Size and quality of tube produced by horizontal continuous casting are closely related with structure of the crystallizer.Crystallizer is composed of graphite sleeve
graphite core.A crystallizer was designed for the ingot blank with the outer diameter of 90mm and the inner diameter of 40mm
and the graphite sleeve length
diameter
wall thickness
diameter of liquid injection hole
hole number
core taper
diameter of core inlet
diameter of outlet and the thickness of the mold base are 380mm
92 mm
14mm
10mm
4
1°
47.34mm
36mm and 45mm
respectively.The qualified TP2copper pipe was produced successfully with the crystallizer designed.