EP0248727B1 - Hochfrequenz-Induktionsofen - Google Patents

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EP0248727B1
EP0248727B1 EP87401230A EP87401230A EP0248727B1 EP 0248727 B1 EP0248727 B1 EP 0248727B1 EP 87401230 A EP87401230 A EP 87401230A EP 87401230 A EP87401230 A EP 87401230A EP 0248727 B1 EP0248727 B1 EP 0248727B1
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René Perrier De la Bathie
Jacques Terrier
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
    • H05B6/02—Induction heating
    • H05B6/22—Furnaces without an endless core
    • H05B6/24—Crucible furnaces
    • H05B6/28—Protective systems
    • 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
    • F27B14/00—Crucible or pot furnaces
    • F27B14/06—Crucible or pot furnaces heated electrically, e.g. induction crucible furnaces with or without any other source of heat
    • F27B14/061—Induction furnaces
    • 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
    • F27B14/00—Crucible or pot furnaces
    • F27B14/08—Details peculiar to crucible or pot furnaces
    • F27B14/10—Crucibles
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
    • H05B6/02—Induction heating
    • H05B6/22—Furnaces without an endless core
    • 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
    • F27B14/00—Crucible or pot furnaces
    • F27B14/08—Details peculiar to crucible or pot furnaces
    • F27B2014/0837—Cooling arrangements

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  • the present invention relates to a melting furnace by electromagnetic induction by circulation of high frequency alternating current, usable in particular for the melting and transformation of refractory materials such as ceramic oxides, glass and chemical salts.
  • the principle of the induction furnace consists in passing an inductor through an alternating current; a magnetic field is then created inside this inductor where the charge is liquefied. Induced currents are then generated, which circulate inside this load and are converted into heat energy by the Joule effect provided that the resistivity of the load is less than a value depending on the diameter of this load and the frequency considered.
  • refractory materials can be considered as insulating at ambient temperature, but their resistivity decreases beyond a temperature here called inducibility. In this case it is necessary to provide a heating means to ensure the initiation of the induction phenomenon.
  • the furnace can operate in continuous casting provided that it has suitable filling and emptying means.
  • the present invention provides an improvement on existing solutions insofar as it combines the simplest design: monospire oven in self-crucible, with a device making it possible to guard against the risks of arcing which constitute the major problem of monospire.
  • the subject of the present invention is a melting furnace for induction refractory materials, the electrically conductive wall of which consists of a single cylindrical turn, the ends of which are connected to a source of high frequency alternating current, said turn forming both the inductor and the crucible proper and comprising means for cooling its surface, this furnace being characterized in that it comprises at least one cooled piece of elongated shape made of electrically conductive material, disposed along the slot delimited by the ends of the turn, maintained at a floating potential and electrically isolated from said turn.
  • the elongated piece which constitutes the essential means of the invention, thus fulfills a double function.
  • the space between the cooled part and the ends of the coil is filled with an electrical insulator which must withstand maximum temperatures of approximately 200 ° C and can therefore be made of paper, plaster, epoxy resin or refractory cement in thin layer.
  • the bottom of the crucible is made of a conductive material.
  • the coil is then electrically isolated from the bottom of the crucible by a refractory electrical insulator.
  • the conductive material constituting the bottom of the crucible is of the same nature as that of the coil.
  • the bottom of the crucible is made of an insulating material.
  • the lower part of the turn, adjacent to the bottom of the crucible is notched.
  • This arrangement in the case of a conductive crucible bottom allows, according to the invention, not to disturb the electromagnetic field in the lower part of the crucible by greatly reducing the coupling between the monospire and the bottom of the crucible.
  • This arrangement in the case of an insulating crucible bottom, makes it possible to limit the field of induction in the charge and thus prohibit fusion on contact with the refractory bottom.
  • the oven therefore generally comprises a turn 1 constituted, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, of a curved sheet of an electrically conductive metal such as copper or aluminum, at the ends 2 from which an electrical circuit 3 introduces the alternating electrical current necessary for operation.
  • a turn 1 constituted, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, of a curved sheet of an electrically conductive metal such as copper or aluminum, at the ends 2 from which an electrical circuit 3 introduces the alternating electrical current necessary for operation.
  • At least one elongated piece 5 of electrically conductive material maintained at a floating potential and electrically isolated from the coil 1 by a space which can optionally be filled with an insulator 6 disposed between the part 5 and the ends of the coil 1.
  • the part 5 is unique and makes it possible to halve the value of the tension between the two ends of the turn.
  • Each part 5 is subject to the action of the electromagnetic field and therefore traversed by induced heat-generating currents. It therefore essentially consists of a hollow envelope 7 inside which circulates a cooling fluid.
  • FIG. 2 indicates a possible configuration, according to which a metal tube 8 is introduced inside the envelope 7: the fluid enters through the metal tube 8 and rises along the envelope 7.
  • the insulator 6, which also seals the crucible, must withstand maximum temperatures of around 200 ° C. since the part 5 is cooled. It can be made of paper, plaster or epoxy resin or refractory cement in a thin layer for example.
  • the bottom 9 of the crucible can be, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, made of refractory material.
  • the device shown in Figure 4, ensuring the emptying of the liquefied product then consists essentially of a cooled copper tube 18 by a few windings of a smaller copper tube 20 in which circulates a cooling fluid, the whole being embedded in the refractory material constituting the bottom 9 and closed by a plug 22 of copper itself cooled.
  • the bottom 9 can also be made, as is the case in FIG. 1, of the same conductive material as the turn 1, the emptying device then being limited to a hole bored in the bottom and closed by a cooled copper plug, as for the embodiment described in the previous paragraph. It is then necessary to provide electrical insulation between the bottom and the coil and to avoid an excessive modification of the lines of the electromagnetic field; this is why an insulating and refractory joint 10 separates the bottom and the turn, and moreover the part of the turn adjacent to the bottom is notched, which removes the part of the electromagnetic field which would have undergone coupling due to the presence of the bottom .
  • These notches 11 formed in the turn are sealed by an electrical insulator which seals the crucible. They are generally arranged periodically and their length is of the order of a tenth of the height of the turn.
  • the cooling of the walls of the crucible is carried out by means of small copper tubes 12 which are the seat of a forced circulation of fluid brought in and collected after use by two collectors 13 and 14 of larger diameters.
  • the tubes 12 are generally circumferential. Only the cutouts 15 limited by the notches are cooled by circulation of fluid in bent tubes 16 winding along the cutouts.
  • This oven can be adapted to continuous operation, the solid material being able to be introduced continuously and discharged in the form of liquid by overflowing using a chute not shown here fixed in the upper part of the coil, as is described in French patent application FR-A 2,540,982.
  • the advantage of the invention consists in that the part (s) 5 allow (s) to operate with a higher voltage current without fear of the formation of an electric arc between the ends of the coil 1 : this voltage can be doubled in the case of an oven comprising only one of these parts. It is then possible to work with a turn of diameter twice as large, making it possible to process products with higher resistivity, which implies a heat exchange surface four times greater.
  • the inductance and resistance of an inductor and therefore its impedance are proportional to the square of the number of turns.
  • the material brought to the melting point is a borosilicate glass of the VR15F type sold by HPC.
  • the loading of raw powder is made continuously on the surface and the evacuation of the molten glass takes place by overflow through a chute formed in the upper part of the inductor.
  • Table 1 presents the main characteristics and the results of two tests carried out using a single-coil inductor with a diameter of 400 mm or 600 mm. For comparison, characteristics and results of a test carried out using an inductor two turns (diameter 300 mm) of the prior art, are given in the first column of this table.

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1. Induktionsschmelzofen für hochschmelzende Materialien, dessen elektrisch leitfähige Wand aus einer einzigen zylinderförmigen Windung (1) besteht, deren Enden (2) mit einer Hochfrequenz-Wechselstromquelle (3) verbunden sind, wobei die Windung zugleich den Induktor und den eigentlichen Schmelztiegel bildet und eine Abkühlvorrichtung (12) für ihre Oberfläche aufweist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er wenigstens ein abgekühltes Teil länglicher Form aus einem elektrisch leitfähigen Material (5) aufweist, das entlang der Spalte (4) angeordnet ist, die von den beiden Enden (2) der Wicklung (1) begrenzt wird, und das auf einem erdfreien Potential gehalten wird und elektrisch von der Wicklung isoliert ist.
2. Schmelzofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Raum zwischen dem abgekühlten Teil (5) und den Enden der Wicklung (1) mit einem Isolator aufgefüllt ist.
3. Schmelzofen nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Boden (9) des Schmelztiegels aus einem leitfähigen Material besteht.
4. Schmelzofen nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das leitfähige Material, das den Boden (9) des Schmelztiegels bildet dergleichen Art wie das der Wicklung (1) ist.
5. Schmelzofen nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Boden (9) des Schmelztiegels aus einem isolierenden Material besteht.
6. Schmelzofen nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der untere Teil der Wicklung, der an den Boden des Schmelztiegels angrenzt, eingekerbt ist.
7. Schmelzofen nach einem der Ansprüche 3 und 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der leitfähige Boden (9) und die Wicklung (1) durch einen hochschmelzenden elektrischen Isolator (10) getrennt sind.
8. Schmelzofen nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die in der Wicklung ausgeführten Einkerbungen (11) mit einem hochschmelzenden elektrischen Isolator aufgefüllt sind.
9. Schmelzofen nach einem der Ansprüche 6 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß von den Einkerbungen begrenzten Abschnitte (15) durch den Durchfluß einer Flüssigkeit durch abgewinkelte Röhren (16), die sich an den Abschnitten entlang schlängeln, gekühlt werden.
10. Schmelzofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das erdfrei gehaltene Teil (5) im wesentlichen aus einer hohlen Umhüllung (7) besteht, in deren Inneren eine Kühlflüssigkeit zirkuliert.
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