US3522936A - Fluidized bed for heat-treating purposes - Google Patents
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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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- 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
- C21D9/56—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire
- C21D9/573—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire with cooling
- C21D9/5732—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire with cooling of wires; of rods
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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
- 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
- C21D9/56—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire
- C21D9/567—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire with heating in fluidised beds
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- G21C19/00—Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel
- G21C19/14—Arrangements for treating, for handling, or for facilitating the handling of, fuel or other materials which are used within the reactor, e.g. within its pressure vessel characterised by their adaptation for use with horizontal channels in the reactor core
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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- Y—GENERAL 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
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- FLUIDIZED BED FOR HEAT-TREATING PURPOSES Filed Feb. 12, 1968 EECUNOI 7' ONING' CHAMEEQ United States Patent 3,522,936 FLUIDIZED BED FOR HEAT-TREATING PURPOSES Hans Geipel, Oberhausen-Sterkrade, Eckenhard Forster,
- coils of steel wire to be subjected to controlled cooling are placed on an apertured conveyor passing through a tunnel into which solid ceramic particles entrained by a stream of carrier gas are admitted through a perforated base below the conveyor, the particles enveloping the conveyed goods and being then recirculated through a heating or cooling chamber restoring their original temperature.
- the gas is blown in at a relatively high rate throughout a central portion of the base and at a sharply throttled rate near the ends whereby the particles accumulate in a stepped pile; the inlet and outlet ports for the conveyor are disposed at a level above the top of the lower end portions but below the top of the higher middle portion of that pile so that the goods traverse only this middle portion.
- Our present invention relates to a fluidized bed for the heat treatment of workpieces, particularly but not exclusively for the cooling of steel wire which is to be patented (i.e. cooled at a controlled rate) for transformation from its austenitic state to a sorbitic pearlite structure as more fully disclosed in our commonly owned application Ser. No. 675,522 filed Oct. 16, 1967.
- the term fluidized bed denotes a mass of solid particles, such as ceramic granules, entrained by a current of 9. preferably inert carrier gas.
- the particles which should have an elevated heat-transfer coeflicient, serve as the principal constituent of the heating or cooling medium whereas the carrier gas plays only a minor role in the maintenance of the desired discharge temperature.
- This gas is also used as a vehicle for a continuous recirculation of the particles through a heat-treating tunnel and through an external reconditioning chamber where the particles are reheated or recoded to re-establish their original treatment temperature.
- the general object of our present invention is to provide alternative means, without the use of additional moving parts, for avoiding substantial leakage of such particles from the heat-treating tunnel while allowing ex- 3,522,936 Patented Aug. 4, 1970 act predetermination of the contact time between the particles and the goods.
- a more specific object of this invention is to provide means in such system for concentrating the treatment particles in a pile of well-defined and substantially stationary outline spaced from at least the outlet port and preferably also from the inlet port of the tunnel.
- our invention further aims at providing means for allowing the conveyor to pass approximately horizontally through a fluidized bed with substantially vertical boundaries spaced from the inlet and outlet ports of the tunnel.
- a circulation system for the treatment agent which causes the gas stream to pass upwardly through the tunnel from a perforated base underneath the conveyor, the system including pneumatic control means for concentrating the gas flow in a region of the tunnel spaced from the outlet port and preferably also from the inlet port.
- the pneumatic control means may take the form of one or more valves for sharply throttling the flow rate near the exit end (and advantageously also near the entrance end) of the tunnel so that the bulk of the particles accumulates in a pile rising from the base above the conveyor level throughout an area which extends over the major part of the length of the conveyor inside the tunnel but stops short of its outlet port and preferably also of its inlet port.
- the pile may rise at its center to about twice the distance of the conveyor from the base and at the end to roughly 30% of this height so as to leave an appreciable clearance between the top of the pile and the conveyor in the vicinity of the ports.
- the spacing of the particle accumulation from the entrance end of the tunnel will be particularly desirable where the goods are deposited on the conveyor before the latter enters the tunnel.
- the system shown in the drawing comprises an apertured conveyor 4, in the form of an endless belt such as a wire netting or a set of parallel wires, mounted on a pair of rollers 14', 14" which are driven by a motor not shown to advance the conveyor in the direction indicated by arrow A, i.e. with its upper run moving from right to left.
- This upper run traverses an elongated tunnel 3 having an inlet port 5 and an exit port 6 at approximately the same level.
- a perforated base 15 within tunnel 3, disposed underneath the upper conveyor run, is spaced from the tunnelbottom to define therewith a manifold for the circulation of a treatment agent of the aforedescribed character, i.e. a stream of gas entraining a mass of solid particles 2 (e.g.
- Circulation is effected by means of a blower 16 in a conduit 17 which also includes a reconditioning chamber 18, i.e. a cooling chamber if the goods to be treated are coils of steel wire to be patented. These coils, indicated at 1, are deposited on the conveyor 4 at a location 19 upstream from tunnel 3, advantageously with the aid of a transversely oscillating dispenser as disclosed and claimed in our commonly owned copending application Ser. No. 675,405 filed Oct. 16, 1967.
- Conduit 17 communicates by way of respective branches 17a, 17b, 170 with sections 9, 10, 11 of the manifold bounded by base 15, these sections being formed by a pair of transverse partitions 7 and 8.
- the main manifold section underlies a central portion of base extending over the greater part of the length of the tunnel; the two terminal sections 9 and 10 underlie relatively short portions of the base in the region of the outlet 6 and the inlet 5, respectively.
- gas and solid particles 2 are exhausted from tunnel 3 and returned to chamber 18 via a duct having branches 20a, 20b, 200.
- the branches 17a, 17b, 170 are provided with respective valves 21a, 21b, 216 so adjusted that the flow rate through manifold sections 9 and 11 is sharply throttled in comparison with the rate of flow through central section 10. Further flow control may be achieved with the aid of valves 22a, 22b, 22c in branches 20a, 20b, 20c, respectively.
- the bulk of the particles 2 accumulates above manifold section 10 on base 15 in a pile having a substantially uniform depth d, the pile being sharply stepped at 12 and 13 (Le. above partitions 7 and 8) down to a height which is well below the level of the goods 1 and which may be equal to approximately 0.3d while the elevation of the conveyor above base 15 is about 0.5d.
- the ports 5 and 6 thus located above the pile surface, few if any particles 2 will leave the tunnel by either port.
- the residence time of the goods in the pile of particles 2 can be readily predetermined.
- the operating temperature of chamber 18 and/ or the speed of conveyor 4 may be varied in response to measurements of the temperature of the goods at the exit port 6 as described in our aforementioned copending application Ser. No. 675,522.
- a fluidized bed for the heat treatment of workpieces comprising an elongated tunnel with an inlet port and an outlet port disposed at opposite ends thereof and substantially at the same level;
- circulation means for blowing a treatment agent upwardly through said base into said tunnel and withdrawing said treatment agent from said tunnel for reconditioning, said treatment agent consisting of a gas stream with entrained solid particles;
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DEH61811A DE1281469B (de) | 1967-02-10 | 1967-02-10 | Vorrichtung fuer die Waermebehandlung von metallischem Gut, insbesondere Walzgut |
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DE (1) | DE1281469B (sv) |
FR (1) | FR1553254A (sv) |
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US3718024A (en) * | 1971-02-12 | 1973-02-27 | Morgan Construction Co | Apparatus including a fluidized bed for cooling steel rod through transformation |
US4044715A (en) * | 1974-09-17 | 1977-08-30 | Takeji Saitoi | Apparatus for manufacturing cushion materials |
US4065251A (en) * | 1976-08-03 | 1977-12-27 | Associated Electrical Industries Limited | Furnaces |
US4170494A (en) * | 1976-06-07 | 1979-10-09 | Kobe Steel, Ltd. | Surface treatment for metal according to fluidized bed system |
DE3623890A1 (de) * | 1985-07-15 | 1987-01-22 | Four Industriel Belge | Wirbelbettanlage |
US5131841A (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1992-07-21 | Patentsmith Ii, Inc. | Balanced air return convection oven |
US5207572A (en) * | 1989-07-26 | 1993-05-04 | Isover Saint-Gobain | Method and apparatus for the treatment and recovery of mineral fiber or glass waste |
US5423248A (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1995-06-13 | Patentsmith Corporation | Air circulator for impingement heat transfer apparatus |
US5871596A (en) * | 1997-04-08 | 1999-02-16 | Morgan Construction Company | Apparatus and method for cooling hot rolled steel rod |
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JPS5139511A (ja) * | 1974-10-01 | 1976-04-02 | Kobe Steel Ltd | Kosennoyakimodoshihoho |
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US2971242A (en) * | 1956-02-18 | 1961-02-14 | British Rayon Res Ass | Fluidised beds |
US2995773A (en) * | 1958-09-02 | 1961-08-15 | Pillsbury Co | Process and apparatus for agglomerating pulverulent materials |
US3355159A (en) * | 1962-05-23 | 1967-11-28 | British Aluminium Co Ltd | Apparatus for continuous heat treatment of sheet or strip material |
US3390871A (en) * | 1962-08-24 | 1968-07-02 | Morgan Construction Co | Apparatus for the controlled cooling of rods |
US3391915A (en) * | 1963-05-02 | 1968-07-09 | Davy & United Eng Co Ltd | Fluidized bed heat treatment apparatus |
US3445100A (en) * | 1964-11-27 | 1969-05-20 | Davy & United Eng Co Ltd | Fluidized bed apparatus for quenching hot rod |
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- 1968-01-22 FR FR1553254D patent/FR1553254A/fr not_active Expired
- 1968-01-25 AT AT76368A patent/AT274879B/de active
- 1968-01-31 NL NL6801391A patent/NL6801391A/xx unknown
- 1968-02-08 GB GB6380/68A patent/GB1177202A/en not_active Expired
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US2971242A (en) * | 1956-02-18 | 1961-02-14 | British Rayon Res Ass | Fluidised beds |
US2995773A (en) * | 1958-09-02 | 1961-08-15 | Pillsbury Co | Process and apparatus for agglomerating pulverulent materials |
US3355159A (en) * | 1962-05-23 | 1967-11-28 | British Aluminium Co Ltd | Apparatus for continuous heat treatment of sheet or strip material |
US3390871A (en) * | 1962-08-24 | 1968-07-02 | Morgan Construction Co | Apparatus for the controlled cooling of rods |
US3391915A (en) * | 1963-05-02 | 1968-07-09 | Davy & United Eng Co Ltd | Fluidized bed heat treatment apparatus |
US3445100A (en) * | 1964-11-27 | 1969-05-20 | Davy & United Eng Co Ltd | Fluidized bed apparatus for quenching hot rod |
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US3718024A (en) * | 1971-02-12 | 1973-02-27 | Morgan Construction Co | Apparatus including a fluidized bed for cooling steel rod through transformation |
US4044715A (en) * | 1974-09-17 | 1977-08-30 | Takeji Saitoi | Apparatus for manufacturing cushion materials |
US4170494A (en) * | 1976-06-07 | 1979-10-09 | Kobe Steel, Ltd. | Surface treatment for metal according to fluidized bed system |
US4065251A (en) * | 1976-08-03 | 1977-12-27 | Associated Electrical Industries Limited | Furnaces |
US4148600A (en) * | 1976-08-03 | 1979-04-10 | British Steel Corporation | Heat treatment furnace for metal strip |
DE3623890A1 (de) * | 1985-07-15 | 1987-01-22 | Four Industriel Belge | Wirbelbettanlage |
US5207572A (en) * | 1989-07-26 | 1993-05-04 | Isover Saint-Gobain | Method and apparatus for the treatment and recovery of mineral fiber or glass waste |
US5131841A (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1992-07-21 | Patentsmith Ii, Inc. | Balanced air return convection oven |
US5423248A (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1995-06-13 | Patentsmith Corporation | Air circulator for impingement heat transfer apparatus |
US5683240A (en) * | 1989-09-22 | 1997-11-04 | Patentsmith Technology, Ltd. | Balanced air return convection oven |
US5871596A (en) * | 1997-04-08 | 1999-02-16 | Morgan Construction Company | Apparatus and method for cooling hot rolled steel rod |
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NL6801391A (sv) | 1968-08-12 |
GB1177202A (en) | 1970-01-07 |
DE1281469B (de) | 1968-10-31 |
FR1553254A (sv) | 1969-01-10 |
AT274879B (de) | 1969-10-10 |
BE709271A (sv) | 1968-05-16 |
LU55280A1 (sv) | 1968-04-22 |
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