1 ALGORYTHMS FOR SPEED AND STRECH CONTROL OF THE MAIN DRIVES OF AN STRECH REDUCING TUBE MILL Dorian MACREA SC IPROLAM SA Negustori 23 Bucharest Romania dorian macrea iprolam ro Costin CEPISCA Politehnica University Spl Indep 313 Bucharest Romania Abstract This paper shows the drive solution the speed references calculation and the automatic control of all speeds range for the assembly of the 24 stands belonging to a stretch reducing mill for seamless pipes The correlation between the speed control and the stretching control of the rolled pipe is also shown The experimental results are real data associated to the most recent project that has been executed at a seamless pipe plant in China 1 Introduction The concept of common drives of the stands using distribution and differential gear boxes represents a flexibility limitation of the performances of the mill but using it we can sensibly reduce the costs of the drives 1 2 Therefore when we are designing rolling mills of this type we have to study carefully the necessity and the utility of choosing individual drives for each stand or common drives 3 If we are using a common reducer driven using main and overlapping drives the rotating speed ratios are changing simultaneously at all stands by control of the rotating speed at both or one of the two motors and maintaining the ratios for the rotating speeds of the rolling stands as been established by designing of the gears Thus in this drive system we can change only the speed average or the stretching average but not the distribution of the deformation values in the individual sequence of the stands 4 5 If we may give up the advantages of the individual speed control on the pipe deformation and if we except a larger slipping between the rolls and the rolled material a current status at easier rolling programs we could accept a common drive with distribution and differential gears 6 7 2 Electromechanical drive solution 2 1 Speed control The 4 motor drive consists of two drive groups which are mechanically separated from one another and therefore allow effective crop end control CEC even with close sequences of tubes For this purpose the entry mill stand group features exceptionally high gear ratios to obtain particularly large elongations Figure 1 The roll speeds for stand position i are calculated as In the entry side drive group 2 Distribution G Gradient relationship of inlet or outlet speed m s in Rolling program AJ Adjusted input value P IOS Inlet or outlet speed at default settings of the motors m s If only the stand group on the inlet side is occupied by roll stands and the drives on the run out side are not used to drive guide stands the following applies OSDD2 0 OSMD2 0 5 Figure 3 Speed diagram ranges 3 Experimental results Table 2 Figure 4 Experimental speed diagram Motor speeds MD1 OD1 MD2 OD2 Nominal 970 74 503 42 970 74 913 10 P 100 1076 64 473 76 1076 64 1142 83 P 100 864 83 533 07 864 83 683 37 ve m s va m s Nominal 1 13 7 35 P 100 1 16 8 81 P 100 1 10 5 89 6 References 1 Pehle H Process Management System for Strech Reducing Mills Ed MDM MEER 1991 2 Thieven P Untersuchungen zur Innenpolygonbildung beim Streck reduzierung von Rohren Stahl und Eisen Revue Nr 8 1996 p 119 126 3 Macrea D Florea N Tudor Gh Considerations and Achievements in the Field of Process Control of Tube Rolling Mills National Confernce for Metalurgy Bucharest 29 30 September 1997 4 Pehle H J Eicholz H Technologische Grundlagen und Entwiklungen des Streckreduzierens von Rohren Ed MDM MEER 1998 5 Manig G Muehle U Rueckert G Quality Management in Tube Production with Online Measuring and Control Systems Ed Mannesmannrohren Werke Sachsen GmbH 1998 6 Macrea D Florea N Loghin M Control and Measuring System for the Rolling Gap at a Continuous Mill International Conference for Metrology and Measuring Systems METSIM 2002 Bucharest 27 28 June 2002 7 Macrea D Cepisca C Measuring System and Method of the Dimensions and Shape for Big Diameter Welded Pipes TheInternational Symposium Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering ATEE 2004 Bucharest 25 26 November 2004 PROGRAM VARIABLES IKM IKD Rolling mill constants The values are determined when drawing up the rolling program ISMD1 Speed of the basic motor of the inlet side drive group ISDD1 Speed of the differential drive motor of the inlet side drive group ISMD2 Speed of the basic motor of the outlet side drive group ISDD2 Speed of the differential drive motor of the outlet side drive group IPSPP Stand position number of the pivot point IPSI Stand position number of the initial pass stand IPSF Stand position number of the final stand IGRSMD i Gear ratio at stand position i of the basic drive IGRSDD i Gear ratio at stand position i of the differential drive ICF Correction factor with unequal speed ranges of the basic motors IGRMD1 Gear ratio of basic motor 1 IGRMD2 Gear ratio of basic motor 2 IGRDD1 Gear ratio of differential drive motor 1 IGRDD2 Gear ratio of differential drive motor 2 OSMD1 Sp