EP0728222B1 - Poche de traitement de metal liquide de faible encombrement - Google Patents
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- EP0728222B1 EP0728222B1 EP95900816A EP95900816A EP0728222B1 EP 0728222 B1 EP0728222 B1 EP 0728222B1 EP 95900816 A EP95900816 A EP 95900816A EP 95900816 A EP95900816 A EP 95900816A EP 0728222 B1 EP0728222 B1 EP 0728222B1
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B21/00—Obtaining aluminium
- C22B21/06—Obtaining aluminium refining
- C22B21/064—Obtaining aluminium refining using inert or reactive gases
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B21/00—Obtaining aluminium
- C22B21/06—Obtaining aluminium refining
- C22B21/066—Treatment of circulating aluminium, e.g. by filtration
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B9/00—General processes of refining or remelting of metals; Apparatus for electroslag or arc remelting of metals
- C22B9/05—Refining by treating with gases, e.g. gas flushing also refining by means of a material generating gas in situ
- C22B9/055—Refining by treating with gases, e.g. gas flushing also refining by means of a material generating gas in situ while the metal is circulating, e.g. combined with filtration
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
- F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
- F27D11/00—Arrangement of elements for electric heating in or on furnaces
- F27D11/02—Ohmic resistance heating
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- the invention relates to a gas treatment bag for metal liquid, especially aluminum or its alloys but also magnesium or its alloys, compact and having thermal performance or others improved.
- This treatment is usually carried out by blowing a gas suitable, for example of the Ar type containing a few percent of chlorine, to using a rotor immersed in the liquid metal itself contained in a processing pocket.
- a gas suitable for example of the Ar type containing a few percent of chlorine
- the pocket can thus serve as a ladle.
- a pocket has one or more treatment compartments, each of them containing a gas insufflation rotor, the latter being unable to treat only a determined volume of liquid metal; often compartments are two in number.
- the pocket can also be fitted with a adjoining outlet compartment.
- the bags can be heated using walls or lids heated, but such a device, if it allows pockets compact, has the disadvantage of having a yield insufficient thermal, to be ineffective and to give strong gradients temperature in the liquid metal.
- the heating covers can cause increased pollution of the liquid metal surface by oxidation and formation of dross. Maintenance and cleaning are also important.
- heating can be carried out using a block of graphite immersed in liquid metal; in the block are inserted heating tubes.
- Such a device gives insufficient heating efficient, presents problems of maintenance and quality of the metal due to the use of graphite and has a random lifetime also linked to the use of graphite.
- the heating of a treatment compartment can also be carried out at using a single immersion heater comprising an immersed heating part in liquid metal and an emerging riser for connections and handling.
- a single immersion heater comprising an immersed heating part in liquid metal and an emerging riser for connections and handling.
- Such an immersion heater is generally consisting, in its heating part, of an embedded electrical resistance in a refractory substance that is a good thermal conductor and insulator electric the whole being contained in a sheath also good conductor thermal resistance to liquid metal.
- This sheath is advantageously in sintered ceramic, for example in sialon, which resists Al well liquid or its alloys.
- the immersion heaters usually used in this app have a large diameter usually around at least 110 at 200 mm.
- the pocket comprises a treatment compartment and an outlet compartment, the treatment compartment comprising a single immersion heater and gas introduction using nozzles located in the wall.
- immersion heaters of this type provide heating efficient with good thermal efficiency.
- Pockets equipped with rotor and this type of high immersion heaters diameter can be operated in different ways.
- the Applicant has sought to resolve the problems of homogeneity and control of the temperature of the bag due to the use of the type of immersion heater described above and operating problems and size of the pocket also linked to the use of this type of immersion heater.
- the invention is a bag for the continuous treatment of liquid metal, comprising one or more compartments, each treatment compartment comprising a device for introducing process gas, characterized in that each said processing compartment further comprises at least a small diameter immersion heater with a high unit power.
- the bag is particularly suitable for the treatment of aluminum or its alloys, but also magnesium or its alloys.
- the immersion heater is small in diameter and powerful important, which results in a dissipated power per unit area more importantly, it is unexpected not to note any burn of the metal.
- the immersion heaters and the gas introduction device are therefore submerged and installed simultaneously in the pocket during operation, which thus avoids handling them with each new casting.
- a simple device can lift all of the immersion heaters, or even rotors, to completely clear the surface of the bath for occasional cleaning.
- the treatment is generally carried out on parade on raw liquid metal circulating continuously in the pocket, coming from an installation of processing, the treated metal leaving the pocket to be directly cast in different forms: plates, billets, strips, molded parts, etc ...
- the treatment gas is generally an inert gas with respect to the metal treated, for example argon, which can however be added with a gas reagent, for example chlorine, as is well known to those skilled in the art job.
- a gas reagent for example chlorine
- the device of the invention is particularly useful for ensuring maintaining or warming up the bag for treatments continuous; it is likewise well suited to batch processing.
- the bag is generally of large capacity, containing several tons of liquid metal, and may comprise one or preferably several processing compartments themselves, each of which is equipped with gas introduction device, for example immersed rotors and several immersion heaters (generally two or more). She can also have an outlet compartment that allows only metal to flow clean not polluted by any dross from the treatment or surface oxidation of the molten metal during processing. But the invention applies more generally to all types of pockets, including including those of small dimensions or test pockets, with the same benefits.
- the immersion heaters used in the invention are of the resistance type electric embedded in a refractory and protected by a sheath; they include, like those known from the prior art, a heating part immersed in the liquid metal enhanced with a non-heating extension and not submerged allowing electrical connections and handling; their heating part is covered with a sheath advantageously in sintered ceramic, for example alumina, zirconia, Alon, sialon, oxynitride mixed (of the MgAlON type), nitride, boride, etc., which resists well liquid aluminum and has excellent thermal conductivity compared to those of the prior art, however they are of a very small footprint for equivalent power.
- sintered ceramic for example alumina, zirconia, Alon, sialon, oxynitride mixed (of the MgAlON type), nitride, boride, etc.
- the heating part prefferably covers the entire height of the liquid metal bath.
- the immersion heaters can be installed nearby (some centimeters) from the inside of the pocket walls without harming temperature uniformity of the liquid metal, including during transitional periods. By grouping the immersion heaters in one pocket the along the same wall, problems of maintenance and cleaning.
- the outlet compartment is equipped at least one immersion heater of this type, the temperature of the metal there finding it can thus be brought precisely to the desired value. This significantly improves the thermal quality of the liquid metal, particularly during transitional periods of maintenance or implementation temperature and avoids the troubles and risks of freezing at the start of casting.
- the immersion heaters are permanently installed in the pockets during periods of operation; however they can be fixed on a simple lifting device, preferably motorized and permanently installed on the pocket, so as to remove or handle them easily to carry out ladle maintenance operations, skimming and scouring of the bath surface.
- Improvements can also be made using said lifting device for simultaneously lifting the rotor and the immersion heaters, or by installing said rotor on the same frame or trap than immersion heaters.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a pocket according to the invention comprising a single processing compartment and an outlet compartment.
- the enclosure (1) of the pocket which has a single compartment treatment (2) separated by a partition (3) from the outlet compartment (4) communicating from below with the treatment compartment (2).
- the enclosure (1) may consist of an external metal casing and a internal refractory lining (not shown).
- the pocket is supplied with (5) by the raw metal to be treated, while the treated metal leaves in (6) to be sunk.
- Liquid metal the level of which is represented by (7), is treated with using a rotor device (8) comprising a pipe (9) for bringing the gas in the liquid metal (7). It is heated by a battery of immersion heaters (10) having their immersed heating part (11) and their extension (12) allowing, among other things, their electrical connection (13). Of even an immersion heater (14) is installed in the outlet compartment (4).
- the immersion heaters (10, 14) are installed near the same wall of the pocket. But it is good obvious that they could be arranged differently if the need arises made you feel.
- the pocket can advantageously include two (or more) compartments of treatment of type (2), in order to treat a higher metal flow rate. They usually operate in series, or according to any other arrangement compatible with operating constraints, and leading into the outlet compartment. Each of the compartments typically has a gas introduction device (rotor for example) and two immersion heaters which are generally sufficient to ensure control of the temperature while avoiding an excessive congestion of the interior space from the pocket.
- a gas introduction device rotor for example
- two immersion heaters which are generally sufficient to ensure control of the temperature while avoiding an excessive congestion of the interior space from the pocket.
- a bag having a capacity of 4 t aluminum, or its alloys, and comprising two compartments of treatment and an outlet compartment in series was fitted with a rotor and two immersion heaters per treatment compartment and one immersion heater in the outlet compartment.
- the immersion heaters are all identical, have a unit power of 10 kW, a total length 1 m, a heating length of 500 mm and an outside diameter of 28 mm heating part.
- the maximum deviations of temperature does not exceed 5 ° C and the temperature of the compartment outlet do not deviate by more than 5 ° C from the pouring temperature; of plus the time separating two flows does not exceed 1 h.
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Description
- elle occupe au sol un emplacement minimum; cet encombrement réduit est dû en particulier à l'absence d'engin de manutention spécifique, nécessaire dans l'art antérieur, pour effectuer, régulièrement en cours d'exploitation, la substitution rotor-thermoplongeur; le gain de place est de l'ordre de 30%;
- la durée de mise en température est significativement réduite, non seulement par rapport aux poches chauffées à partir des parois extérieures ou de séparation entre deux compartiments, mais encore par rapport aux poches utilisant un seul thermoplongeur;
- on améliore l'homogénéité et la maítrise de la température dans les
compartiments de traitement et dans le compartiment de sortie, durant les
périodes de mise, comme de maintien, en température; ceci permet de
maítriser parfaitement la température du métal coulé donc d'éviter les
pertes de métal en début de coulée pour non conformité et d'accroítre la
qualité des pièces obtenues.
On note ainsi des écarts maximum de température ne dépassant pas 5°C de sorte qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de surchauffer la poche de métal (ce qui limite notablement l'apparition de crasses) et que les risques de figeage sont quasiment supprimés à la coulée. - on facilite les opérations d'entretien et de nettoyage de la poche; le démontage des thermoplongeurs n'est pas toujours nécessaire ou est très simplifié grâce à une manutention aisée et rapide des thermoplongeurs permettant d'éviter des arrêts de production.
- la capacité de l'installation est accrue du fait de la simplification des opérations d'exploitation et de la rapidité de mise en température et de son homogénéisation dues à la pluralité de thermoplongeurs dans chaque compartiment de traitement.
Claims (11)
- Poche pour le traitement en continu de métal liquide comportant un ou plusieurs compartiments (2,4) dont optionnellement un compartiment de sortie (4), chaque compartiment de traitement (2) comportant un dispositif d'introduction de gaz de traitement immergé (8) et un thermoplongeur (10), caractérisée en ce que chaque dit compartiment de traitement (2) comporte au moins un thermoplongeur (10) de diamètre inférieur à 100 mm et de puissance spécifique importante d'au moins 5kW par mètre de longueur chauffante immergée (11).
- Poche selon la revendication 1 caractérisée en ce que le métal liquide est choisi parmi l'aluminium ou ses alliages, le magnésium ou ses alliages.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le diamètre des thermoplongeurs (10) est inférieur à 40 mm, de préférence inférieur à 30 mm.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que la puissance des thermoplongeurs (10) est d'au moins 10 kW par mètre de longueur chauffante immergée et de préférence de 20 kW.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que les thermoplongeurs (10) sont équipés de gaines en céramique frittée, bon conducteur thermique et résistant bien au métal liquide.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5 caractérisée en ce que les thermoplongeurs (10) sont répartis à proximité des parois de la poche.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6 caractérisée en ce que le compartiment de sortie (4) contient undit thermoplongeur (10).
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7 caractérisée en ce que les thermoplongeurs (10) sont montés sur un système de levage installé à demeure sur la poche.
- Poche selon la revendication 8 caractérisée en ce que le système de levage comprend un trappon d'accès au bain sur lequel les thermoplongeurs sont fixés.
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 8 ou 9 caractérisée en ce que le système de levage comprend le dispositif d'introduction de gaz (8).
- Poche selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 10 caractérisée en ce que le dispositif d'introduction de gaz (8) comprend un rotor immergé.
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FR9313808A FR2712217B1 (fr) | 1993-11-12 | 1993-11-12 | Poche de traitement de métal liquide de faible encombrement et de performances améliorées. |
FR9313808 | 1993-11-12 | ||
PCT/FR1994/001305 WO1995013402A1 (fr) | 1993-11-12 | 1994-11-08 | Poche de traitement de metal liquide de faible encombrement |
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EP0728222A1 EP0728222A1 (fr) | 1996-08-28 |
EP0728222B1 true EP0728222B1 (fr) | 1998-01-14 |
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US (1) | US5494265A (fr) |
EP (1) | EP0728222B1 (fr) |
JP (1) | JP3790543B2 (fr) |
AU (1) | AU680703B2 (fr) |
CA (1) | CA2176136C (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69407992T2 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2113724T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2712217B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1995013402A1 (fr) |
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US5963580A (en) * | 1997-12-22 | 1999-10-05 | Eckert; C. Edward | High efficiency system for melting molten aluminum |
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WO1995013402A1 (fr) | 1995-05-18 |
FR2712217A1 (fr) | 1995-05-19 |
FR2712217B1 (fr) | 1995-12-22 |
US5494265A (en) | 1996-02-27 |
DE69407992D1 (de) | 1998-02-19 |
ES2113724T3 (es) | 1998-05-01 |
CA2176136A1 (fr) | 1995-05-18 |
EP0728222A1 (fr) | 1996-08-28 |
JP3790543B2 (ja) | 2006-06-28 |
JPH09509218A (ja) | 1997-09-16 |
DE69407992T2 (de) | 1998-07-30 |
CA2176136C (fr) | 2000-11-07 |
AU680703B2 (en) | 1997-08-07 |
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