EP1268865A1 - Procede et dispositif de traitement thermique de fil d'acier - Google Patents
Procede et dispositif de traitement thermique de fil d'acierInfo
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Classifications
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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
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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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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
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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
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a process for the heat treatment of steel wire, comprising a rise in temperature of at least one wire to be treated up to a temperature of austenitization of the steel, and maintaining the wire at this temperature. temperature during a period of temperature equalization within the metallic mass of said at least one wire, during which there occurs an at least partial dissolution of carbides present in the steel. It also relates to a device for implementing this method.
- the heating of the wire or of the layer of wires in the methods of patenting wires is carried out either in ovens with open fire, or in tube ovens, without the intervention of a fluidized bed.
- the heating is generally carried out in ovens with open fire whose atmospheres, obtained by combustion of a gas and an oxidizer, are regulated so as to be: oxidants in the first heating phase of the products so as to burn residues of various kinds which may be on their surface, b) reducing with respect to the product, when the latter has passed the allotropic transformation phase in order to avoid oxidation and decarburization on the surface of the products.
- wire heating furnaces using a fluidized bed have already been known for a few years and the present applicant has already placed such ovens on the market, in particular for the diffusion of Cu-Zn coatings in wires. steel.
- a method, as indicated above, has also been described in Japanese patent 2623004.
- the heating of the bed is carried out according to one embodiment using the fluidizing agent which consists of flue gases resulting from the combustion of a combustion gas in air, this fluidizing agent being injected into the bottom of the fluidized bed by perforated lances, very sophisticated to prevent penetration of particles from the bed into the lance.
- the fluidizing agent is air and a heat source external to the fluidized bed is formed of burners located above the fluidized bed and projecting a flame or hot gases vertically on it.
- the process according to this prior document makes it possible to reach in the fluidized bed a temperature only moderate from 470 to 550 ° C.
- it is limited by the very complexity of the lances supplying the bed with a fluidizing agent, such lances being unable to withstand the aggressiveness of flue gas at too high a temperature, at the risk of having to be replaced very regularly.
- vertical heating from above it has the drawback of being ineffective and above all of causing a lack of uniformity in the temperature of the bed. Indeed, the burners used each have a punctual impact on the bed with the consequence of small very hot surfaces of the bed and the neighboring parts much less, which is obviously to be avoided to obtain an adequate treatment of the wires.
- the object of the present invention is to offer a solution to the often large dimensions of ovens, in particular ovens used in the austenitization of steel wires, while achieving equivalent or even superior qualities of treated wires and allowing processing during the continuous scrolling of the threads.
- the present invention also aims to allow rapid and uniform heating of the fluidized bed and of the wires to be treated, and this at a good energy yield, so as to allow a period of temperature equalization within the metallic mass largely greater than what is applied now, and without this prejudicing the bulk of the overall apparatus.
- a fluidized bed is formed of particles of solid material which are brought into suspension by the entrainment of a fluidizing agent, normally a gas, which crosses the bed from bottom to top. During this crossing, the fluidizing agent carries upwards the particles, some of which are projected in the form of waves or protuberances higher than others.
- a fluidizing agent normally a gas
- the fluidizing agent carries upwards the particles, some of which are projected in the form of waves or protuberances higher than others.
- average upper surface of the fluidized bed it is therefore to be understood according to the invention the surface which is situated at the average height between the hollows and the tops of the waves existing at the upper surface of the bed.
- the particles of the fluidized bed which are there in a sparse, highly dispersed state, can be heated to extremely high temperatures, close to incandescence.
- the particles thus strongly heated, transfer the heat to the other particles which will be in contact with the wires by obtaining an optimal heat exchange at a speed impossible to envisage in accordance with the teaching of the prior art.
- the tangential heating is independent of the fluidizing agent and the perforated lances projecting this agent are not attacked by flue gases brought to excessive temperatures.
- the temperature for heating the wires, during which the austenitization of the wires takes place can be drastically shortened, and therefore we can now envisage a period of maintaining the austenitization temperature sufficient to obtain a deep dissolution of the carbides of Fe from the steel wires , without increasing the cost of the installation to a commercially indefensible level and without making it of an unbearable size.
- this embodiment makes it possible to decompose the installation into two units, one relatively short, in the form of a fluidized bed oven and the other consisting of a simple tube or insulated box where the wires pass in being kept at temperature by simple means such as electric heating elements, gas burners of the radiating type, the fluidizing agent recirculated from the elongated oven, and / or a second fluidized bed.
- said at least one tangential heater is oriented transversely relative to the direction of travel of said at least one metal wire to be heated.
- the heating of the fluidized bed allows uniform heating and spread over the entire width and length of the bed of particles suspended in the bed, which allows uniform heating of the threads running in the oven.
- said at least one tangential heating comprises a projection of at least one flame and / or jet of smoke tangentially to said average upper surface of the fluidized bed.
- the burners directly heat the particles of the fluidized bed, without gases burned at high temperature having to pass through a perforated tube, fragile under these conditions.
- the layout is simple and highly efficient.
- said at least one tangential heating comprises a heat exchange between a heating medium and the fluidized bed by means of at least one tube which is disposed tangentially to said average upper surface of the fluidized bed and through which said heating medium passes. It is thus possible to efficiently and quickly heat alloy steel wires which cannot come into contact with flue gases. The heat exchange takes place remarkably between a simple, non-perforated tube, through which the heating medium and the sparse particles of the bed pass which lick the walls of the heated tube.
- the method comprises at least one pumping of fluidized particulate medium above the fluidized bed and a discharge of a jet of this particulate medium towards the fluidized bed in a direction opposite to said direction of scrolling.
- Said at least one tangential heating is carried out at least partially through the jet of repressed particulate medium.
- the particulate matter is discharged in the form of rain at a level higher than the ridges of the fluidized bed and in the middle of the bed, which has the effect of raising in this case the aforementioned average upper surface of the bed above. above the ridges of the bed.
- the heads of the burners can according to the invention be arranged at a level also raised. It then becomes possible to arrange the burner heads outside particles, and therefore the embodiment has significantly less risk of fouling of these burner heads by particles from the bed.
- a device for heat treatment of steel wire comprising
- this device further comprising
- Heating means of the fluidized bed comprising at least heating means which produce heating substantially tangentially to an upper average surface thereof.
- FIG. 1 to 3 show a cross-sectional view of three alternative embodiments of a fluidized bed oven according to the invention.
- FIG. 4 represents a top view of the furnace shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 5 represents a device comprising two successive units, one for heating the wires and the other for maintaining the temperature.
- FIG. 6 represents a graph illustrating the variation in temperature of the wire passing through the oven as a function of time.
- Figures 7 and 8 show a cross-sectional view and a longitudinal sectional view of a fourth alternative embodiment of a fluidized bed furnace according to the invention.
- FIG 1 there is shown in cross section an elongated oven 1 containing a fluidized bed 2.
- the fluidized bed 2 is formed of particles relatively finely divided into a material resistant to high temperatures and preferably inert with respect to the son to heat.
- particles of silica, zirconia, alumina or other refractory materials having a good ability to transmit heat to the bodies which are in contact with them. Mention may very particularly be made of alumina sands, for example of grain size F90 according to standard FEPA 42F 1984, or zircon sands.
- a fluidizing agent such as for example air, nitrogen, ammonia, is introduced at high pressure and in this case at room temperature at the base of the fluidized bed, via a perforated lance 3.
- Any protective gas judiciously chosen according to the nature of the steel can be used for this purpose.
- the fluidizing agent By its pressure and its flow, the fluidizing agent carries the particles from the bed upwards and brings them into suspension.
- This swirl type suspension is manifested at the top of bed 2 by the formation of waves, the mean upper surface of the bed being represented by a dashed line 4.
- the fluidizing agent is not combustible under the process conditions.
- the latter cold or at room temperature, does not in any way stress the lance by which it is projected into the fluidized bed and the lifespan of the lances is consequently very greatly increased compared to the lances according to the prior art which are used for the both fluidization and heating of the bed.
- the very hot fluidizing agent after passing through the bed is then recovered at the top of the furnace by an exhaust duct 5 (see FIG. 5).
- a layer of wires 6 passes through the oven in the longitudinal direction of the oven which is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, at a speed which is calculated as a function of a constant fixed by production requirements and therefore the capacity of the processing line.
- This constant is equal to the product of the diameter of the wire expressed in mm and the speed of the wire expressed in m / minute. Therefore, the thinner the wire, the faster its running speed and vice versa. It should be noted that one could consider the scrolling of a single wire at a time in the oven, or the scrolling of several wires of different diameters, or the scrolling of several overlapping layers at the same time.
- the means for heating the fluidized bed consist of several burners 7 (see also FIG. 4) which are, in this example, arranged on either side of the ply of wires to be heat and which project their flame or smoke transversely to the direction of travel of the wires.
- the flames or fumes are in particular projected tangentially to said upper average surface 4 of the fluidized bed, thereby directly heating the particles. suspended in a strip of the bed where they are less dense and therefore more easily carried almost incandescent.
- the flame of the burners and the fumes produced at the outlet of the burner commonly result from the combustion of a fuel and an oxidizer, for example a combustible gas or liquid, such as CH 4 , fuel, etc. ., and air, enriched or not with oxygen, or even oxygen considered industrially pure.
- a fuel and an oxidizer for example a combustible gas or liquid, such as CH 4 , fuel, etc. ., and air, enriched or not with oxygen, or even oxygen considered industrially pure.
- the flue gases formed are then recovered by the exhaust pipe 5, simultaneously with the heated fluidizing agent.
- the burners are arranged alternately to the left and to the right of the sheet of wires and the flame and the very hot jet of burnt gas which accompanies it extend transversely over the entire width from the oven.
- This arrangement offers the advantage of allowing very uniform heating of the fluidized bed and therefore of the wires to be treated.
- the wires to be heated cannot come into contact with burnt gases to maintain their surface state.
- the heating of the bed takes place here also tangentially to the mean upper surface 4 of the bed, but by means of an unperforated tube 8 which the waves of particles of the bed come to lick, which are thus brought to high temperature.
- the burnt gases exit through an outlet conduit 9 through which they can be recovered.
- the embodiment illustrated in Figure 3 is of the same type as that shown in Figure 2. However, in this case, there is provided a box 10 located below the fluidized bed and in communication with the spray lance 3.
- a or burners 11 are arranged in this box and make it possible to obtain hot fumes up to a moderate temperature, higher than ambient temperature, for example of the order of 400 to 500 ° C., where the fumes are not yet exaggeratedly aggressive for the lances 3.
- This embodiment allows an even greater efficiency in heating the fluidized bed. It is understood that this arrangement could also be provided with that of open flame burners as illustrated in FIG. 1.
- the wires to be treated in the ovens according to the invention are for example steel wires which are going to be subjected to a patenting operation.
- the patenting operation is a well-known process in the world of wire drawing, it consists in bringing, at first, the temperature of a wire or a sheet of metal wires to a level such that one obtains a transformation of ferrite and perlite or perlite and cementite into austenite.
- a second step what is called isothermal quenching is carried out so as to transform the austenite (previously obtained by heating) into fine perlite in order to obtain good mechanical properties and, especially, excellent drawing ability. .
- a heating unit 1 As illustrated in FIG. 5, in an example of a device according to the invention, it will be possible to provide two separate units, a heating unit 1 and a temperature equalization unit 12.
- the heating unit consists of a fluidized bed oven 1 2, as previously described, which can be relatively short, given the excellent heat transfer coefficient of this type of oven.
- the wire 6 runs continuously through this oven which may have a length of for example 5 to 6 m.
- a box 10 of the type shown schematically in Figure 3 is arranged to allow prior heating of the fluidizing medium.
- the temperature of the heated fluidized sand according to the invention can advantageously reach approximately 1000 ° C.
- the wire 6 thus leaves the oven 1 at a temperature of approximately 950 ° C. and then passes into the temperature equalization unit 12, by means of a sealed hopper 13.
- the unit 12 consists of a perfectly insulated box or tube from the thermal point of view. In this one it suffices to maintain the acquired wire temperature of 950 ° C. and a heat exchange allowing heating is no longer necessary. In the illustrated case, this temperature is maintained by recycling the burnt gases from unit 1 through the exhaust duct 5.
- the burnt gases released are brought to a filtering means, for example a cyclone 14, and the filtered gases that are still hot or partially heated in a complementary manner are brought using a pump 15 to the unit 12 for maintaining the temperature of the wire.
- the dissolution of carbides is carried out in unit 12, which can have a length of approximately 4 m and in which, by scrolling, the wire remains for a sufficient time to obtain the dissolution / on carbides.
- unit 12 can have a length of approximately 4 m and in which, by scrolling, the wire remains for a sufficient time to obtain the dissolution / on carbides.
- the wire passes to a quenching device 16 only partially shown.
- the total device of this example therefore has a completely acceptable length in terms of overall dimensions of approximately 9 to 10 m.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 another embodiment has been shown in which pumping devices 17 are provided to counteract the migration of the fluidized bed particles from the inlet of the furnace to the outlet.
- the particles are in fact mechanically entrained by the scrolling movement of the wires.
- These pumping devices 17 comprise in the example illustrated a tube 18 disposed substantially vertically, which is connected in its lower part to a collection cone 19. The latter is advantageously arranged above a perforated lance 3.
- the tube 18 is connected to a sprinkler nozzle 20 which is oriented in a direction opposite to the direction of travel 21 of the wires 6 to be treated.
- the sprinkler nozzle 20 is also oriented obliquely towards the central part of the oven, as can be seen from FIG. 7.
- the perforations in the lances 3 are arranged downwards.
- the particles of the fluidized bed and the fluidizing agent rush into the collection cone. Since the mass of the particles then has an apparent density in the tube which is significantly lower than that of the fluidized bed, this mass is projected higher than the crests of the fluidized bed: the sprinkler nozzles then return jets 22 of particles towards the back and towards the center of the bed, which helps to counter the migration of particles in the direction of travel of the son. As can be seen, this pumping does not imply, in the illustrated case, any additional energy expenditure.
- the tangential heating thus obtained is particularly effective.
- it offers the advantage that the heads of the burners 7 are out of reach of the particles which are projected towards the center of the furnace. Soiling of the burner heads can thus be favorably avoided.
- a steel wire of eutectoid type and with a diameter of 3 mm is introduced into a fluidized bed furnace equipped according to the invention, the constant DV (wire diameter (mm) x running speed (m / min)) is 36.
- the fluidized bed consists of Al 2 0 3 - F90, with a particle size of 106 to 250 ⁇ m. It is kept in suspension by a fluidizing gas, here air, having a minimum pressure of 600 mm H 2 0 and a flow rate of 64 Nrr ⁇ Vh.m 2 .
- the fluidizing gas is introduced from the bottom of the fluidized bed at room temperature.
- Burners project tangentially to the upper average surface of the fluidized bed of the fumes resulting from the combustion of gas and combustion air, so as to heat the particles of the fluidized bed almost to incandescence and to obtain a bed of a temperature average of about 1000 ° C.
- the fumes from the burners are in direct contact with the fluidized bed.
- the wire reaches a temperature of 950 ° C after approximately 20 seconds of travel, maximum 30 seconds, that is to say that the length of the oven with a fluidized bed according to the invention can be limited to a value of approximately 5 m, for the constant DV chosen above.
- a steel wire of type XC70 (0.76% of C) is subjected to the same processing conditions as in Example 1.
- the wire has a diameter of 1 mm and its constant DV is 36.
- the wire reaches a temperature of 950 ° C. after approximately 5 seconds of travel and the length of the fluidized bed oven can be limited to a value equal to or even less than 5 m.
- the wire is kept at the temperature of 950 ° C. for the dissolution of the tertiary cementite.
- a steel wire of type XC70 is subjected to the same processing conditions as in Example 1.
- the wire has a diameter of 5 mm and its constant DV is 36.
- the wire reaches a temperature of 950 ° C. after approximately 40 to 50 seconds of travel and the length of the fluidized bed oven can be limited to a value of approximately 5.5 m. Over a length of 4 m, which corresponds to a passage period of approximately 35 seconds, the wire is kept at the temperature of 950 ° C.
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