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Slide Gate System Purging Plug System

Slide Gate System

Slide Gate Systems are used to control the flow of molten steel from ladles.

With our wide experience, we have been manufacturing slide gate plates and nozzles (in both conventional and new generation designs) for all types of steel grades.

With a higher spigot area that helps in getting high face pressure, OCL’s Slide Gate Mechanisms cause less chances of metal penetration and can provide almost double life than others.

Solutions for Slide Gate System

These are the solutions for Slide Gate System

  • Alumina Carbon, Alumina Zirconia Carbon, Alumina Spinel Carbon and Magnesia Carbon based slide gate plates and nozzles
  • Plates and Nozzles designed with inserts made of Zirconia/Spinel for higher life and specially crafted for new generation plates.
  • TN Mechanism - new generation slide gate mechanism, best suited for new generation plates that are user friendly and give higher life, with greater safety.

Special Features

  • Different qualities of slide gate plates and nozzles –
  • Alumina-Carbon: High abrasion and corrosion resistance for Al or Si-killed steel.
  • Alumina-Zirconia-Carbon: Suitable for high Mn and high Ca steel.
  • Alumina-Spinel-Carbon: Applicable for high Mn and Al-killed steel.
  • Magnesia-Spinel-Carbon: Superior corrosion resistance to high Ca (>30ppm) steel.
    • Plates and Nozzles with inserts –
  • Less permeable to liquid metal or slag due to dense structure.
  • Good thermal shock resistance and high corrosion/erosion resistance.
  • High hot strength.
  • Cost effective and can provide double life over conventional products.
    • TN Mechanism –
  • Higher stroke length (180 mm for TN80 & 140 mm for TN60) designs with off center bore.
  • Fitted in ladle bottom with the running adapter plate and cylinder by minor modification of bell crank system.
  • Four point tightening system causing less possibility of crack during application.
  • Better safety with high heat resistant coil springs.
  • Octagonal geometry of plates gives minimum thermal stress during use.
  • Higher spigot area of plate to get high face pressure causing less chance of metal penetration in between plates.
  • Small & compact design for easy handling.
  • Life of plates increase by 25-35% than existing lower generation mechanisms.
  • Applicable for both direct and bell crank drive system.

    • Purging Plug System

    Purging blocks are fitted at the bottom of the ladle to purge inert gas (Argon) for temperature homogenization, chemistry homogenization and absorbed gas removal.

    OCL’s Purging Plugs have minimal risk of metal infiltration and offer high blowing capacity of 1000-1200 Lt./min.

    Solutions for Purging Plug System

    We offer a range of high performance Directional Purging Plugs with customized design and secondary metallurgical operations which have been adopted by various steel plants.

    • High Alumina and Alumina Spinel based plugs.

    Our Purging Plugs are based on tabular Alumina, Alumina Magnesia Spinel and Alumina Chrome based materials.

    Special Features

    • High resistance to slag and abrasion.
    • High thermal shock resistance.
    • Low RTE values.
    • Numbers of purging slits vary from 20-30.
    • Slit Thickness of 0.25-0.30 mm.
    • Minimum risk of metal infiltration.
    • High Blowing capacity of 1000-1200 Lt./min.