EP0075438A1 - Traitement thermique de métaux - Google Patents

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EP0075438A1
EP0075438A1 EP82304867A EP82304867A EP0075438A1 EP 0075438 A1 EP0075438 A1 EP 0075438A1 EP 82304867 A EP82304867 A EP 82304867A EP 82304867 A EP82304867 A EP 82304867A EP 0075438 A1 EP0075438 A1 EP 0075438A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
    • C21D1/74—Methods of treatment in inert gas, controlled atmosphere, vacuum or pulverulent material
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
    • C21D9/52—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for wires; for strips ; for rods of unlimited length
    • C21D9/54—Furnaces for treating strips or wire
    • C21D9/56—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire
    • C21D9/561—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire with a controlled atmosphere or vacuum
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B9/00—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity
    • F27B9/14—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity characterised by the path of the charge during treatment; characterised by the means by which the charge is moved during treatment
    • F27B9/20—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity characterised by the path of the charge during treatment; characterised by the means by which the charge is moved during treatment the charge moving in a substantially straight path
    • F27B9/24—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity characterised by the path of the charge during treatment; characterised by the means by which the charge is moved during treatment the charge moving in a substantially straight path being carried by a conveyor
    • F27B9/243—Endless-strand conveyor
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D1/00—Casings; Linings; Walls; Roofs
    • F27D1/18—Door frames; Doors, lids or removable covers
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  • This invention relates to the heat treatment of metals.
  • heat treatment processes such as annealing, spheroidising, sintering, brazing, malleabilising and hardening
  • the heat treatment may be performed on a batch or continuous basis.
  • Continuous heat treatment furnaces are typically open-ended. They have an inlet for the metal or work to be heat treated, a thermal treatment region, a cooling region, and an outlet for the work.
  • the work is advanced through the furnace at a chosen rate so that it is moved through the thermal treatment zone where it is raised to the necessary treatment temperature and is then passed through the cooling region, in which the work is cooled to a temperature at which it will not become oxidised on exposure to .ambient air.
  • the required atmosphere is typically generated in, for example, an exothermic or endothermic gas generator or an ammonia cracker.
  • the atmosphere is supplied to the thermal treatment region and expands to fill the whole gas space in the furnace. Since the atmosphere is particularly flammable, it is generally necessary to burn the atmosphere both the furnace entrance, and furnace outlet. There is thus a bidirectional flow regimen in the furnace with gas diverging in both directions, from the thermal treatment zone.
  • a method of heat treating metal in a continuous furnace having in sequence an entrance, a thermal treatment region, a cooling region, and an exit comprising the steps of substantially preventing ingress of air into the furnace through the entrance (if required) and the exit; introducing non-reactive gas (as hereinafter defined) and reducing gas into the furnace at chosen locations; creating a gas flow regimen within the furnace to provide non-oxidising or reducing conditions substantially throughout the furnace and, if desired, atmospheres of different compositions in the thermal treatment and cooling regions, and passing the metal through the furnace from the entrance to the exit.
  • non-reactive gas as hereinafter defined
  • non-reactive gas a gas which is non-reactive towards other constituents of the atmosphere and the work or -metal being heat treated.
  • nitrogen is used as the non-reactive gas, though, in certain instances, it may be desirable to use argon as an alternative if nitrogen has any deleterious effect on the metal being heat treated.
  • 'heat treating metal' as used herein includes annealing (including spheroidising), sintering (e.g. of powders including non-metallic powders) brazing, hardening and malleabilising.
  • annealing including spheroidising
  • sintering e.g. of powders including non-metallic powders
  • the method according to the invention is particularly suited for use in annealing and sintering.
  • the method according to the invention is suitable for use with both horizontal continuous furnaces (i.e. furnaces through which the work travels, generally horizontally) and vertical furnaces (furnaces through which the work passes vertically).
  • horizontal continuous furnaces include continuous strip wire furnaces, mesh belt furnaces, roller hearth furnaces and pusher furnaces.
  • non-reactive gas and reducing gas are introduced directly into the thermal treatment region of a horizontal furnace.
  • they can be introduced into the furnace at a location in the cooling region, for example, at one or more locations near to the thermal treatment region, but alternatively or additionally at one or more locations remote from the thermal treatment region, the flow being such that a substantial portion of the reducing gas flows into the thermal treatment region.
  • the non-reactive gas and the reducing gas are typically introduced into the furnace at about ambient temperature, while the thermal treatment region may be at temperature of up to 1100 degrees C depending on the kind of heat treatment to be performed, there is a substantial expansion of the gases in the thermal treatment region.
  • Means providing a physical obstruction to the gas flow may be employed in the cooling region of the furnace to help impede flow of gas out of the cooling region through the furnace exit.
  • non-reactive gas is supplied to the cooling region at one or more locations, typically with a component of velocity horizontally in the direction of the thermal treatment region, so as further to impede the flow of gases out of the thermal treatment region through the cooling region.
  • any flue or the like at or rear the exit is desirably sealed to prevent air from flowing into the furnace therethrough.
  • non-reactive gas may also perform the above-mentioned function of reducing the proportion of reactive gas in the atmosphere leaving the exit of the furnace.
  • flow restriction means are provided there so as to impede the flow of gas into the furnace without preventing the metal being treated from passing out of the furnace.
  • said means providing a physical obstruction to the flow of gas out of the cooling region are also used to help impede in leakage of gas into the furnace through the exit.
  • a suitable flow restriction means comprises one or more curtains comprising a multitude of generally vertically depending fibres or filaments which when not displaced obturate substantially the whole cross-sectional area of the furnace at or near the outlet but whose lower ends can be displaced laterally by metal being passed through the furnace to allow the metal to pass through the or each curtain.
  • a combination of such flow restriction means and means for introducing non-restrive gas into the furnace at or near to the flow restriction means is generally particularly effective in substantially preventing ingress of air into the furnace through the outlet.
  • a part of the cooling region near to the furnace exit has spaced-apart partitions and/or curtains or the like defining at least one chamber into which nitrogen or other non-reactive gas is introduced, the partitions being arranged to permit metal being treated to pass through the chamber or chambers.
  • Such a technique may be employed generally in heat treatment furnaces to help reduce the total consumption of gas.
  • sintering it is known to employ a pre-heat region intermediate the sintering (or thermal treatment region) and the furnace entrance.
  • Lubricant and the like are oxidised in the pre-heat region.
  • a limited flow of air into the furnace through its entrance may be tolerated to help create the necessary oxidising conditions.
  • the invention also provides a method of heat treating metal in a continuous furnace having, in sequence, an entrance, a thermal treatment region, a cooling region and an exit, and also having at or near to one end thereof spaced-apart partitions and/or curtains (or the like) defining at least one chamber adapted to permit metal being treated to pass therethrough, said method comprising the steps of introducing a suitable gas or gases into the thermal treatment region to provide a suitable atmosphere for the treatment, supplying non-reactive gas to the chamber or chambers so as substantially to prevent ingress of air from outside the furnace through the chamber or chambers into a part of the furnace intermediate the chamber or chambers, and the thermal treatment region, and passing metal through the furnace from the entrance to the exit.
  • the non-reactive gas is preferably introduced directly into the chamber or chambers.
  • the introduction of non-reactive gas into the chamber or chambers is preferably at such a rate and the physical obstruction that the partitions present to the flow of gas is preferably such that: where: Pc is the pressure in the chamber or chambers
  • the chamber or chambers are in the cooling region near the exit end of the furnace and with the pressure in the chamber or chambers greater than atmospheric pressure the tendency for air to flow or seep into the cooling region of the furnace through the furnace exit is reduced.
  • the pressure in the chamber or chambers greater than the pressure in the rest of the cooling region and the pressure in the thermal treatment region the creation of the desired flow regimen in the furnace, with a non-flammable gas mixture leaving the furnace exit, is facilitated while enabling the total requirements for non-reactive and reducing gas to be reduced.
  • these chambers will typically intercommunicate with and be at substantially the same pressure as one another.
  • the cooling region there are at least two, and typically three or more chambers, each supplied directly with non-reactive gas.
  • a relatively high hydrogen (or other reactive gas) concentration e.g. 50% by volume or more
  • the concentratoin of hydrogen in the outermost chamber being such that the atmosphere therein is non-flammable.
  • Having a high hydrogen concentration in most of the cooling region assists in cooling the metal owing to the relatively high specific heat of hydrogen.
  • Such a high hydrogen concentration may be desirable if the furnace is required to treat a particularly large mass of metal per unit time, but on other occasions may be unnecessary, and, instead, it may be desirable to confine the highest hydrogen concentrations to the thermal treatment region by introducing most of the hydrogen into the thermal treatment region directly, or into a part of the cooling region near to the thermal treatment region.
  • each partition may take the form of a flap adapted to make a substantially fluid-tight seal or engagement with the metal being treated and the sides of the furnace.
  • each partition may comprise a row of members of 'fingers' pivotally mounted or hinged at the top of the furnace and extending downwardly to the work-carrying surface of the furnace, with adjacent 'fingers' overlapping.
  • Such an arrangement offers a physical obstruction to the flow of gas while permitting the metal to be treated to pass therethrough.
  • Various materials may be employed to form the partitions. For example, they mey be of steel or ceramic material or may be of a suitable composite or laminate.
  • the reducing gas may be hydrogen, typically supplied from a container of commercially pure hydrogen under pressure, or an ammonia cracker, or may be a hydrocarbon such as methane or propane.
  • the reducing gas may alternatively be a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen generated in situ by thermal decomposition of a volatile organic compound, such as methanol. At temperatures above 700 degrees C one mole of methanol decomposes to yield one mole of carbon monoxide and two moles of hydrogen.
  • Methanol is a preferred source of hydrogen if the work to be heat treated is oily. If there is grease on the work it may also be advantageous to introduce water into the treatment region or a pre-heat region to combat deposition of soot on the work. This may be done by passing non-reactive gas through a humidifier before it enters the treatment region. It is important that the metal itself is not oxidised and thus non-oxidising or reducing conditions (so far as the metal is concerned) are maintained substantially throughout the furnace.
  • non-reactive gas may be introduced into the furnace at one or more locations intermediate the thermal region and the inlet, preferably with a horizontal component of velocity in the direction of the inlet, so as to help prevent or limit the ingress of air into the furnace through the inlet.
  • a baffle or baffles, or arrangement of chamber with supply of non-reactive gas thereto such as may be employed in the cooling region may be used at the inlet or entry end of the furnace.
  • the reducing gas in the gas mixture passing through the inlet is burnt off as in conventional operation of a continuous heat treatment furnace.
  • composition of the atmosphere in the thermal treatment region of the furnace will b chosen inter alia in accordance with the treatment to be performed, the composition of the metal to be treated, the dew point of the fluids used to form the atmosphere, whether or not the metal to be treated comes into the furnace carrying oil on its surface and the effectiveness of the measure adopted to limit or exclude air from the furnace.
  • Typical atmospheres that can be created in the thermal treatment region for various treatments of various materials are set out in tables 1 and 2 below (though in some instances higher hydrogen concentrations may be employed).
  • the atmosphere substantially throughout the cooling region contains a substantially lower proportion of reducing gas such as hydrogen than the atmosphere in the termal treatment region.
  • reducing gas such as hydrogen
  • relatively high hydrogen (or other reducing gas) concentrations in a major portion of the cooling region may be required (eg for efficient cooling or to enable an increased throughput of work to be dealt with) and indeed the reducing gas concentration may be higher than or substantially the same as that in the termal treatment region.
  • the method according to the invention may also be employed in the heat treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in continuous vertical heat treatment furnaces.
  • a vertical strip annealing furnace which comprises a generally vertical rising leg having an inlet at its bottom and a generally vertical downward leg having an outlet at its bottom, the two legs intercommunicating at the top.
  • Guide means are typically located within the furnace for guiding the part of the strip from the inlet to the outlet.
  • a thermal treatment region is provided near the top thereof, and a cooling region therebelow.
  • non-reactive gas such as nitrogen is supplied to the up leg at a plurality spaced apart locations and reducing gas, preferably comprising hydrogen, is preferably introduced into the down leg in one or both of the cooling region or the thermal treatment region.
  • reducing gas preferably comprising hydrogen
  • one flow of non-reactive gas is introduced into the furnace, proximate to the inlet thereof and another flow proximate to the outlet thereof so as to inhibit or prevent the flow of air into the furnace therethrough.
  • the aforesaid chamber or chambers may be employed at the exit (or outlet) end of the furnace, and, also, if desired, an analogous arrangement at the inlet or entry end.
  • the partitions may each comprise a generally horizontal plate with an aperture formed therethrough to guide the strip.
  • hydrogen or cracked ammonia may be introduced solely into the cooling region to create an atmosphere containing more hydrogen than that required in the thermal treatment region. Owing to its relatively low density in comparison with nitrogen, or argon, there will be a considerable upward drift of hydrogen from the cooling region into the termal treatment region I and thus the necessary-atmosphere therein may be provided.
  • Nitrogen or other non-reactive gas is preferably supplied to the rising leg of the furnace so as to limit substantially or prevent a flow of hydrogen from the down leg of the furnace to the rising leg. By this means, the rate at which hydrogen need be supplied to the furnace may be reduced in comparison with conventional practice.
  • This example relates to the annealing of ferrous metal parts in a standard Birlec 18" mesh belt furnace.
  • the mesh belt furnace indicated by the reference 2
  • the furnace has an inlet 4 and an outlet 6 for the work to be annealed.
  • the furnace has a thermal treatment region 8, located near to the inlet 4, and a cooling region 10, intermediate the outlet 6 and the thermal treatment region 8.
  • the thermal treatment region 8 is heated by means of "glow-bar" heating elements (not shown).
  • Work to be annealed is fed on to an endless mesh belt 11 which is driven around an endless path extending through the furnace 2 from the inlet 4 to the outlet 6, the belt 11 being mounted on rollers 12, at lease one of which is driven by means of a motor (not shown).
  • work to be annealed is loaded on to the belt just in advance of the inlet 4 and is conducted through the furnace at a chosen rate until it passes through the outlet 6 where it is lifted off the belt.
  • inlets 14 and 16 Positioned underneath the mesh belt 11 in the thermal treatment region 8 are two inlets 14 and 16 through which gas can be supplied to the treatment region 8. Inlets 14 and 16 form part of the furnace before it was adapted to operate the method according to the invention.
  • the injector 18 comprises an outer pipe 22 for nitrogen and an inner 26 for methanol coaxial with the pipe 22.
  • the pipe 26 terminates within the pipe 22, a short distance above its outlet.
  • the injector 20 is substantially identical to the injector 18 having an outer nitrogen pipe 24, and an inner methanol pipe 28.
  • the injectors 18 and 20 are operable such that droplets of methanol become entrained in the nitrogen and vaporise before impinging upon the work to be annealed.
  • a directional nitrogen injector 30 comprising a pipe having perforations or apertures pointing at an angle of 45 to the vertical in the direction of the outlet 6 extends into the cooling region 10 from the roof of the furnace 2.
  • the injector 30's position in the cooling region is relatively near to the outlet 6 of the furnace.
  • Positioned intermediate injector 30 and the outlet 6 are four rows of curtains 34 depending from the roof furnace 2 and ending a sufficient distance above the mesh belt 10 to enable work to pass therethrough.
  • the curtains each comprise a multitude of closely grouped together , generally vertically depending, glass fibres which when the curtain is "closed” substantially obturate the outlet of the furnace, but which may be parted by metal passing through the furnace thereby permitting the metal to pass out of the furnace.
  • a directional nitrogen injector 32 Extending downwardly into an upper part of the cooling region 10 is a directional nitrogen injector 32 having apertures or perforations pointing at an angle of 45° to the vertical in the direction of the thermal treatment region 8.
  • the injector 32 is positioned intermediate the injector 30 and the thermal treatment regions.
  • nitrogen is typically introduced into the cooling region 10 from the injectors 30 and 32 so as to purge air from the furnace.
  • the means for heating the thermal treatment region 8 are then activated so as to raise the temperature therein to a chosen treatment value.
  • Nitrogen and methanol may then be introduced into the treatment region 8 so as to create a desired atmosphere therein.
  • the methanol, introduced as liquid flows into the treatment region 8, so it vaporises with a considerable expansion in volume.
  • the nitrogen introduced into the treatment region 8 through the injectors 18 and 20 and through the inlets 14 and 16 is warmed from about ambient temperatures to the treatment temperature and also expands.
  • the nitrogen introduced into the cooling region 10 through the injector 32 has a component of velocity in the direction of the thermal treatment region 8 and its flow is arranged to be sufficient so as to inhibit considerably the flow of expanding gases out of the thermal treatment region 8 into the cooling region 10. These gases thus flow largely in the direction of the inlet 4. They pass into a flue 38 where flammable constituents are burned off. A sliding plate 40 is provided for the purposes of adjusting the flow of such gas into the flue 38.
  • the flow of gases under the plate 40 will be sufficient to prevent ingress of substantial quantities of air into the furnace through the inlet 4.
  • nitrogen may be introduced into the furnace intermediate the treatement region 8 and the inlet 4 through a nozzle or injector (now shown) having one or more outlets pointing towards inlet 4. The additional nitrogen flow thus created helps prevent ingress of air through the inlet 4.
  • the arrangement of the injector 30 and the curtains 34 substantially limits the ingress of air into the furnace through the outlet 6. If there is any flue associated with the outlet 6, similar to the flue 38, for burning-off inflammable gas, this should be sealed to prevent air flowing into the furnace therethrough.
  • Suitable nitrogen methanol supply equipment for the use with the furnace shown in Figure 1 is illustrated in Figure 2.
  • the equipment includes a nitrogen supply pipeline 50 communicating with a source (not shown) of commercially pure nitrogen.
  • this source is a vacuum-insulated vessel containing nitrogen in its liquid state, the vessel being fitted with a vaporiser so as to vaporise liquid nitrogen.
  • the supply equipment also includes a pipeline 52 communicating with a vessel (not shown) containing liquid methanol.
  • the methanol may be supplied to the pipeline 52 by means of a pump or under the pressure of nitrogen supplied to the ullage space of the aforesaid vessel containing methanol.
  • An isolating or shut-off value 54 is positioned in the nitrogen pipeline 50 and is operable to isolate the inlet 14 and 16, the injector 18, 20, 30 and 32 from the source of nitrogen.
  • a pressure regulator 56 is located downstream, of the valve 54 in the pipeline 50 and is operable to adjust the supply in pressure of nitrogen to pipes 58, 60, 62 and 64, communicating with the pipeline 50 downstream of the regulator 56.
  • a pipe 58 communicates with two subsidiary pipes 72 and 74, serving the injectors 30 and 32 respectively.
  • the pipe 60 communicates with the inlets 14 and 16, the pipe 62 with the nitrogen pipe 22 of the injector and the pipe 64 connects the source of nitrogen to the pipe 24 of the injector 20.
  • Flow control valves 66 are located in each pipe 60, 62 and 64. In each such pipe there is provided a flow meter 68 downstream of the valve 66.
  • a flow meter is also provided in the pipe 58.
  • a pressure regulator 70 located downstream of the respective flow meter 68.
  • the pipe 58 ends in the union of the pipes 72 and 74 and flow control valves 76 and 78 are provided in the pipes 72 and 74 respectively.
  • the apparatus shown in Figure 2 has means for humidifying nitrogen supplied to the injector 20.
  • This means comprises a drum 82 containing water having an inlet 80 which is submerged beneath the water and which communicates with the pipeline 64 downstream of the valve 70.
  • the drum 82 has an outlet communicating with a pipe 86 leading to the nitrogen pipe 28 of the injector 20.
  • valve 84 is opened and all the nitrogen in the pipe 64 flows through the valve 84 and thence into the pipe 86, whereas when the valve 84 is closed, all the nitrogen entering the pipeline 64 flows through the drum 82.
  • the purpose of the humidifier will be described below.
  • the methanol pipeline 52 has first shut off or isolating valve 88, disposed therein. Downstream of the methanol pipe 88 is a filter 90 to remove any suspended solids from the methanol.
  • a pipeline 96 communicates with the pipeline 52 downstream of filter 90, the pipeline 96 communicating with the methanol pipe 26 of the injector 18.
  • a flow control valve 98 is provided in pipe 96, and downstream of the valve 98 is a flow meter 100. Downstream of the union of the pipeline 96 with the pipeline 52, is a flow control valve 92, and downstream of that a flow meter 94. Downstream of the flow meter 94, the pipeline 52 communicates with the methanol pipe 28 of the injector 20.
  • the furnace 2 Before adaptation by fitting the injectors 18, 20, 30 and 32, and the curtains 34, and connecting the inlets 14 and 16 to the nitrogen (as well as shutting off any flue at the outlet end of the furnace), the furnace 2 was operated by supplying 2,000 standard cubic feet per hour of rich exothermically generated gas to the thermal treatment region 8 through the inlets 14 and 16. The resulting flammable gas mixture was burned off at both ends of the furnace. It was found that bright work could be obtained by operating the method according to the invention when the furnace was adapted as shown in Figures 1 and 2. In a typicaly example, universal joint forgings were annealed at 900°C in the thermal treatment region 8 and then cooled to near ambient temperature in the cooling region 10. The supply of nitrogen and methanol to the respective fluid inlets and injectors was as follows:-
  • Inlets 14 and 16 220 standard cubic feet per hour of nitrogen.
  • Injectors 18 an 20 440 standard cubic feet per hour of nitrogen and 2 litres per hour of methanol.
  • Injector 30 100 standard cubic feet per hour of nitrogen.
  • Injector 32 100 standard cubic feet per hour of nitrogen.
  • Parts from large castings to small pressings were treated in the furnace with the nitrogen and methonal supplied to the furnace of the rates described above at the maximum thermal treatment region temperatures in the range 720 to 1060°C.
  • Figure 3 illustrates the variation in the composition of the furnace atmosphere with the location in the furnace when the treatment region 8 is operated at 970°C. It can be seen that the concentration of hydrogen in the atmosphere in the treatment region 8 was in the order of 7%, but it decreased progressively along the cooling region 10 in the direction of the outlet 6, falling to below 1% before the outlet 6 is reached. Similarly, the carbon monoxide level falls from between 3.5% and 4% in the thermal treatment region to below 1% at the end of the cooling region 10 remote- from the thermal treatment region 8. There is a corresponding fall in carbon dioxide concentration from about 0.4% in the thermal treatment region 8 to below 0.1% at the end of the cooling region 10 remote from the thermal treatment region 8, (all percentages are by volume). Thus the gas leaving the furnace through the outlet 6 was substantially free of flammable reducing gas.
  • methonal was chosen as the source of reducing gas in view of the oily condition of some of the work to be treated. This gave an atmosphere having a relatively high dew point in the thermal treatment zone eliminating the position on the heating elements caused by entrained oil when using a nitrogen methane or nitrogen hydrogen atmosphere. Nonetheless, owing to the supply of nitrogen to the cooling region 10, a substantially non-reactive atmosphere is created there under the prevailing conditions, thus enabling a bright finish to the work to be obtained.
  • the injectors 18 and 20 were designed with the pipes 22 and 24 closed at their respective bottoms but with orifices in their sides.
  • methanol leaving the pipes 26 and 28 struck the closed ends of the pipes 22 and 24, breaking into droplets which were carried by the nitrogen through orifices in the pipes 22 and 24 into the treatment region 8.
  • the humidifier drum 82 was used to add water vapour to the atmosphere and thereby help prevent soot formation on the work and the furnace structure.
  • a flame curtain was provided under the mesh belt 10 at the inlet end of the furnace when treating large pressings. The purpose of this was to consume oxygen in trapped air from the underside of the pressings.
  • a continuous furnace 200 has an inlet 202 for work to be sintered a thermal treatment region 204 having means (not shown) for raising it to a treatment temperature, a region 206 intermediate the inlet 202 and the thermal treatment region 204, an outlet 208 for work, and a cooling region 210 intermediate the thermal treatment region 204 and the outlet 208.
  • This inlet 212 is part of the conventional fittings of the furnace.
  • each injector 214 terminate in the cooling region 210, each injector being associated with its own nitrogen supply pipeline 216 in which are disposed a flow control valve 218 and a calibrated orifice 220 downstream of the flow control valve 218.
  • the pipes are all connected to a common pipeline 222 for the supply of nitrogen.
  • a nitrogen distribution pipe 224 terminating in the furnace.
  • the orientation of the distribution pipe 224 is adjustable so as to enable the direction at which gas issues therefrom to be varied. It is preferably set such that there is a substantial component of velocity in the direction of the outlet.
  • the distributor pipe 224 has outlet orifices whose axes extend at an angle of 45° to the vertical.
  • Curtains 226 are positioned in the furnace between the injector 224 and the outlet 208.
  • the array of curtains 226 is analogue to that described with reference to Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.
  • the distribution pipe 224 has its own nitrogen supply pipe 228 in which is disposed a flow control valve 230 upstream of a calibrated orifice 232.
  • the pipe 228 is connected tothe pipeline 222.
  • the cooling region 210 is typically cooled by an arrangement of water jackets 234.
  • Nitrogen may also be supplied to the region 206 of the furnace 200 through a distributor pipe 238 that is analogous to the distribution pipe 224.
  • the pipe 238 is positioned such that gas issuing from it has a substantial component of velocity in the direction of the inlet 202.
  • the arrangement of the pipe is such that gas leaves the pipe at an angle of 45° to the vertical.
  • the pipe 238 is associated with pipe 240 having a calibrated orifice 242 disposed therein and a flow control valve 244 upstream thereof.
  • the gas inlet 212 is connected to a gas mixing panel 246 which is in turn connected to a source of nitrogen (not shown), and a source of cracked ammonia.
  • a source of nitrogen not shown
  • a source of cracked ammonia At its inlet and outlet ends, the furnace is provided as a standard fitting with inlet pipes 250 for gas. These pipes are sealed off. Also at the inlet and outlet ends of the furnace are flues 252. The flue at the outlet end of the furnace is sealed.
  • the operation of the furnace shown in Figure 4 is substantially similar to that shown in Figure 1.
  • Work to be sintered is advanced through the furnace 200 by means (not shown).
  • a chosen mixture of nitrogen and cracked ammonia is introduced to the thermal treatment region ' 204 of the furnace from the inlet 212 located in the cooling region 210.
  • the injectors 214 are used to introduce nitrogen at spaced apart locations in the cooling region 210 so as to create within the cooling region a nitrogen flow that helps to prevent free flow of gas from the inlet 212 and the thermal treatment region 204 in the direction of the outlet 208.
  • the curtains 226 act as an impedence to the flow of gas out of the furnace 200 through the outlet 208, and also the nitrogen directed thereat from the distributor pipe 224 to help to prevent the ingress of air into the furnace through the outlet 208.
  • the nitrogen directed to the inlet 202 from the distributor pipe 238 helps to prevent ingress of air into the furnace through the inlet.
  • Nitrogen and cracked ammonia entering tho- thermal treatment region 204 tend to expand and by virture of the introduction of nitrogen through the injector 214 into the cooling region 210 tends to flow out of the thermal treatment region 204 through region 206, and then into the flue 252 where its content of inflammable gas (hydrogen) is burned-off. It is to be appreciated that the effect of the production of nitrogen into the cooling zone 210 through the injectors 214 and the distributor 224 renders negligible the amount of inflammable gas in the gas leaving the furnace through the outlet 208.
  • an atmosphere containing from 20 to 30% by volume of hydrogen and a balance of nitrogen is conventionally used, this atmosphere being supplied to the furnace through the inlet 212 and the sealed inlets 250.
  • the hydrogen rquirements can be substantially reduced and that the nitrogen flow to each of the injectors 214 and the distributor 224 may typically amount to some 400 to 500 standard cubic feet per hour, the nitrogen flow being evenly divided between the 8 injectors and the distributor pipe.
  • the gas mixture supplied to the pipe 212 and hence to the thermal treatment region may typically be a mixture of 50 standard cubic feet per hour of cracked ammonia (25% nitrogen 75% hydrogen) and up to 300 standard cubic feet per hour of nitrogen.
  • Nitrogen is preferably supplied to the distributor 238 at a rate of 150 to 200 standard cubic feet per hour.
  • This example relates to the bright annealing of stainless steel strip in a vertical annealing furnace.
  • a vertical stainless steel bright annealing furnace 300 comprises an up-leg 302 and a down-leg 304 joined together at the top by a connecting section 306.
  • At the bottom of the up-leg 302 there is an inlet 308 with a strip.
  • At the bottom of the down-leg there is an outlet 310 for strip.
  • the inlet 308 and outlet 310 are relatively restricted in comparison with the general cross sectional area of the legs.
  • Located near to the inlet 308 is a baffle 312 which restricts flow of gas from above the baffle 312 in the direction of the inlet 308.
  • a similar baffle is located near the outlet 310 so as to restrict flow of gas from thereabove through the outlet 310.
  • Guide rolls 314 are located near the inlet 308 and outlet 310 and in the section 306 so as to feed the strip continuously through the furnace.
  • a thermal treatment region 320 At an upper region of the down-leg 304 is located a thermal treatment region 320. This region is surrounded by radiant heating elements 322 outside the down-leg 304.
  • a cooling region 318 is located beneath the thermal treatment region 320 in the down-leg 304. The cooling region 318 is provided with a fan (not shown) for circulating gas within that region.
  • Gas inlets to the legs of the furnace are provided at several spaced apart locations with the up-leg 302 and the down-leg 304.
  • inlets 326 all communicating with the up-leg of the furnace so as to provide an atmosphre consisting substantially of nitrogen in the up-leg.
  • inlets 328 for nitrogen communicating with a part of the down leg 304 near to the outlet 310 and intermediate the outlet 310 and its baffle 312. This enables nitrogen to be supplied to the outlet so as to prevent substantially all ingress of air to the furnace through the outlet 310.
  • inlets 330 for hydrogen or cracked ammonia (three parts hydrgoen to one part nitrogen) to the cooling region 318.
  • the relative rates of supplying nitrogen and hydrgoen (or cracked ammonia) to the furnace are chosen so as to provide suitable conditions for the bright annealing of stainless steel in the cooling region and the thermal treatment region. By excluding or substantially excluding air from the furnace, substantially less hydrogen or cracked ammonia than would otherwise be needed is employed. Furthermore, by arranging the nitrogen flow into the upper leg 302 to be sufficient to exclude the flow of hydrogen from the down-leg 304 into the upper leg 302, the rate of supplying hydrogen to the furnace may be limited to that required to provide suitable atmospheres in the cooling region and the thermal treatment region. It is therefore possible to use considerably less hydrogen in the atmosphere than is achieved in conventional treatment using cracked ammonia. There will be a flow of nitrogen from the up-leg to the down-leg 304.
  • the atmosphere in both the cooling region 318 and the thermal treatment region 320 contains both nitrogen and hydrogen that in the cooling region contains the greater proportion of hydrogen.
  • the atmosphere in both the cooling region 318 and the thermal treatment region 320 contains both nitrogen and hydrogen that in the cooling region contains the greater proportion of hydrogen.
  • some 2,600 cubic feet per hour of cracked ammonia were used, whereas total gas flows in this example can be reduced to the order of 1,700 to 1,800 cubic feet per hour.
  • the cooling region 318 In order to provide adequate cooling in the cooling region 318 it is typically desirable to use an atmosphere having a relatively high concentration of hydrogen in comparison with that used in the thermal treatment region. This is because hydrogen has a high thermal conductivity in comparison with nitrogen. If the source of hydrogen is cracked ammonia, the hydrogen concentration in the cooling region may be arranged to be 60 to 62% (dew point - 50 0 C). Or, if the source of hydrogen is a cylinder of commercially pure hydrogen, 54 - 60% by volume hydrogen (dew point - 55°C). However, in the thermal treatment region, the atmosphere may typically contain from 36 to 43% by volume of hydrogen if the source of hydrogen is cracked ammonia, and from 28 to 41 by volume of hydrogen if the source of hydrogen is a cylinder of compressed commercially pure hydrogen.
  • Such atmosphere can be achieved by introducing nitrogen into the up-leg 302, through the inlets 324 and 326 at the rate of flow in the range of 800 to 1,000 cubic feet per hour, nitrogen into the down-leg 304 through the inlet 328 at a flow rate of 300 to 400 cubic feet per hour, and cracked ammonia at a flow rate of 400 to 450 cubic feet per hour (or hydrogen at a rate of 200 to 300 cubic feet per hour) into the cooling region 318 through the inlet 330.
  • the gas analyses set out in Table 3 below are typically produced.
  • the furnace may be shut down for periods, e.g. for the weekend but still maintained in condition by supplying a gas mixture comprising 96% by volume of nitrogen and 4% by volume of hydrogen to the section 306 to establish such atmosphere throughout the furnace.
  • This example relates to the bright annealing of ferrous or non-ferrous metal strip in an FHD mesh belt furnace.
  • a mesh belt advances strip (or other metal to be treated) from the inlet or entry 602 to the furnace to the outlet or exit 604 from the furnace.
  • the furnace has, in sequence, advancing from the entry 602 to the exit 604, an inlet region 606, a thermal treatment region 608, and a cooling region 610.
  • chambers 612, 614 and 616 defined by generally vertical partitions 618 that cooperate with the walls of the furnace to define the chambers.
  • a sliding plate 619 is provided at the exit 604 and defines a further chamber 621 with the nearest of the partitions 618 thereto.
  • a flare-off means 620 is provided in communication with the top or roof of the inlet region 606 at a location intermediate a chamber 622 in the inlet region 606 and the thermal treatment region 608.
  • the chamber 622 is defined between the walls of the furnace, a first sliding plate 626, included at an angle to vertical, at the entry 602 and a hinged plate 624 which may be raised or lowered to vary the size of the gap betwen the bottom edge of the plate 626 and the mesh belt (not shown).
  • the chambers 612, 614 and 616 each communicate with upper and lower nitrogen-supply plenum chambers 628 and 630, and the chamber 622 with analogous nitrogen-supply plenum chambers 632 and 634.
  • the furnace is also provided with a variable angle nitrogen injector 636 situated in the inlet region 606 of the furnace intermediate the plate 626 and the thermal treatment region 608.
  • a nitrogen inlet 640 to the furnace is also provided at a location in the cooling region 610 near to the thermal treatment region.
  • a variable angle hydrogen injector 638 is also provided in the cooling region outside but near to the chamber 612.
  • the partitions 618 comprise steel plates or flaps each hinged to a support 642 depending from the roof 644 of the furnace.
  • the floor 646 of the furnace and the roof 644 are formed with spaced-apart slots 648 therein to allow nitrogen to pass into each of the chambers 612, 614 and 616 from the chambers 628 and 630.
  • the chambers 628 and 630 have nitrogen inlets 650 and 652 connectible to a source of nitrogen.
  • Baffle plates 654 and 656 are provided in the chamber to block the direct path between the inlets 650 and 652 and the respective sets of slots 648. Thus, in operation, nitrogen flows around the baffles 654 and 656 and through the slots 648, typically providing a laminar flow of gas into the furnace.
  • the partitions hang at an angle of about 10° to the vertical (with their bottom edges nearer to the exit 604 than their top edges) so as to enable some of the nitrogen to be deflected thereby and thus be given a horizontal component of velocity in the direction of the exit.
  • each partition 618 contacts the metal strip being heat treated as it is passed through the furnace.
  • each partition 618 may be provided at its edges with sealing means (not shown) to prevent substantially all gas flow between the partition and the side walls of of the furnace. There is however intercommunication between the chambers over the top edge of the partitions and through the mesh belt 658 of the furnace but seals at such top edge can readily be provided, if desired.
  • the furnace shown in Figures 6 and 7 may be operated as follows. Nitrogen is supplied to the chambers 628,630, 632 and 634 and this is effective to flush air out of the furnace.
  • the thermal treatment region 608 of the furnace is raised to a treatment temperature by heating means (not shown) associated with the furnace. Hydrogen is then supplied to the furnace through the variable angle injector 638, typically orientated so as to direct gas downwards at an angle of 20° to the vertical with a horizontal component of velocityy in the direction of the inlet end of the furnace.
  • the hydrogen reacts with any residual air in the thermal treatment region and once substantially all such residual air has been removed, strip may be advanced continuously through the furnace to be annealed.
  • the furnace is typically set up with the inlets 636 and 640 closed, and the plates 624, 626 and 619 in their lowermost positions.
  • Nitrogen passes into the chambers 612, 614 and 616 from the uppper and lower supply chambers 628 and 630. A pressure in the chambers 612, 614 and 616 in excess of atmospheric pressure is built up. Some nitrogen will thus flow from chamber 616 into the chamber 621 and out of the furnace through exit 604. Introduction of hydrogen into the cooling region from the injector 638 and flow of nitrogen from the chambers 616, 614 and 612 into the cooling region 610 provides a flow of a gas mixture comprising nitrogen and hydrogen into the thermal treatment region 608.
  • This directional flow is caused partly by the obstruction to flow in the opposite direction presented by the partitions 618 and the gas pressure in the chambers 612, 614 and 616 and partly by burning flammable gas issuing from the thermal treatment region 608, such flammable gas being burned in the flare-off means 620.
  • the burning helps to induce a flow in the direction of the entry 602 to the furnace).
  • the pressure in the cooling region 610 at a point near to the chamber 612 and intermediate the chamber 612 and the thermal treatment region 608 will be greater than atmospheric pressure and greater than the pressure in the thermal treatment region 608 itself, provided nitrogen is supplied at a suitable flow rate to the chambers 628 and 630.
  • Flammable gas mixture is burned in the flare-off means 620 as aforementioned. Nitrogen supplied to the chamber 622 from the supply chambers 632 and 634 impedes flow of hydrogen past the burn-off zone and also helps to impede flow of air into the furnace through the entrance 602.
  • Experiments Nos 1 and 2 show that relatively high concentrations of hydrogen can be obtained in the cooling and thermal treatment regions while ensuring that the gas leaving the furnace through the exit 604 is non-flammable.
  • additional nitrogen was admitted into the furnace through the inlet 640.
  • the proportion of hydrogen in the thermal treatment region was substantially less than in Experiments Nos 1 and 2 while still obtaining a relatively high proportion of hydrogen in the cooling region. This demonstrates that a generally unidirectional flow regimen from the cooling region to the thermal treatment region was obtained.
  • Experiment Nos 4 and 5 show that of the nitrogen supplied to the chambers 612, 614 and 616 may all be introduced from the upper plenum chamber 628, and that of the nitrogen supplied to the chamber 622 all may be introduced thereto from the lower plenum chamber 634.
  • the chambers near the exit end of the furnace may be provided by means of a custom-built unit fitted to the exit end of the furnace, thereby extending the length of the furnace.
  • the method according to the present invention may be operated on continuous furnaces used for sintering and having a region in which oil and lubricant on the work being sintered is oxidised. Such region is intermediate the inlet of the furnace and the thermal treatment region. Typically, the sintering temperature in the thermal treatment region is 1100°C and the delubrication region is maintained at a temperature in the range 500 to 700°C.
  • the furnace may be provided with chambers at its entry and exit ends in the manner shown in and described with reference to Figures 6 and 7. In such a furnace a suitable flow regiment may be created by burning-off gas only near the entry end with gas being supplied at the following rates.
  • Nitrogen is supplied to the chambers at the end of the cooling region remote from the thermal treatment region at a rate of from 150 to 200 cubic feet per hour and at a similar rate to the chamber at the entry end of the furnace.
  • Gas generated in an endothermic generator (typically including about 40% by volume of hydrogen) is passed into the cooling region at a location outside but near to the chambers in that region at a rate of 100 cubic feet per hour.
  • Such endothermic gas is also introduced into the cooling region at a location near to the thermal treatment region at a rate of 250 cubic feet per hour and nitrogen is introduced into the same region at a rate of 350 to 400 cubic feet per hour. There is thus a flow of nitrogen and hydrogen in the general direction of the thermal treatment region, reducing conditions being maintained in both the cooling and thermal treatment regions.

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