CA1069416A - Method and equipment for heat treatment of large tubes - Google Patents

Method and equipment for heat treatment of large tubes

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CA1069416A
CA1069416A CA250,909A CA250909A CA1069416A CA 1069416 A CA1069416 A CA 1069416A CA 250909 A CA250909 A CA 250909A CA 1069416 A CA1069416 A CA 1069416A
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tubes
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heat treating
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Wolfgang Wiedenhoff
Herbert Forster
Helmut Landgraf
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Vodafone GmbH
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Mannesmann AG
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21DMODIFYING 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
    • C21D9/00Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
    • C21D9/08Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for tubular bodies or pipes
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21DMODIFYING 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
    • C21D1/00General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
    • C21D1/34Methods of heating
    • C21D1/42Induction heating
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02PCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P10/00Technologies related to metal processing
    • Y02P10/25Process efficiency

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
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  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Heat Treatment Of Articles (AREA)

Abstract

A B S T R A C T

Method and apparatus for heat treating large thick-walled tubes in which the tubes are heated in two stages respectively involving flame and induction heating to austenitic conversion temperature, the stock being subsequently quenched.

Description

This invention concer~.s a method of and apparatus or installation for heat treating lar~e tubes 9 and more specificall~ thick walled tubes.

It is common practice i~ the heat treatment or tempering of tube~, and particularly o~ large tubes 9 to heat the stock to austQnitic conversion temperature and ~uench by applying a quenching medium to the inner and outer surfaces of the tubes. Heat is applied either inductiYely or b~ ~eans of gas burners. These conventional methods are rather complicated and expensive and frequently it is not possible to control the commencement of cooling. :

It is an object of this in~entîon to provide a method of and apparatus or installation for heat treating or :;
tempering laree tubes which allow~ controlled treatment to be applied particularly to thick-walLed tubes i~ a simple and .
economic manner.

According to the in~ention, a method ~f heat-treati.ng tubes and particularly thick-walled tubes, comprises heating the itubes in two separate stages to austenitic conversion temperature, the first stage:involving flame heating at high e~ergy density up to approximately Curie Temperature~level and the second stage involving inductive heating to austenitic.
conversion temperature at low fre~uency for a duration which corre~pond~ at least to the ~ime requlre~ for temperature equali3ation and temperabure increase, the stoc~ then being ~ uenched.

From another aspect of the invention apparatus for carrying out the aforesaid method comprises transporting means for the tube, an annular burner device arranged forwardly of said air pipe which closely and concentrically surrou~ds the tube to be heated and comprises burner noz~les pointing in the direction towards the air pipe an inductive heatsr device arranged in succe~sion with the annular burner ~nd immediat~l~ succeeded by an exterior ring spra~.
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The advantage~ of the method of this in~ention re~ide in the combination of the economically favourable flame-heating method with an even and uniform temperature equalisation process, particularl~ for thick-walled stock, obtained inductively at low frequency with the resulting pre~ention of temperature differential~ across the thickness of the tube walls during heat treatment.

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~ he accompanying drawing dlagrammatically illustrates one embodiment of the apparatus of the in~entionO

In this apparatus the tuhes 1 are conYeyed in close successlon with ths aid o~ conventional transporting devices through an air pipe 2 and initially heated to approximately Curie temperature by flame heating with the aid of an a~nular burner 3 ~hereof the burner jsts po~nt in the dir~ction towasd~
the air pipe 2 to produce an opposi*e draft or countsrflow flame heating process. The ~nnular burner 3 is succeeded ~ :
-by an inductive heater d~ice 4 which in its tu~n s ~mmedlately - followed by an ann~lar spray device or spr~y ring 5~ If .~

~ ' ~ ~ L_ -required, a further ~pray ring may be additi onally provided in the interior of the tube .

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Claims (3)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A method of heat treating large tubes, comprising heating the tubes in two separate stages to austenitic conversion temperature, the first stage involving flame heating at high energy density up to approximately Curie Temperature level and the second stage involving inductive heating to austenitic conversion temperature at low frequency for a duration which corresponds at least to the time required for temperature equalisation and temperature increase, the stock then being quenched.
2. A method of heat treating large tubes according to Claim 1, wherein the flame-heating process is applied by the opposite draft or counterflow method with the tube set in rotation.
3. Apparatus for performing the method according to Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein an air exhaust or outlet pipe is provided concentric with the tube being treated and comprising transporting means for the tube, an annular burner device arranged forwardly of said air pipe which closely and concentri-cally surrounds the tube to be heated and comprises burner nozzles pointing in the direction towards the air pipe an inductive heater device arranged in succession with the annular burner and immediately succeeded by an exterior ring spray.
CA250,909A 1975-06-30 1976-04-23 Method and equipment for heat treatment of large tubes Expired CA1069416A (en)

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DE19752529518 DE2529518B1 (en) 1975-06-30 1975-06-30 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LARGE PIPE QUARING

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CA1069416A true CA1069416A (en) 1980-01-08

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JP (1) JPS526322A (en)
CA (1) CA1069416A (en)
DE (1) DE2529518B1 (en)
FR (1) FR2316339A1 (en)
GB (1) GB1541093A (en)
IT (1) IT1059742B (en)

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DE2714791A1 (en) * 1977-04-02 1978-10-05 Aeg Elotherm Gmbh PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUS HEATING OF A LONG METAL WORKPIECE, IN PARTICULAR FOR CONTINUOUS HEATING OF STEEL PIPES
JPS57192991U (en) * 1981-05-30 1982-12-07
DE3140936A1 (en) * 1981-10-15 1983-05-05 Esser Werke GmbH vorm. Westmontan-Werke, 4788 Warstein Process and device for hardening the inside of a two-ply steel pipe
JPH0512274Y2 (en) * 1986-11-07 1993-03-29
CN100335662C (en) * 2005-01-28 2007-09-05 三一重工股份有限公司 Production of concrete transporting pipes and special quenching apparatus thereof

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FR2284847A1 (en) * 1974-09-11 1976-04-09 Siderurgie Fse Inst Rech Steelworks reheating furnaces for slabs - using both blast furnace gas and induction heating to reduce consumption of fuel

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DE2529518B1 (en) 1976-08-26
JPS526322A (en) 1977-01-18
FR2316339B1 (en) 1979-01-19
GB1541093A (en) 1979-02-21
DE2529518A1 (en) 1976-08-26
FR2316339A1 (en) 1977-01-28
IT1059742B (en) 1982-06-21

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