mm] Right side

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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5. Conclusion
■ Coating test at test line ⇒ Reduce EOC, noise level and zinc splash

Without NS blade With NS blade

■ Commercial line operation (GI and 55% Al+Zinc bath)

⇒ Achieve maximum line speed and minimum coating weight operation
Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA
NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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Thank you for your attention.

Hatsuki KAKUNO, Makoto KATSUBE, Muneshige OGAWA

NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN
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