EP1646734B1 - Vorrichtung zur schmelztauchbeschichtung eines metallstranges - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur schmelztauchbeschichtung eines metallstranges Download PDF

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EP1646734B1
EP1646734B1 EP04739945A EP04739945A EP1646734B1 EP 1646734 B1 EP1646734 B1 EP 1646734B1 EP 04739945 A EP04739945 A EP 04739945A EP 04739945 A EP04739945 A EP 04739945A EP 1646734 B1 EP1646734 B1 EP 1646734B1
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Holger Behrens
Rolf Brisbeger
Hans Georg Hartung
Bernhard Tenckhoff
Walter Trakowski
Michael Zielenbach
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
    • C23C2/00—Hot-dipping or immersion processes for applying the coating material in the molten state without affecting the shape; Apparatus therefor
    • C23C2/14—Removing excess of molten coatings; Controlling or regulating the coating thickness
    • C23C2/24—Removing excess of molten coatings; Controlling or regulating the coating thickness using magnetic or electric fields

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  • the invention relates to a device for hot dip coating of a metal strand, in particular a steel strip, in which the metal strand is passed vertically through a container receiving the molten coating metal and through an upstream guide channel, with at least two on both sides of the metal strand in the region of the guide channel arranged inductors for generating an electromagnetic Field for retaining the coating metal in the container.
  • the belts are introduced from above into the dip-coating bath in a plunger.
  • the coating metal is in liquid form, and one would like to use gravity together with blowers ("air knives") to adjust the coating thickness
  • the subsequent processes touch the belt to the complete make-up metal prohibit the tape in the coating vessel in the vertical direction must be deflected. This happens with a roller that runs in liquid metal. Due to the liquid coating metal, this roller is subject to heavy wear and is the cause of downtimes and thus failures in production.
  • Such a solution is for example from the EP 0 673 444 B1 and from the EP 0 659 897 A1 known.
  • An electromagnetic closure for sealing the coating vessel down is also the solution according to the WO 96/03533 or the one according to the JP 5086446 one.
  • the electromagnetic closure used in the above-discussed solutions for sealing the guide channel thus constitutes a magnetic pump which retains the coating metal in the coating container.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a device for hot dip coating a metal strand of the type mentioned, with which it is possible to overcome the aforementioned disadvantage. It should therefore be ensured that the immersion bath remains quiet when using an electromagnetic shutter, whereby the quality of the coating should be increased.
  • the solution of this object by the invention is characterized in that the distance between the guide channel limiting walls in the direction normal to the surface of the metal strand in the region of the vertical extent of the guide channel between the bottom and the bottom portion of the container is not formed constant, wherein the guide channel delimiting walls have a constriction or an extension.
  • the effective width of the guide channel changes over its height extent, wherein the height of the channel to be considered between the channel bottom and the container bottom is relevant. Due to the intended cross-sectional change of the guide channel, a zone is to be created within the height extent of the channel, in which a calming of the flow in the coating metal can take place, whereby it is desirable that this also calms the bath surface.
  • the constriction or the extension may have the shape of a circle section in cross-section substantially.
  • a further flow calming can be achieved if it is provided according to a development that at least one flow-guiding element is arranged in the container and / or in the guide channel.
  • the flow-guiding element is advantageously designed as a flat, narrow plate whose longitudinal axis extends perpendicularly in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the metal strand and perpendicular to the direction normal to the surface of the metal strand.
  • the at least one flow-guiding element can be arranged in the guide channel in the region of the extension.
  • a further calming of the bath surface can be achieved if, according to a further development, it is provided that at least one bath soak plate is arranged in the container in the area of the surface of the coating metal. This is located on the bath surface or is located at a low height above the bath.
  • the position of the bath calming plate can be adjustable in height by means of an actuator.
  • the bath soak plate is preferably made of ceramic material.
  • the surface of the metal bath remains relatively quiet despite the use of the electromagnetic shutter, so as to ensure that a high quality of the dip coating can be achieved.
  • the device shown in the figures has a container 3 which is filled with molten coating metal 2.
  • molten coating metal 2 This may be, for example, zinc or aluminum.
  • To be coated metal strand 1 in the form of a steel strip passes through the container 3 in the conveying direction R vertically upwards. It should be noted at this point that it is also possible in principle that the metal strand 1, the container 3 passes from top to bottom.
  • this is open in the bottom area;
  • This is an exaggeratedly large or wide guide channel shown 4.
  • This has an area H of the vertical extent. It should be noted that this area H is calculated from the bottom portion 8 of the container 3 to the bottom 7 of the guide channel 4 and represents that area which provides an opening gap for the passage of the metal strand 1.
  • the molten coating metal 2 can not flow down through the guide channel 4, located on both sides of the metal strand 1, two electromagnetic inductors 5, which generate a magnetic field, which counteracts the gravitational force of the coating metal 2 and thus seals the guide channel 4 downwards.
  • the inductors 5 are two oppositely disposed alternating field or traveling field inductors, which are operated in the frequency range from 2 Hz to 10 kHz and establish an electromagnetic transverse field perpendicular to the conveying direction R.
  • the preferred frequency range for single-phase Systems is between 2 kHz and 10 kHz, for multi-phase systems (eg traveling field inductors) between 2 Hz and 2 kHz.
  • the magnetic field of the inductors 5 can be amplified or attenuated depending on the control (superposition principle of the magnetic fields). In this way, the position of the metal strand 1 in the guide channel 4 can be influenced.
  • the distance d of the guide channel 4 bounding walls 6 in the direction N normal to the surface of the metal strand 1 in the H range of height of the guide channel 4 between the bottom 7 and the bottom portion 8 of the container 3 is not formed constant.
  • a funnel-shaped portion 9 connects, the funnel 9 with its broad side adjacent to the bottom portion 8 of the container 3.
  • the distance d of the guide channel 4 bounding walls 6 reduces to the value reached below the funnel-shaped portion 9 and then kept constant downwards.
  • the illustrated in Fig. 1 embodiment of the guide channel 4 with funnel-shaped portion 9 is a measure that is geared to the fact that coming from the guide channel 4 flow in the coating metal 2 is directed so that there are no Badaufwallungen on the bath surface. Furthermore, it is possible by means of a suitable measure to limit the turbulence in the flow, which is caused by the inductors 5 in the coating metal, locally to the region of the guide channel 4.
  • the provision of the funnel-shaped portion 9 represents a first significant effect with which the flow in the coating metal 2 in the region of the guide channel 4 can be directed.
  • the Badaufwallungen be reduced to the surface of the metal bath, because of the proposed geometry of the directed upward in the guide channel 4 flow space to dodge into the volume of the container 3 is given. As a result, the local turbulence is reduced or collected.
  • Another measure for the flow control is the circulation of Badberuh Whilesplatten 16, for example of ceramic material, on the surface 15 of the coating bath.
  • the Badberuh Whilesplatten 16 are held on the surface 15 of the coating metal 2 or positioned near the surface.
  • the turbulence which may have penetrated to the bath surface, deflected in the horizontal direction, so that Badaufwall urge can be prevented.
  • flow guide elements 12, 12 ', 12 ", 13, 13' as guide plates or guide vanes - into the liquid coating metal 2.
  • the inductors 5 generate a turbulent flow, in particular in the guide channel 4, due to their pumping action.
  • As a measure to suppress flushing on the bath surface is possible by changing the geometry of the guide channel 4 space to evade the turbulence already in the region of the guide channel 4 to create or hinder the spread of turbulence in the container 3 by weirs and so the turbulence on the Limiting area of the guide channel 4.
  • a constriction 10 is provided, which is a kind of web or weir and preferably located directly below the bottom portion 8 of the container 3 (has proven particularly useful the area between the - not shown - channel flange and the container bottom).
  • the delimiting walls 6 in the region of the constriction 10 have the shape of the section of a circle in cross-section. As a result, a certain flow calming is achieved.
  • Fig. 3 a further alternative embodiment is illustrated.
  • an extension 11 is arranged, in the present case above the height range over which the inductors 5 extend (which is also advantageous in the case of the embodiment according to FIG. 2).
  • the extension 11 is in some way a compensating volume between the guide channel 4 and the bottom portion 8 of the container 3. This ensures that the turbulence in the guide channel can expand and calm before reaching the container 3 and thus no longer the flow conditions in the container 3 tangent. It is thus achieved that the flow in the guide channel 4 no longer continues in the overlying container 3, but the coating metal 2 again reaches the lower region of the guide channel 4, in which prevail the turbulence.
  • the geometric configuration of the extension 11 corresponds, as stated above in connection with FIG. 2, to the fluidic requirements in the area between the guide channel 4 and the container 3.
  • FIG. 3 Another measure for local limitation of the flows to the region of the guide channel 4 is likewise illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • flow guidance elements 13 and 13 ' are arranged, which functionally correspond to the flow guidance elements 12, 12', 12 "described above. Turbulences can be deflected downwards again underneath the underside 7 of the guide channel 4 and the bottom area 8 of the container 3.
  • the flow guide elements 13, 13 ' support the desired formation of the flow conditions in the region of the extension 11 and result in a reduction of turbulence.

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