NON-OXIDIZING HEATING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

• Main Authors: HASUNUMA, JUNICHI, YAMAMOTO, TAKEMI, OSANAI, HISASHI, NAKAGAWA, TSUGUHIKO, YAMAGUCHI, RYOSUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 13.03.2001
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BLASTING; CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; CHEMISTRY; DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS,IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KINDOF FURNACE; FURNACES; FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS; HEATING; KILNS; LIGHTING; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON; MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS; OVENS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; RETORTS; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

A non-oxidizing heating method and apparatus in which a non-oxidizing gas of high temperature is continuously generated and supplied into a furnace by changing over a plurality of heat storage type heaters alternately while repeating an operation in which one heater stores heat and the other heater heats and blows the non-oxidizing gas. Since it is possible to heat by producing a completely non-oxidizing atmosphere within the furnace, the method and apparatus can be effectively utilized in furnaces which require heating in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, for example, various furnaces such as a ladle, tundish, etc. used in a field of steel manufacturing and continuous casting, and various furnaces used in a field of heating and heat treatment of metallic materials, and thus, it is effective to achieve reduction of operational cost, improvement of product quality, and improvement of product yield.