EP0156147A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour le recuit de pièces métalliques - Google Patents

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EP0156147A1
EP0156147A1 EP85101547A EP85101547A EP0156147A1 EP 0156147 A1 EP0156147 A1 EP 0156147A1 EP 85101547 A EP85101547 A EP 85101547A EP 85101547 A EP85101547 A EP 85101547A EP 0156147 A1 EP0156147 A1 EP 0156147A1
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Reinhard Dipl.-Ing. Strigl
Hubert Dipl.-Ing. Majerus
Thomas Dipl.-Ing. Mahlo
Alexander Jurmann
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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
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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
    • C21D1/76—Adjusting the composition of the atmosphere
    • 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
    • C21D9/663—Bell-type furnaces
    • C21D9/667—Multi-station furnaces
    • C21D9/67—Multi-station furnaces adapted for treating the charge in vacuum or special atmosphere

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for annealing metal parts under protective gas in a furnace, into which the protective gas is temporarily introduced at a maximum volume flow.
  • shielding gas supply for the annealing of metal parts, which differ among other things by the start and duration of the shielding gas supply and by the shielding gas quantity and shielding gas type.
  • the purpose of pre-rinsing before the start of glow is to displace the oxygen and to avoid the risk of explosion.
  • the maximum amount of protective gas is also flushed. This process step common to all annealing processes.
  • the maximum amount of protective gas is also flushed.
  • the protective gas outlet is closed. During the entire cooling process, i.e. until the end of the annealing process, only the amount of shielding gas that is required to cover the leakage losses is fed to the furnace.
  • Shielding gas consumption causes costs that are a significant part of the annealing costs. To reduce the annealing costs, the lowest possible shielding gas consumption is therefore sought. However, economical shielding gas consumption must not cause smoldering edges or lower tape cleanliness.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a method of the type described at the outset in which the protective gas consumption is lower than conventional methods without impairing the quality of the annealed metal parts.
  • This object is achieved in that the protective gas is supplied to the furnace during the heating phase only at a maximum volume flow within a period in which the opacity of the furnace atmosphere is greater than that of the furnace atmosphere at ambient temperature.
  • the method according to the invention is based on the knowledge reasons that the furnace does not have to be constantly flushed with the maximum flow of protective gas during the heating phase. Rather, the furnace can be supplied with a significantly lower volume flow than the maximum protective gas volume flow at certain time intervals during the heating phase, without the quality of the annealed metal parts suffering.
  • the periods in which protective gas with a maximum volume flow or with a low volume flow is to be supplied to the oven are determined by the value of the opacity of the furnace atmosphere.
  • the opacity of the furnace atmosphere is to be understood here as the light absorption capacity of this atmosphere.
  • the opacity depends on the foreign dirt that is present in the furnace atmosphere, on the carbon content in the furnace and on the emulsion evaporation rate. It was found that the opacity - starting from a value of the opacity of the furnace atmosphere at ambient temperature, the ambient value - changes only slightly immediately after the start of the heating phase. After a certain time of, for example, about 2 hours, the opacity of the furnace atmosphere increases sharply, however, after reaching a maximum, it drops back to the ambient value. This value is reached, for example, within 13 to 18 hours (depending on the furnace and batch size).
  • protective gas with a maximum volume flow is supplied to the furnace in the heating phase only when the opacity exceeds the setpoint value.
  • a smaller volume flow than the maximum volume flow is sufficient for flushing an annealing furnace.
  • the smaller volume flow lies in a range between the amount of shielding gas covering the leak rate of the respective furnace and about 2 to 5 times the amount of leak rate.
  • the volume flow of the protective gas is consequently adapted to the time course of the opacity of the furnace atmosphere.
  • at least one volume flow covering the leak rate is fed to the furnace.
  • flushing takes place with a higher volume flow up to the maximum protective gas volume flow.
  • shielding gas savings of up to 70% compared to conventional methods could be achieved in bright and recrystallization annealing of cold-rolled steel sheet in the heating phase.
  • Based on the entire annealing process is an inert gas injection arung p - depending on the leak rate of the furnace jeweiliaen - between 25 and 50%.
  • increased tape cleanliness was found.
  • the method according to the invention thus makes it possible to reduce annealing costs.
  • the quality of the products produced by the proposed method is improved.
  • the saving of protective gas that can be achieved with the method according to the invention presumably has the following causes: In the first hours (1.5 to 2.5 hours) after the start of annealing, the emulsion evaporation rate is very low, since the temperature in the furnace is low. During this time, an amount of shielding gas per unit of time that is well below the maximum shielding gas rate is sufficient. It was found that the opacity drops back to the ambient value within a certain period of time after the start of annealing. The period is independent of the thickness and the roughness of the metal parts to be annealed (steel strips) and also independent of whether the metal parts (e.g. steel strips after rolling) have been stored for a long time or have been brought directly into the furnace. The period with large opacity values ends at the latest 17 hours after the start of glow. From this point on, a lower amount of protective gas per unit of time is sufficient to purge the furnace.
  • the protective gas is fed into the furnace with a maximum volume flow only within a period in which the opacity of the furnace atmosphere is greater than the opacity of the protective gas supplied to the furnace by 2% and more, preferably by 5% and more. In practice, this procedure has proven to be completely sufficient.
  • the protective gas consists of nitrogen and small amounts of a reducing additional gas, e.g. Hydrogen.
  • a flushing gas mixture of this type it is not necessary to flush a furnace before the actual annealing. Rinsing can rather begin with the annealing process, since the oxygen content in the atmosphere quickly drops from 21% by volume to below 0.5% by volume and the temperature of the retort rises only very slowly and there is therefore no risk of explosion.
  • the protective gas consumption can be reduced again by this measure.
  • the opacity of the furnace atmosphere is measured continuously, the measured value is compared with a target value and the furnace shielding gas is automatically at maximum Volume flow supplied as long as the O p aztician the furnace atmosphere lies above the set point.
  • the target value which is approximately the same as the ambient value or the value specified in claim 2
  • protective gas with a maximum volume flow is passed immediately. The maximum flow is lowered again only on a smaller volume flow when the O aztician p is less than its a g e-set target value.
  • the second variant enables an even better adaptation of the required shielding gas supply to the opacity of the furnace atmosphere and thus minimal shielding gas consumption.
  • the opacity of the furnace atmosphere is measured continuously and, on the basis of a comparison of the measurement signal with the setpoint, a control command for increasing or throttling the shielding gas supply is given in order to adjust the measured opacity value to the setpoint.
  • the protective gas volume flow is gradually increased with increasing opacity after the setpoint is exceeded. As soon as the opacity of the furnace atmosphere drops again, the shielding gas supply is also reduced.
  • the volume flow is increased to maximum volume flow about 1 to 3 hours after the start of annealing and is reduced again when a batch temperature of 450 ° C. to 500 ° C. is reached.
  • the shielding gas is fed to the furnace with maximum volume flow depending on the time.
  • the volume flow is clearly determined by a schedule.
  • the schedule is saved in a schedule provider and the entered program is processed after the start.
  • a switch is made to the maximum protective gas volume flow.
  • the system switches back to a smaller volume flow. In this variant there is no direct feedback between the opacity of the furnace atmosphere and that per unit of time
  • the amount of protective gas supplied is present, however, the outlay on equipment is low in this variant. The associated costs are minimal.
  • a device suitable for carrying out the method essentially consists of an annealing furnace into which a supply line and an exhaust gas line open, and is characterized by an opacity probe connected to a control unit and exposed to the atmosphere formed in the furnace, as well as by a supply line connected in parallel Bypass line with a valve connected to the control unit.
  • the furnace Via the supply line, the furnace can be supplied with the basic volumetric flow, which serves to cover the leak rate and supplies the shielding gas quantities that are required to flush the furnace, as long as the opacity of the external atmosphere is below the ambient value.
  • the control unit opens the valve in the bypass line.
  • the base volume electricity is therefore supplemented by an additional volume flow.
  • particle counters or a probe that works according to the photoelectric principle are suitable as the opacity probe.
  • the valve in the bypass line is a solenoid valve. This is opened and closed by the control unit depending on the current opacity value of the furnace atmosphere.
  • the protective gas volume flow can be continuously adapted to the current opacity value.
  • the valve in the bypass line is an engine valve.
  • a trouble-free measurement of the opacity is possible if the opacity probe is arranged in the drain line.
  • the Schut gas supply can not only be controlled automatically, but controlled according to a particularly inexpensive variant of a device according to the invention.
  • a valve is arranged in a bypass line, which is connected in parallel with the supply line to the furnace, the switching state of which is determined by a schedule planner.
  • an opacity probe 2 is arranged in the exhaust gas line, in which the absorption capacity, that is to say the opacity of the furnace atmosphere, is measured and a measurement signal is formed.
  • the measurement signal is passed to a control unit 3.
  • control unit 3 is connected to an engine valve 13 in the bypass line 18.
  • cold-rolled steel strips in the furnace 1 are to be blarked or Recrystallization annealing are treated.
  • three steel strips wound into a coil are placed on the base of furnace 1 and a retort is lowered over the coils.
  • a seal between the retort and base prevents excessive leak rates.
  • the method according to the invention starts with rinsing the retort and started heating up.
  • a protective gas consisting of nitrogen, to which, for example, 2.5% by volume of hydrogen is added, is passed via line 5 through the opened valves 8 and 9 into the furnace 1.
  • Valve 13 is still closed.
  • the volume flow is set to approximately 10 m 3 / h with valve 11.
  • the protective gas flows through the furnace 1 in contact with the coil and leaves the furnace via the exhaust pipe 17 and via leaks in the furnace. Because of the leaks, it is important that the furnace is always supplied with a minimal amount of shielding gas, which covers the leakage losses through the base seal and - in older furnace models - the fan shaft bushing and thus protects the batch from oxidation.
  • the opacity probe 2 and control unit 3 are also switched on.
  • the opacity of the furnace exhaust gas at the beginning of the heating phase, the ambient value serves as the starting level for determining the setpoint of the opacity.
  • the opacity is determined, for example, on the basis of the weakening of a light beam that penetrates the furnace atmosphere.
  • a setpoint is set in the control unit, which is approximately 2% above the ambient value.
  • opacity probe 2 If the opacity of the furnace exhaust gas increases in the course of the heating phase due to evaporating rolling oil emulsion, this increase is detected by the opacity probe 2.
  • a control signal is sent to the engine valve 13 via a transducer and control unit 3 when the setpoint is exceeded. With increasing opacity, the engine valve is opened further and further until a maximum volume flow of, for example, 20 m 3 / h is reached. Engine valve is a capacity-decreasing O p always closed further 13 until the opacity below the set value decreases. From this point onwards, only with the Line 5 flowing base volume flow flushed.
  • the embodiment according to FIG. 2 differs from that of FIG. 1 in that a magnetic valve 14 and a regulating valve 12 are arranged in the bypass line 18 instead of a motor valve.
  • control unit 3 opens solenoid valve 14 so that the volume flow set with control valve 12 flows through bypass line 18 and is mixed into the base volume flow.
  • shielding gas with a maximum volume flow (for example 20 m3 / h) is supplied to the furnace as long as the opacity is above the selected setpoint.
  • only the basic volume flow eg 10 m 3 / h is passed into the furnace.
  • FIG. 3 An embodiment of the invention which is very favorable in terms of investment costs is shown in FIG. 3: A solenoid valve 15 is controlled by a timing relay 16.
  • the switching state of the relay 16 is determined by a schedule, which is based on the knowledge of the opacity process, which was determined in previous annealing processes of the same batches.
  • Valve 15 is closed, for example, for two hours after the start of glow, then open for 15 hours and then closed for 55 hours.

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