Brass is a copper-zinc alloy with zinc as the main added element. It contains 63.5%-65% copper, zinc is the balance, and contains trace amounts of lead, iron and other elements. This data set includes the raw material acquisition stage, processing and production stage. When producing brass belt products, scraps are generated, which are usually collected and reused. The production process includes the following links:
(1) Semi-continuous casting
Raw materials such as corner materials and electrolytic plates are put into the smelting furnace and melted under the action of electromagnetic induction heating. The copper melt solidifies into a solid billet through a water-cooled crystallizer.
(2) Hot rolling
After the produced semi-continuous casting billet is heated to the temperature required by the process through a walking heating furnace, it is rolled through a high-pressure hot rolling mill to obtain a strip with a thickness and width that meet the accuracy requirements.
(3) Milling
The hot-rolled blank is face milled through a milling cutter to eliminate the surface oxide layer.
(4) Rough rolling
The raw material is subjected to preliminary rolling and plastic processing to achieve the required width and thickness.
(5) Thick cut
The thick-cut process is used to slit the strip to the required width and re-curl it.
(6) Bell furnace annealing
A bell-type annealing furnace is used to uniformly anneal the copper strip cast billet, reducing or eliminating the segregation of the chemical composition and microstructure of the cast billet to make the quality more stable.
(7) Pickling
After annealing, the blank is pickled, cleaned, fine brushed and passivated to ensure the surface cleanliness and brightness of the strip.
(8) Finish rolling
The data set includes raw material acquisition, production energy consumption, auxiliary materials, packaging, waste treatment and other link consumption.