EP0119877B1 - Hochfrequenzinduktionsschmelzofen und Verfahren zum Vorbereiten von keramischen Materialien mit diesem Ofen - Google Patents

Hochfrequenzinduktionsschmelzofen und Verfahren zum Vorbereiten von keramischen Materialien mit diesem Ofen Download PDF

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EP0119877B1
EP0119877B1 EP84400249A EP84400249A EP0119877B1 EP 0119877 B1 EP0119877 B1 EP 0119877B1 EP 84400249 A EP84400249 A EP 84400249A EP 84400249 A EP84400249 A EP 84400249A EP 0119877 B1 EP0119877 B1 EP 0119877B1
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  • the present invention relates to techniques for preparing ceramic materials or glasses by high frequency induction melting in an oven on the walls of which forms an insulating crust, or autocreuset.
  • ceramic oxides which are good electrical insulators at room temperature, have a resistivity p which decreases with temperature (of the order of 0.1 to 10 Ohms.cm in the vicinity of their liquefaction temperature).
  • the materials to be melted are generally placed in a pot which is a good conductor of heat (generally copper), the walls of which are cooled by a circulation of water and surrounded externally by a helical spiral traversed. by the high frequency inductor current responsible for causing electromagnetic induction to heat the central mass contained in the pot. Due to the vigorous cooling of the cylindrical copper wall constituting the pot, a crust forms inside against this wall and causes the thermal and electrical isolation of the hot liquid part located inside of the crust and which is the seat of the release of all the induced energy.
  • a good conductor of heat generally copper
  • the walls of which are cooled by a circulation of water and surrounded externally by a helical spiral traversed. by the high frequency inductor current responsible for causing electromagnetic induction to heat the central mass contained in the pot. Due to the vigorous cooling of the cylindrical copper wall constituting the pot, a crust forms inside against this wall and causes the thermal and electrical isolation of the hot liquid part located inside of the crust and which is the seat of the release of all the
  • the fact that the helical inducing coil is distinct from the copper crucible leads to a significant loss of high frequency power (of the order of 50%) and the discontinuous nature of the preparation requires considerable energy expenditure. due to the successive preheating of the materials which are obtained either by introduction into the mass of products which are good conductors of electricity, or by direct heating with external means, such as the combustion of gas for example.
  • the crucible is supplied with the aid of two successive coils, namely, a primary coil and a secondary coil constituted by the wall of the crucible itself.
  • German document DE-A-1 135 585 discloses the transmission of power using a helical monospire.
  • the electric oven described in French patent FR-A-1,430,192 essentially consists of a cylindrical metal wall, split along a generator and closed by an insulating joint 2 (Fig. 2) made of sufficiently refractory material so that the metal wall forms a single turn connected on either side of the joint 2 to the two poles of a high frequency electrical source.
  • the slot made in the cylinder constituting the wall of the oven creates a large magnetic field gradient, detrimental to the homogeneity of the inductive heating;
  • the single turn thus formed can only be powered by the high frequency generator through a transformer in the air, which leads to a significant loss of energy and a correlative drop in efficiency. of the installation.
  • the present invention specifically relates to an induction melting furnace, of a simple embodiment, making it possible to overcome the drawbacks previously recalled from the known art.
  • This oven the wall of which constitutes at the same time the inductor, the cold crucible for holding the molten products and the inductor of the oscillating circuit of the high frequency aperiodic generator, is characterized in that its cylindrical wall is cut along a form line general helical thus forming a single flat turn with several turns.
  • the present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of ceramic materials which, while being particularly simple to use, allows continuous manufacture of these same ceramic materials while considerably reducing the energy expenditure necessary for this purpose. .
  • This process for preparing ceramic materials by high frequency induction melting in an oven on the walls of which forms an insulating crust or autocreuset is characterized in that the powder containing the various compounds constituting the material to be prepared is introduced, continuously , in a high frequency electric oven of the above aperiodic type tooth, whose single helical flat turn serves both as an inductor and a cold crucible, the molten material obtained is also continuously drawn from this furnace in a chute passing through the turn.
  • an aperiodic type electric oven that is to say one containing no separate oscillating circuit and having no natural operating frequency, this being chosen by the inductor which determines it automatically by electromagnetic coupling with the product to be melted.
  • this oven is produced by helical winding of a single flat turn which serves both as an inductor system and as a cold crucible, thus eliminating the energy losses inherent in the prior art when using ovens in which the crucible was independent of the inducing coil.
  • an aperiodic generator designed according to the invention, it is the assembly of the flat coil wound helically and of the material to be treated which constitutes, as has been said, the crucible, the inductor system, and the self of the oscillating circuit, the system balancing itself by placing itself at the electrical resonance by the automatic choice of the operating frequency.
  • the withdrawal of the molten material takes place, like the addition of the powder containing the various constituents, to the upper part of the furnace, in the vicinity of the free surface of the molten material. , the homogenization of the mixture of powders and ceramic materials being carried out by convective mixing of the liquid phase.
  • the furnace is filled during the first loading using two materials which are temporarily separated by a cylindrical wall, namely, between this wall and that of the furnace , a first material which will form the autocreuset, and, inside the cylindrical wall, a second material which will be melted.
  • the cylindrical wall which thus separates the two materials at the time of loading can be removed altogether when the filling is completed or, a fortiori, when the oven has reached its normal melting temperature.
  • the insulating layer of the self-crucible can be of the same nature as the product to be melted, provided that it is in a defined physical form, for example SiZr0 4 , varied borosilicate, etc.
  • the initiation of the melting of a ceramic material can be done either conventionally by gas heating, or by introduction into the material to be melted of a conductive plate. for example circular, placed substantially in the central part of the crucible, kept immobilized and supplied for the time necessary using a high frequency current.
  • the flow of liquid enamels is ensured continuously at the level of the free surface of the liquid phase by means of a cooled chute, insulated or not, which crosses the inducing coil.
  • the process which is the subject of the invention therefore makes it possible to obtain both a very good energy efficiency, a continuous overflow casting, self-regulating, and to minimize the preheating means in an installation which can operate continuously for several days without stopping or starting up.
  • the process which is the subject of the invention finds numerous applications in the production of enamels and glasses for the ceramic industries as well as in the vitrification of nuclear waste.
  • FIG. 1 we see, in exploded view, how is formed the crucible 1 of the furnace using a helical winding of a flat strip 2 conductive along a cylindrical surface.
  • This structure of the furnace characteristic of the invention, is obtained by lateral cutting of the cylinder of conductive metal constituting the crucible according to a slot 14 having a substantially helical outline, so as to thus produce a single flat turn with several turns.
  • the device comprises two supply terminals, respectively 3 and 4, in high frequency current coming from the aperiodic generator 15. This shows the essential characteristic of this embodiment in which the single turn with several turns resulting from the winding of the strip 2 constitutes at the same time the melting crucible of the materials to be produced.
  • an arrangement of this kind requires operation in autocreuset, that is to say the formation of a solid crust of impervious material along the internal wall of the crucible to ensure the sealing of the latter.
  • a coil 5 traversed by cold water, maintains the coil and its immediate environment at a temperature low enough to produce this insulating crust.
  • a cylindrical wall 6 internal to the crucible 2 and which temporarily separates, at the time of the first loading, the peripheral material contained in the zone 7 between the crucible 2 and the cylindrical wall 6, intended to form the insulating crust (for example silica SiO 2 ) and the interior 8 of the crucible in which the materials intended to be fused by induction heating are placed such as for example silicates.
  • the cylindrical wall 6 is only used temporarily when the crucible 2 is first loaded and is removed when the crust has formed and the melting of the materials has started.
  • FIG. 3 In the installation of FIG. 3, there are successively three superimposed containers, namely a hopper 9 for supplying a powder mixture containing the various constituent compounds of the materials to be prepared, said powder continuously pouring out through a chute 10 into the actual induction furnace 11 which is produced according to the design described in FIG. 1 above.
  • a hopper 9 for supplying a powder mixture containing the various constituent compounds of the materials to be prepared, said powder continuously pouring out through a chute 10 into the actual induction furnace 11 which is produced according to the design described in FIG. 1 above.
  • the molten enamels contained in the furnace 11 are removed from the surface 12 for separation of the liquid phase using a chute 13 which may itself be cooled, which passes through the coil 2 of the furnace 11.
  • the molten enamels then flow through the chute 13 in a conventional manner to a water tank 14 to undergo the quenching necessary for their cooling and desired shaping.
  • the furnace feed rate for this mixture was 40 kg per hour.
  • the power used was 50 kW, the frequency 350 kHz and the processing temperature 1450 ° C.
  • This process can also be applied to the production of ultra-pure products with very high melting points; this object can only be achieved if the autocreuset is formed from the material to be melted and not from a layer of material of a different chemical nature.

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1. Hochfrequenzinduktionsschmelzofen, dessen Wand gleichzeitig den Induktor und den kalten Tiegel zum Halten der geschmolzenen Produkte bildet, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß seine zylindrische Wand (1) längs einer allgemein schraubenlinienförmigen Linie (14) durchgetrennt ist, wodurch somit eine einzige, flache Windung mit mehreren Umläufen gebildet wird, die die Selbstinduktion des Schwingungskreises des aperiodischen Hochfrequenzgenerators (15) bildet, wobei das schmelzende Material elektromagnetisch mit dieser Windung gekoppelt ist.
2. Verfahren zum Vorbereiten von keramischen Materialien durch Hochfrequenzinduktionsschmelzen in einem Ofen, auf dessen Wänden sich eine isolierende Kruste oder ein selbstbildender Schmelztiegel bildet, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß man den elektrischen Hochfrequenzofen (1) vom aperiodischen Typ, dessen einzige, flache Windung gleichzeitig als Induktorsystem und als kalter Tiegel dient, beim ersten Beladen mit einem Material, welches man vorübergehend durch eine zylindrische Wand (6) abtrennt, dieses nämlich zwischen diese Wand und diejenige des Ofens füllt, wobei dieses Material den selbstildenden Schmelztiegel bilden wird, und im Inneren der zylindrischen Wand mit einem anderen Material füllt, welches geschmolzen wird.
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