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10. Continuous casting process (ciągle odlewanie stali)

Ccontinuous casting process is used to produce serru fmlshed products directly from liquid Steel, thus eliminating the ingot molds and primary mills used previously. With continuous casting, the steel is poured from sequenced ladles to maintain a desired level in a tundish above an oscillating water-cooled copper mold. The outer skin of the steel strand solidrfies as rt passes through the mold, and this action is further aided by water sprayed on the skin just after the strand exits the mold. The strand passes through sets of supporting rolls, curving rolls, and straightening rolls and is then rolled into slabs. The slabs are cut to length from the moving strand and held for subsequent rolling into finished product.