Cooling Patents (Class 266/46)
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Patent number: 11913857Abstract: A system used in monitoring one or more operating parameters of a coolant-fluid cooled industrial installation includes one or more an acoustic sensors positioned to receive and sense one or more acoustic signals in an installation coolant-fluid flow. The acoustic sensor assembly operates to emit and sense acoustic signals at frequency ranges above and/or below the background noise frequency ranges which are associated with the normal industrial installation operation. Output data signals representative of sensed acoustic signals are compared to target frequency profiles predetermined as representing an acoustic frequency associated with a predetermined installation operating parameter or event.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: Marco Luccini, Vittorio Scipolo
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Patent number: 11448398Abstract: One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. The burner panel has a body. The body has a front face, a first side surface, and a second side surface. Additionally, the body has a hollow extending between the first side surface, second side surface, and the front face. A middle portion of the body extends from the hollow toward the interior face. A burner tube is disposed through the middle portion of the body. The burner tube has an exterior portion having an entry and an exit disposed at the font face. An internal mounting flange extends along the first side surface and the second side surface. The body of the burner panel has no internal plumbing for cooling.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Ferguson, Troy D. Ward, Eric Chodl, Ron Coursey
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Patent number: 11225694Abstract: A cooling panel for a metallurgical furnace includes a body with a front face and an opposite rear face, a top face and an opposite bottom face and two opposite side faces. The body has at least one cooling channel therein, the cooling channel having openings in the rear face; wherein, in use, the front face of the body is turned towards a furnace interior. According to the invention, the cooling panel having at least one cooling pipe arranged in at least one elongate recess formed in the front face, where the cooling pipe has an elongate middle section and at either end thereof, an angled branch, the cooling pipe forming the cooling channel, and where the cooling pipe is arranged in the elongate recess such that the angled branches protrude through the openings in the rear face of the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: PAUL WURTH S.A.Inventors: Giang Kien Ly, Nicolas Maggioli
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Patent number: 10393438Abstract: At least one row of fixed copper coolers are arranged in a furnace in a cantilevered horizontal shelf inside and fastened to an external steel ring support and the steel containment shell. These shelves redirect and take all the weight of refractory brick and floating cooling blocks that are stacked on above. Each fixed copper cooler in the shelves cantilever shoulder-to-shoulder over any refractory brick and floating cooling blocks that may be stacked beneath to relieve that lower portion of the wall from the weight of the upper wall. When relieved of such weight, the risks of sudden catastrophic failure of the lower walls is reduced. These bricks in the lower walls can also be allowed to wear and thin beyond what would be reasonable in a conventional design without any cantilevered shelving.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: MacRae Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Allan J. MacRae
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Patent number: 9248497Abstract: A metal transfer device (1) includes a cast trough body (2) for receiving liquid metal, a heater (4) for heating the trough body, and a filler layer (6) between the trough body and the heater. The filler layer (6) comprises a cast refractory material having a high thermal conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Pyrotek Engineering Materials LimitedInventor: Mark Vincent
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Patent number: 9039956Abstract: Provided is a cooling system for a hot-rolled steel strip capable of increasing the cooling rate for rapidly cooling a rolled steel immediately after rolling and suitable for an apparatus for manufacturing a hot-rolled steel strip having a fine-grained structure. For this purpose, guides (16A, 16B) having guiding surfaces (16a, 16b) to guide a rolled steel (W) exiting work rolls (12A, 12B) in the conveyance direction are provided at exits of the work rolls in a final stand (Sn) of a finish rolling mill line in a manner that the guides can follow a change in the diameter of the work rolls, a number of injection holes (21A, 21B) are formed in the guides, and a number of rolled steel cooling nozzles (23A, 23B) are provided to spray a large amount of cooling water through the injection holes directly onto the rolled steel.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignees: MITSUBISHI-HITACHI METALS MACHINERY, INC., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Matsumoto, Yuji Ikemoto, Yoichi Haraguchi, Kazuaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20150137432Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise a refractory delta made from a refractory material having a cold-face side and a hot-face side. One or more electrode apertures are located in the refractory delta for receiving one or more electrodes. One or more cooling apertures extend from the cold-face side of the refractory material to adjacent the hot-face side of the refractory material. The one or more cooling apertures may further comprise a copper tube. A cooling system delivers a cooling liquid to the one or more cooling apertures, and the cooling liquid draws heat from the adjacent refractory material, including the hot-face side, and evaporates to allow replacement cooling liquid to further draw heat from the adjacent refractory material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Nucor CorporationInventor: Omar A. Quintanilla Montemayor
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Publication number: 20150084246Abstract: A metallurgical furnace system having a furnace body at least partially defined by a refractory wall and configured for holding a molten metal therein. The system further including one or more cooling elements, each including a working fluid contained therein and defining a heat absorption section and a heat rejection section. The heat absorption section configured for disposing within the refractory wall to absorb heat from the refractory wall. The heat rejection section configured to reside outside the refractory wall to reject heat absorbed by the heat absorption section. The working fluid generating a vapor flow within the one or more cooling elements in response to absorbed heat. The cooling system further including a coolant flow in contact with an exterior surface of the one or more cooling elements for dissipating heat from the heat rejection section. A cooling system for a metallurgical furnace and method of cooling are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ching Jen Tang, Joo Han Kim
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Patent number: 8961864Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention include a method and apparatus for cooling a metal strip that is being advanced in a generally horizontal fashion. The method involves delivering a coolant liquid onto a lower surface of the strip from below across the entire width of the strip, preventing the coolant liquid from contacting the upper surface of the strip, and optionally subsequently removing the coolant liquid from the lower surface. The coolant liquid is prevented from contacting the upper surface by forming a gas-directing channel immediately above the upper surface of the strip adjacent to one or preferably both lateral edges of the strip and forcing a gas through the channel in a direction generally away from a center of the strip towards the one or both lateral edges to deflect coolant liquid away from the upper surface of the strip. The apparatus provides means for carrying out these steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Novelis Inc.Inventors: Rejean Lemay, Andrew Hobbis, Heinz Becker, David Gaensbauer
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Publication number: 20140265067Abstract: A burner and/or injector panel includes at least two cooling circuits that may be connected in series with a flexible hose or rigid pipe connected to the circuits behind a rear face of the panel or connected in parallel to a source of cooling water by independently connecting each cooling circuit to the cooling water source without connecting the flexible hose or rigid pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLCInventor: Yury EYFA
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Patent number: 8715565Abstract: A cooling system that cools hot rolled long steel bar, provided with a plurality of chambers that are arranged along the longitudinal direction of the rolled steel bar. Each of the plurality of chambers is provided with a blow outlet that, facing from the chamber to the rolled steel bar, blows out compressed air for cooling that is introduced to the chamber from a gas inlet that is connected to the chamber; a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes that is provided at this blow outlet so as to face the rolled steel bar; a cooling water supply nozzle that supplies cooling water into the chamber; and a rectifying plate that is provided between the gas inlet and the cooling water supply nozzle, and that prevents the compressed gas for cooling that is introduced from the gas inlet from directly striking the nozzle plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Seiji Sugiyama, Tatsuya Yamanokuchi, Takeshi Kimura, Mitsugu Kajiwara, Kazuhisa Fujiwara, Takuya Sato
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Patent number: 8703042Abstract: A method and system for method for removing solid accretions from a copper anode or holding furnace using coherent jet lance assembly directed towards the solid accretions in the bottom portion of the copper anode furnace to melt the solid accretions over an extended period of time without damage to the furnace refractory proximate a point of stream impingement.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Adrian C. Deneys, Stephen A. Manley, William J. Mahoney, Kevin W. Albrecht, Jesse E. Cates, Arsenio C. Enriquez, Jr., Kyle Brent Wright
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Patent number: 8613883Abstract: Diagnostic methods and systems are used to determine operating condition and performance of a cooling element in a metallurgical reactor during operation of the reactor. The system can include sensing means, processing means and display means. The sensing means is located in or approximate the cooling element for sensing operating conditions of the cooling element. The processing means is in communication with the sensing means for receiving data corresponding to the sensed operating conditions and for processing the data to determine a relative condition indicator of the cooling element. The display means is in communication with the processing means and displays the relative condition indicator to a user of the diagnostic system. The display means can display a first, second or third state representative of the relative health indicator.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Hatch Ltd.Inventors: Terry Gerritsen, Aloysius Henry Gunnewiek
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Patent number: 8557172Abstract: System and method to harden rails by cooling, in a cooling medium, at least one part of a respective rail cross-section of a rail over an entire length of the rail. The system includes a cross displacement device arranged in an area of a roller table, at least one coolant container containing the cooling medium, a manipulation gripper structured and arranged to move the rail, and at least one positioning device comprising substantially horizontally aligned holding components having fittings structured and arranged to support a foot portion of the rail such that the rail hangs from the fittings.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Voestalpine Schienen GmbHInventors: Norbert Koeck, Hans Pfeiler
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Patent number: 8506877Abstract: A method and a device adjust the cooling of a steel strip in an annealing or galvanization phase. The device is suitable for the forced cooling of a steel strip continuously running in a plant adapted for the continuous annealing or the continuous tempering galvanization. The device has at least one exchange member for transferring the heat of the steel strip to cooling water and includes an outlet for the cooling water thus heated up. At least one cooling unit is provided and has a sealed enclosure connected to the outlet of the exchange member and includes at least one outlet to a Venturi effect device such as a vapor outlet ejector and in which the cooling water itself is subjected to a vacuum-vaporization cooling. An auxiliary outlet of the sealed enclosure is connected to an inlet of the exchange member.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Siemens VAI Metals Technologies SASInventor: Pierre-Jérôme Borrel
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Manufacturing apparatus of hot-rolled steel sheet and manufacturing method of hot rolled steel sheet
Patent number: 8500927Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing apparatus of a hot-rolled steel sheet capable of cooling control of a steel sheet even when disposing a cooling device capable of cooling from inside a finishing mill. The manufacturing apparatus of a hot-rolled steel sheet comprises: an immediate rapid-cooling device capable of spraying cooling water, at least a part thereof being disposed inside a final stand in the row of hot finishing mills; a device for measuring a temperature on an entry side of a final stand; a device for measuring a steel sheet passing speed; a device for predicting a rapid-cooling stopping temperature which calculates a predicted rapid-cooling stopping temperature; and an immediate rapid-cooling control device which corrects the water supply volume or water supply pressure of the immediate rapid-cooling device such that the predicted rapid-cooling stopping temperature matches a targeted rapid-cooling stopping temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Hisayoshi Tachibana, Shigemasa Nakagawa -
Patent number: 8480947Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cooling element for a metallurgical furnace, wherein there is arranged a frame element mainly made of copper and provided with water cooling channels; in the frame element, there are arranged fastening elements for connecting refractory bricks to the frame element; and refractory bricks are connected to the frame element by using fastening elements; and wherein the fastening elements are at least partly formed of elongate steel fastening strips; the method comprising fastening the elongate fastening steel strips to the frame element so that the elongate fastening steel strips together form in between them an open interspace, which is narrowed in a direction pointed away from the bottom of the open interspace; and arranging refractory bricks in the open interspace so that the refractory bricks are located at least partly in the open interspace.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Risto Saarinen, Eero Hugg, Mikael Jafs
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Publication number: 20130154167Abstract: An exhaust gas duct apparatus for use in a rotary-hearth furnace for heating a starting material including a carbonaceous reducing material and an iron-oxide containing material to produce reduced iron or granular metallic iron. In an exhaust gas duct for use in the rotary-hearth furnace, a cooling part for cooling an exhaust gas discharged from the rotary-hearth furnace to solidify a metal salt in the exhaust gas, a collision part for allowing the exhaust gas just after being cooled to collide therewith to drop down the metal salt solidified, and a direction change duct for guiding the exhaust gas after being collided, in a direction other than a direction of dropping the metal salt, are arranged in this order in two stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Noriaki Mizutani, Koji Tokuda, Osamu Tsuge
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Patent number: 8444909Abstract: A hot-strip cooling device for cooling a hot strip that has been subjected to finish rolling while being conveyed over a run-out table. The device includes a plurality of cooling nozzles that are disposed above a steel strip and eject rod-like flows of coolant at an ejection angle tilted toward the upstream side in a steel-strip traveling direction; and purging means that is disposed on the upstream side with respect to the cooling nozzles and purges the coolant that has been ejected from the cooling nozzles and resides on the steel strip.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ueoka, Akio Fujibayashi, Naoki Nakata, Takashi Kuroki, Shougo Tomita
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Patent number: 8440133Abstract: The present invention provides a cooling apparatus of a hot-rolled steel sheet capable of manufacturing a hot-rolled steel sheet having ultra fine crystal grains. In the cooling apparatus, when defining as L1, a length in a transporting direction of a steel sheet, of a zone from a rolling reduction point in a final stand to an exit side of a housing post; defining as L2, a length in the transporting direction of the steel sheet, of an area where high-pressure water is continuously sprayed over the steel sheet, within the zone; and defining a ratio of L2/L1 as X, an average value Ps [kPa], in the transporting direction of the steel sheet, of an impact pressure of the high-pressure water on a surface of the steel sheet in the area of the length L2 satisfies Ps?2.5X(?1/0.6) on the above upper surface and lower surface of the steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Manabu Eto, Yoichi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 8425832Abstract: The present invention relates to an injector for an arc furnace. The injector comprises a head suitable to face into the furnace and a body suitable to support the head. The head and body are manufactured separately from each other, and are fastened by means of removable connection means in order to implement said injector.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Concast AGInventors: Stefano Miani, Bruno Rubeo
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Patent number: 8404062Abstract: A cooling device and a cooling method for a hot strip allow uniform and stable cooling of the strip at a high cooling rate when supplying the coolant to the upper surface of the hot strip. The cooling device includes an upper header unit 21 for supplying a rod-like flow to the upper surface of the strip 10. The upper header unit 21 is formed of the first upper header group including plural first upper headers 21a arranged in a conveying direction and a second upper header group including plural second upper headers 21b arranged in the conveying direction. The cooling device is provided with an ON-OFF mechanism 30 to allow each of the upper headers 21a and 21b of the first and the second upper header groups to independently execute the ON-OFF control (start/end injection control) of an injection (feeding) of the rod-like flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ueoka, Naoki Nakata, Takashi Kuroki, Nobuo Nishiura
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Patent number: 8394318Abstract: A cooling apparatus of a steel sheet, which is excellent in discharging water without hindering the movement of a steel sheet, is disposed on a lower process side of a final stand in a row of hot finish rolling mills. The apparatus includes a plurality of cooling nozzles arranged to cool a steel sheet transported on transporting rolls, wherein the cooling nozzles are arranged on upper and lower surface sides of an area in which the steel sheet passes. A lower surface guide is arranged on the lower surface side with the lower surface guide comprising inlet holes through which cooling water sprayed from the cooling nozzles on the lower surface side passes and outlet holes through which the cooling water passes, dropping downwardly to be discharged. The inlet holes and the outlet holes are arranged alternately in a moving direction of the steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Kobayashi, Tomofumi Hosho, Yoichi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 8349247Abstract: The present invention provides a steel plate cooling method, in controlled cooling of thick-gauge steel plate, which uniformly cools steel plate over its entire length and eliminates plate warping, that is, a method of conveying and cooling the top and bottom surfaces of steel plate in a high temperature state after hot rolling while constraining the high temperature rolled steel plate by a plurality of sets or top and bottom draining rolls, wherein cooling nozzles having a large number of nozzle openings and individually or simultaneously spraying the two fluids of air and water are used to cool the steel plate, the cooling method of steel plate characterized by giving a stable pattern by driving out air trying to invade the path of flow reaching the front end of the cooling apparatus when the water which is fed is low in amount or low in pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventor: Hironori Ueno
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Patent number: 8318080Abstract: A device and a method for cooling a hot strip capable of uniformly cooling the hot-rolled steel strip from the leading end to the trailing end thereof during cooling of the steel strip using cooling water are provided. A cooling device 10 includes a plurality of tubular nozzles 15 inclined so as to eject rod-like flows of cooling water to a steel strip 12 at an ejecting angle ? in a traveling direction of the steel strip 12 and a pinch roller 11 disposed downstream of the tubular nozzles, the steel strip 12 to be nipped between the pinch roller 11 and a table roller 8.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ueoka, Akio Fujibayashi, Naoki Nakata, Takashi Kuroki, Shougo Tomita
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Patent number: 8268233Abstract: A cooling system comprises serpentine cooling fluid passages cast into a work piece with carefully controlled turning radii and profiles. Individual interdigitated baffles are contoured in the plane of coolant flow to have walls that thicken and then round off at their distal ends. The outside radii at these turns is similarly rounded and controlled such that the coolant flow will not be swirled into eddies.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Inventor: Allan J. MacRae
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Patent number: 8231826Abstract: A hot-strip cooling device and a cooling method are provided wherein uniform cooling of a hot-rolled steel strip using coolant is possible from the leading end to the trailing end of the steel strip. A cooling device (10) includes a plurality of round nozzles (15) disposed obliquely in such a manner as to eject rod-like flows of coolant at an ejection angle ? toward the upstream side in a direction in which a steel strip (12) travels, and a pinch roll (11) disposed on the upstream side with respect to the round nozzles (15) and configured to pinch the steel strip (12) in combination with a roller table (8).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ueoka, Akio Fujibayashi, Naoki Nakata, Takashi Kuroki, Shougo Tomita
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Patent number: 8216399Abstract: An improved quenching process is provided by supplying a secondary quenching tank with cooling medium from the pit of a forging press. Only heated, but unprocessed, billets are quenched in the secondary quench tank. The cooling medium from the pit of the forging press is not as clean as fresh water, but because the billets will be reheated, forged and quenched later with a fresh or conditioned cooling medium, the secondary tank quenching medium quality is not restrictive.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Peter Reinhart
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Patent number: 8197746Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of arranging and setting spray nozzles in a cooling apparatus comprising a plurality of pairs of constraining rolls for constraining and conveying a hot steel plate and one or more lines of spray nozzles between the pair of constraining rolls, each line having a plurality of spray nozzles and is disposed in a direction perpendicular to processing, and to the cooling apparatus and the method of cooling. The invention is characterized in that the spray nozzles are arranged such that a distribution of values ?Pn between two edges of the steel plate in the direction perpendicular to processing is not less than 80% of its highest value, with P being cooling water impact pressure on the cooling surface, ?Pn being the value of n power of P integrated in the processing direction between the pairs of constraining rolls, and 0.05?n?0.2.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Ryuji Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Serizawa, Shigeru Ogawa, Hironori Ueno, Masahiro Doki, Yasuhiro Nishiyama
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Patent number: 8074702Abstract: In a forming mold equipped with a cooling channel for circulation of a refrigerant composed of a cooling gas and a atomized cooling liquid, any increase of back pressure attributed to evaporation of the refrigerant fed to the cooling channel is inhibited to thereby attain cooling acceleration, and further any occurrence of rust or scale by the refrigerant circulated through the cooling channel is prevented. Accordingly, a channel for supply of the refrigerant to the cooling channel of the forming mold is provided with air pressure source for trapping of air in the supply channel and pressure feeding of the same; oxygen separation means for separation removal of oxygen from the pressure fed air to thereby lower the oxygen concentration of the air; and atomizing means for spraying of the cooling liquid into the air with oxygen concentration lowered.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuichi Furukawa
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Patent number: 8038930Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling element to be used in the structure of a pyromettalurgical reactor used in the manufacturing of metals, which cooling element comprises a housing element mainly made of copper, provided with a channel system for the cooling medium circulation, made of pipe that is mainly made of copper; on the outer surface of the pipes forming the channel system, there is arranged a coating that has a lower melting point than the material of the housing element and the pipe. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the cooling element.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Kai Seppälä, Jyrki Koitto, Risto Saarinen
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Patent number: 8021603Abstract: A rotary charging device for a shaft furnace, in particular a blast furnace, is disclosed. The charging device is equipped with a cooling system. The rotary charging device includes a rotatable support for rotary distribution means as well as a stationary housing for the rotatable support. The cooling system includes a rotary cooling circuit fixed in rotation with the rotatable support as well as a stationary cooling circuit on the stationary housing. A heat transfer device is provided which includes a stationary heat transfer element configured to be cooled by a cooling fluid flowing through the stationary cooling circuit and which includes a rotary heat transfer element configured to be heated by a separate cooling fluid circulated in the rotary cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Paul Wurth S.A.Inventors: Guy Thillen, Jeannot Loutsch, Patrick Hutmacher, Emile Lonardi, Paul Tockert
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Patent number: 8012406Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a hot steel plate which is processed and constrained by constraining rolls and a method of arranging and setting spray nozzles enabling uniform cooling in a direction perpendicular to processing. In the apparatus and method of the invention, the spray nozzles are arranged so that a value of n power of the impact pressure of the cooling water on the cooling surface integrated in the processing direction between pairs of constraining rolls becomes within ?20% of the highest value in the direction perpendicular to processing, where 0.05?n?0.2.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Ryuji Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Serizawa, Shigeru Ogawa, Hironori Ueno, Masahiro Doki, Yasuhiro Nishiyama
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Patent number: 8012407Abstract: A water box for use in cooling a hot rolled product in a rolling mill comprises a plurality of nozzles arranged sequentially along a first axis. The nozzles are subdivided into base and top sections, with the top sections being adjustable between closed positions coacting with the base sections to define tubular enclosures through which the product is directed, and open positions. A clamp support extends in parallel relationship to the first axis, and carries clamp members. An operating mechanism adjusts the clamp support between an open setting at which the clamp members are separated from the nozzle top sections and the nozzle top sections are adjustable to their open positions, and a closed setting at which the top sections are in their closed positions and the clamp members are in contact with and urge the top sections into their closed positions.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Palfreman, Brian Vallimont
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Patent number: 7976770Abstract: Diagnostic methods and systems are used to determine operating condition and performance of a cooling element in a metallurgical reactor during operation of the reactor. A system can include sensing means, processing means and display means. The sensing means is located in or approximate the cooling element for sensing operating conditions of the cooling element. The processing means is in communication with the sensing means for receiving data corresponding to the sensed operating conditions and for processing the data to determine a relative condition indicator of the cooling element. The display means is in communication with the processing means and displays the relative condition indicator to a user of the diagnostic system. The display means can display a first, second or third state representative of the relative health indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Hatch Ltd.Inventors: Terry Gerritsen, Aloysius Henry Gunnewiek
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Patent number: 7968046Abstract: An apparatus is described for cooling a metal strip (1), comprising at least two nozzle fields which are disposed opposite of each other with respect to the metal strip (1) conveyed continuously in its longitudinal direction and which comprise nozzles facing towards the respective strip surface and being attached to blowing boxes (3) for a cooling gas, and flow conduits (5) provided between the nozzles for discharging the cooling gas flows from the nozzles which are deflected on the surface of the strip.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Ebner Industrieofenbau Ges.m.b.HInventors: Peter Ebner, Gerald Eckertsberger
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Patent number: 7901617Abstract: A heat exchanger 10 includes a conduit 12 for conveying cooling fluid relative to a body to be cooled. A heat transfer arrangement 62 is arranged in communication with an interior of the conduit 12, the heat transfer arrangement 62 and the conduit 12 together defining an assembly that is mountable adjacent the body to be cooled, convective heat exchange occurring, in use, due to movement of the cooling fluid relative to the body and the heat transfer arrangement 62 of the assembly and radiant heat exchange occurring between the body and at least part of the heat transfer arrangement 62 of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2005Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Auckland Uniservices LimitedInventors: Mark P. Taylor, John J J Chen, Mohamed Farid, Robert John Wallace
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Patent number: 7850903Abstract: The invention relates to a tapping channel (1) for a metallurgical furnace, particularly for an electro-reducing furnace, comprised of at least one tapping brick (10, 11, 12) and of a cooling device in the vicinity of the tapping channel (1). The cooling device is provided in the form of a sleeve (14), which indirectly cools a tapping brick (2) and which at least partially surrounds the furnace wall (3) in the vicinity thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: SMS Siemag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl-Heinz Kummer, Horst-Dieter Borgwardt, Jürgen Kunze
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Patent number: 7785528Abstract: A guide system for signal lines includes a guide tube, through which the signal lines are guided, a cooling system which laterally surrounds the guide tube and has at least one coolant chamber and at least one inlet and at least one outlet for the coolant. The coolant chamber is tubular in construction and is hermetically sealed by a seal at least at one end face.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.Inventors: Robert Charles Whitaker, Andrew David Butler
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Patent number: 7718018Abstract: A method of cooling both surfaces of steel plate, which stably secures precision of cooling control from a start of cooling to an end so as to uniformly cool the top and bottom surfaces of the steel plate and thereby stably secures the steel plate quality and cools the steel plate down to a target temperature with a good precision. The method comprises dividing a steel plate cooling region into at least a spray impact part region and a spray non-impact part region, predicting a heat transfer coefficient for each divided region in advance, computing a predicted temperature history of the steel plate based on this predicted value, and setting and controlling amounts of sprayed coolant on the spray impact part regions by top and bottom surface nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Serizawa, Ryuji Yamamoto, Shigeru Ogawa
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Publication number: 20100038832Abstract: A tool is provided that is capable of friction stir processing, friction stir mixing, and friction stir welding of high melting temperature and low melting temperature materials, wherein the collar is now divided into at least an inner and an outer collar coupled to the shank and the FSW tip, wherein new thermal barriers enable expansion of the inner collar to be directed inward to thereby create compression on the FSW tip instead of allowing the FSW tip to become loose in the tool at elevated temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicants: SII MegaDiamond, Inc., Advanced Metal Products, Inc.Inventors: David Rosal, Scott M. Packer, Russell J. Steel, Peter Cariveau, John Williams, Lance Richman
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Publication number: 20100001442Abstract: An installation for the dry transformation of a material structure of semifinished products, particularly for dry bainitization, includes a quenching chamber and heating and/or cooling mechanism for setting the temperature prevailing on the inside of the quenching chamber, wherein the heating and/or cooling mechanism is developed as heating or cooling mechanism of a wall that borders on an inner chamber of the quenching chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventor: Bernhard Mueller
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Publication number: 20090315231Abstract: In a forming mold equipped with a cooling channel for circulation of a refrigerant composed of a cooling gas and a atomized cooling liquid, any increase of back pressure attributed to evaporation of the refrigerant fed to the cooling channel is inhibited to thereby attain cooling acceleration, and further any occurrence of rust or scale by the refrigerant circulated through the cooling channel is prevented. Accordingly, a channel for supply of the refrigerant to the cooling channel of the forming mold is provided with air pressure source for trapping of air in the supply channel and pressure feeding of the same; oxygen separation means for separation removal of oxygen from the pressure fed air to thereby lower the oxygen concentration of the air; and atomizing means for spraying of the cooling liquid into the air with oxygen concentration lowered.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventor: Yuichi Furukawa
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Patent number: 7625517Abstract: A cooling system for the distribution and collection of a fluid coolant in a metallurgical vessel used in the processing of molten materials. The cooling system comprises a distribution system including an intake manifold, a plurality of headers attached to the intake manifold, and a plurality of distribution dispensers positioned along each header. A collection system, including a collection manifold, is positioned to collect the fluid coolant. The distribution dispensers are positioned to direct the fluid coolant towards the collection manifold and utilize the majority of the kinetic energy contained within the coolant to direct the coolant towards the collection manifold.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.Inventors: Mark Thomas Arthur, J. Michael Campbell, Troy D. Ward
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Publication number: 20090194917Abstract: The present invention provides a steel plate cooling method, in controlled cooling of thick-gauge steel plate, which uniformly cools steel plate over its entire length and eliminates plate warping, that is, a method of conveying and cooling the top and bottom surfaces of steel plate in a high temperature state after hot rolling while constraining the high temperature rolled steel plate by a plurality of sets or top and bottom draining rolls, wherein cooling nozzles having a large number of nozzle openings and individually or simultaneously spraying the two fluids of air and water are used to cool the steel plate, the cooling method of steel plate characterized by giving a stable pattern by driving out air trying to invade the path of flow reaching the front end of the cooling apparatus when the water which is fed is low in amount or low in pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventor: Hironori Ueno
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Publication number: 20090160106Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention is a die casting apparatus and method evidencing increased apparatus output including the ability of using multiple die tools. The invention includes an indexing assembly removably engaged with at least one die block assembly for transporting between four stations, including an injection station, a cooling station, an ejection station, and a recovery station. The injection station includes a frame, a clamp assembly attached to the frame for clamping and releasing the die block assembly, a shot sleeve assembly engaged with the die block assembly for receiving molten material, such as metal, from a furnace means and injecting the molten material into the die block assembly, and a shot cylinder releasably coupled with the shot sleeve assembly for controlling the injection of molten material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Efficient Manufacturing System IntegrationInventors: Dave L. Graves, Gerard M. Hellebusch, Patrick Robert Meyer, John A. Yegge, SR., Phillip J. Dunk, Chad E. Pearia
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Publication number: 20090045557Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooling hot steel plate applied for controlled cooling of hot steel plate, obtained by hot rolling, while processing it constrained by constraining rolls and obtaining a steel material excellent and uniform in shape characteristics and provides a method of arranging and setting spray nozzles enabling uniform cooling in a direction perpendicular to processing and provides a method of arranging and setting spray nozzles of a spray cooling apparatus using two or more types of nozzles differing in amounts of water and spray regions to obtain a broad range of adjustment of amounts of water, wherein the spray nozzles are arranged so that a value of an n power of the impact pressures of the cooling water sprayed from the spray on the cooling surface integrated in the processing direction between pairs of constraining rolls becomes within ?20% of the highest value in the direction perpendicular to processing, where, 0.05?n?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Ryuji Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Serizawa, Shigeru Ogawa, Hironori Ueno, Masahiro Doki, Yasuhiro Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20080272525Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling element to be used in the structure of a pyromettalurgical reactor used in the manufacturing of metals, which cooling element comprises a housing element mainly made of copper, provided with a channel system for the cooling medium circulation, made of pipe that is mainly made of copper; on the outer surface of the pipes forming the channel system, there is arranged a coating that has a lower melting point than the material of the housing element and the pipe. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the cooling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2006Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: OUTOTEC OYJInventors: Kai Seppala, Jyrki Koitto, Risto Saarinen
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Patent number: 7357894Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a hot rolled steel strip including a transfer means comprising transfer rolls to feed a steel strip which has been hot rolled by a finishing mill; a cooling means for cooling the steel strip; and accompanying rolls arranged with a clearance over the thickness of the steel strip at a position where the accompanying rolls face the transfer rolls through the steel strip to be transferred. The accompanying rolls rotate at nearly an equal peripheral speed as the transfer rolls or at a peripheral speed greater than the transfer speed of the steel strip.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Akio Fujibayashi, Sadanori Imada, Yoshimichi Hino, Toru Minote, Yoichi Motoyashiki, Shozo Ikemune
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Patent number: 7328598Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cooling rolling stock within the cooling stretch of a rolling mil, especially a hat-strip mill, whereby water spray devices are stationarily mounted below the rolling stock between rollers (10) of a roller train (1) and spray bars (3) held on support levers (16) are arranged above the rolling stock. The support levers are held be a tubular, rotationally driven and water-fed articulated tube (15) that extends in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the roller train. The device is further provided with a central water feed tube and an automatic control device with associated on/off valves for switching the cooling water on and off. The aim of the invention is to improve a device of the aforementioned kind in such a manner that the maximum cooling capacity to be obtained is increased while the length of the roller train required therefor is reduced, thereby attaining a compact design and high cooling capacity.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Ulrich Cramer, Martin Braun