Abstract
Measurement of the melting metal flow rate is necessary and important in processing iron, steel or other metals especially in continuous casting and continuous steel making, but has been very difficult because of the high temperature of the flow.
This paper describes a melting metal flow meter which enables one to measure the flow rate directly, continuously and non-contactingly. The principle of measurement of this flow meter is to make use of the skin effect in electromagnetic field.
Experimental results with pig iron are shown on the range of flow rate 80∼400kg/min and flow time 40∼175s.
