Calculation Method of Optimal Speed Profile for Hot Plate During Controlled Cooling Process Original Research Article

The healthy and rapid development of the controlled cooling technology was hampered by the uneven cooling phenomenon. During the process of hot plate production, the homogeneous cooling along the length direction of plate was constrained by lots of factors. And because the speed was a flexible control parameter, the calculation method of optimal speed profile was developed based on the measured start cooling temperature and its matrix equation was solved by the Cholesky decomposition method. The optimal speed profile was used in online control system. As a result, the temperature distribution along the plate length direction was relatively uniform, and 95% of measured final cooling temperature difference from the target temperature 700 °C was controlled within ±20 °C.