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    Heat Transfer of Water Sprays on Hot Metal Strip

    IR, you are correct and that is also another one of our issues. There are two sets of sprays, top and bottom. Because of this problem you stated, we get the majority of our cooling from the bottom sprays. These are the sprays the I am trying to get more pressure to in hopes to provide more...
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    Heat Transfer of Water Sprays on Hot Metal Strip

    The temperatures are in the range of 1200-1600F, so being below 90F is not an issue. We typically are looking to drop no more than 100F on the ROTs.
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    Heat Transfer of Water Sprays on Hot Metal Strip

    Thank you for the responses! I do no believe we will be able to reduce the spray nozzles, and if we were it would be a much larger endevour and not an instant fix. Mr. BTU, what is the "hfg" in the latent heat equation? Also, are these values that you're using examples or specific to this...
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    Heat Transfer of Water Sprays on Hot Metal Strip

    I work at a Steel Plant and have just been assigned to the Hot Strip Mill. For those of you not familiar, this mill takes slabs of steel, reheats them in a furnace, and then reduces the thickness through a rolling mill. The problem we are currently having is not meeting our temperatures on the...

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