861results about "Handling discharged material" patented technology

A thermal treatment apparatus includes a processing container, a substrate holding unit for holding a plurality of substrates at predetermined intervals in a direction inside the processing container, a heating unit for heating the processing container, a supply unit for supplying gas, a plurality of supply ports provided respectively at different locations in the direction, and a cooling unit for cooling the processing container by supplying the gas into the processing container by the supply unit via each of the supply ports, wherein the supply unit is provided in such a way that the supply unit independently controls flow rates of the gases supplied via each of the supply ports.

A method and apparatus for heat treating a photovoltaic device. The apparatus includes a heating module, a processing module, and a cooling module in which the operating temperatures of the modules may be controlled separately. The heating module is configured to pre-heat a substrate and stabilize the substrate at the desired target temperature, the processing module is configured to thermally process the substrate, and the cooling module is configured for post-treatment cooling of the substrate.

A substrate heat treatment apparatus includes a heat-treating plate having a flat upper surface, support devices formed of a heat-resistant resin for contacting and supporting a substrate, a seal device disposed annularly for rendering gastight a space formed between the substrate and heat-treating plate, and exhaust bores for exhausting gas from the space. The support devices are formed of resin, and the upper surface of the heat-treating plate is made flat, whereby a reduced difference in the rate of heat transfer occurs between contact parts and non-contact parts on the surface of the substrate. Consequently, the substrate is heat-treated effectively while suppressing variations in heat history over the surface of the substrate.

A method and apparatus for treating a selected region of a metal layer, used to form a metal card, by annealing the selected metal region so the selected region becomes soft and ductile, while the rest of the metal layer remains stiff. The softened, ductile, selected metal region can be embossed with reduced power and with reduced wear and tear on the embossing equipment. Alternatively, the annealed metal layer can undergo additional processing steps to form an assembly which can then be embossed. The method may include the use of a fixture for holding the metal layer, with the fixture having a window region for enabling heat to be applied to soften the region of the metal layer within the window region. The fixture includes apparatus for cooling the portion of the metal layer outside of the window region and for preventing the temperature of the metal layer outside the window region from rising above predetermined limits.

A solder reflow oven for the processing of ball grid array substrates bearing solder balls is described, comprising: input means for introducing substrates into the oven, a processing chamber within which the substrates are subject to a solder reflow process, and output means for discharging substrates from the oven for further processing or handling, and means for transferring the substrates through the processing chamber in a first direction towards the output means. The processing chamber comprises a plurality of heating and cooling zones arranged with a constant pitch in the first direction, and the transferring means is adapted to move the substrates in the first direction in stages, with each component moving a distance equal to the pitch between two zones in each stage, whereby the components are moved from zone to zone in stages. In addition each block of each heating zone and each block of each cooling zone is connected to a source of fresh gas, and each block of each heating zone is provided with means for heating the gas, and each block of each cooling zone is provided with means for cooling the gas, and each block is formed with a serpentine channel between the source of fresh gas and at least one opening through which the gas is discharged from the block towards a substrate.

The invention relates to the physical heat recovery field of solid high temperature materials. The system can be applied in the waste heat recovery of extra-large high-temperature particles such as high-temperature sintering ore and the like and the process is as follows: the high-temperature sintering ore from a sintering machine falls into a cold sinter furnace through a feeding system, gradually falls with ore discharge and enters a cooling section to radiate heat. The cooled sintering ore enters a vibrator feeder discharging system through a blanking hopper and a regulating gate. The process can be adopted to cool the sintering ore from about 700-800 DEG C to about 100 DEG C. Cold air provided by an air blower enters the cold sinter furnace through an air inlet and a blast cap, absorbs heat in the cooling section and then enters an annular channel, the high-temperature gas from the annular channel enters a waste heat boiler through a dust remover, the heat is transferred to a working medium and then pumped by the draft fan through the dust remover, and the gas is discharged in a chimney when reaching the dedusting standard. The heat-absorbing working medium (usually water) is converted to superheated steam with a certain parameter in the waste heat boiler to do work in a turbine and drive a generator to generate power. Dead steam after doing work enters a condenser and is sent back to the waste heat boiler through a circulating water pump, thus, a thermal cycle is completed.

The present invention discloses an improved rotary forced-air cooler, which comprises a double layer trolley, a supporting beam structure, a material blocking proof air duct sealing plate arranged at the connecting part of the double layer trolley and an air supplying system, a double layer trolley unit static seal device and an air duct device. The supplying system structure is based on a rectangular beam, a triangle beam is arranged on the rectangular beam, and a plurality of ventilation channels are arranged on the bevel edge steel plates at the both waists; an air duct pipe is arranged on the air vent of the material blocking proof air duct sealing plate, an inclined plate inclining upwards from the air vent at the bottom part of the air duct pipe has a transition to a horizontal plate, a stopping ventilation fence is added to the air duct pipe at the side of the trolley; two rubber sealing parts with extended bottom edges are arranged at the outer sides of the lower parts of inner and outer sealing plates of the double layer trolley unit static seal device, an ash baffle plate which can move up and down is hung at the inner side; an air water sealing wave subduing device adopting a damping plate is arranged on the air duct device. The present invention further improves the sealing performance of the equipment, and reduces energy consumption and pollution.

A method of solidifying a steel-making slag is performed by subjecting a mixture of a steel-making slag containing at least about 50% by weight of a powdery steel-making slag having a particle size not greater than about 5 mm and a substance containing at least about 30% by weight of SiO2 (e.g., a fly ash and/or the fine powder of a granulated blast furnace slag) to a hydration reaction. The resulting solidified material contains at least about 20% of a tobermorite phase, has high strength and is suitable as an inorganic material useful as a roadbed material, building and civil engineering materials, etc.

The invention provides a low mass and size thermal focusing device for a gas phase analytical device. The device has two or more plates bonded together. The device also has at least one channel with an entrance and exit is formed within allowing ingress and egress of a gas stream. The device also has a temperature reduction module in thermal contact with at least one plate of the device. Thermal focusing devices with additional plates and/or channels are also disclosed.

A substrate thermal processing system. The system has at least one substrate holding module having a housing configured for holding an isolated environment therein. A substrate heater is located in the housing and has a substrate heating surface. A substrate cooler is located in the housing and having a substrate cooling surface. A gas feed opening into the housing and feeding inert or reducing gas into the housing when the substrate is heated by the heating surface. A gas restrictor is within the housing restricting the fed gas between the substrate heating surface and a surrounding atmospheric region substantially surrounding the substrate heating surface in the housing and forming an aperture through which the fed gas communicates with the atmospheric region.

An improved method and apparatus for cooling the under-car channel of a tunnel kiln while minimizing migration of air between the above-car and under-car channels involves controlling or equalizing the mass flow of cooling air directed through the under-car channel and in particular through individual undercarriage cooling zones which can match individual heating zones of the tunnel kiln.

An object of the present invention is to perform temperature setting of a heating plate so that a wafer is uniformly heated in an actual heat processing time. The temperature of a wafer is measured during a heat processing period from immediately after a temperature measuring wafer is mounted on the heating plate to the time when the actual heat processing time elapses. Whether the uniformity in temperature within the wafer is allowable or not is determined from the temperature of the wafer in the heat processing period, and if the determination result is negative, a correction value for a temperature setting parameter of the heating plate is calculated using a correction value calculation model from the measurement result, and the temperature setting parameter is changed.

A heat treatment table is divided into two or more regions, a heater is disposed for each region. On a predetermined portion of the heat treatment table, a plurality of sensors are disposed separately each other. A relation between temperatures of the respective portions on the heat treatment table and temperatures detected by the sensors is grasped in advance, thereby enables to surmise a temperature of the respective portion of the heat treatment table from the temperature detected by the sensors. In the case of an wafer being actually treated by placing on the heat treatment table, the temperatures detected by the sensors are observed, from these detected temperatures, the temperatures of the respective portions on the heat treatment table, that is, temperatures affecting the wafer, are surmised.

A method and an apparatus (50) for producing direct reduced iron (37) from dry pellets (25) composed of iron oxide and carbonaceous material. A mixture of pellets (25) and free coke particles (38) with weight relation from 3:1 to 5:1 is fed into the top of an electrothermal fluidized bed (32) that is fluidized by nitrogen. By exposing pellets (25) in the electrothermal fluidized bed (32) to temperatures of between approximately 850-1,100° C. for an average period of between approximately 15-60 minutes, the volatiles are removed and the pellets (25) metallized. Reduced pellets (37) mixed with free coke (38) are discharged from the bottom of fluidized bed (32) and cooled. The reduced iron pellets (37) are physically separated from any free coke (38) and the free coke (38) is recycled back into the fluidized bed (32).

The invention discloses a sintered ore cooling furnace device. The device is composed of a pre-storage area, an annular air flue area, a chute area, a cooling area and an air chamber. High-temperature sintered ores are continuously and evenly distributed into a cooling furnace for cooling through a charging port above the pre-storage area by a material distribution device, high-temperature sintered ores are subjected to counter-flow heat exchange with low-temperature air blown from the bottom of the furnace in the cooling area of the cooling furnace, sintered ores are cooled to below 180 DEG C, low-temperature ores are discharged by a discharging device, the low-temperature air is heated to about 600 DEG C through counter-flow heat exchange and enters a waste heat recycling system through an air outlet, and hot air and hot sintered ores are effectively sealed inside the cooling furnace in the whole process. By the aid of the device, on the premise that the quality of sintered ores is guaranteed or improved and the return fine rate is reduced, the efficiency of recycling of waste heat of sintered ores is improved to the maximum extent.

The invention discloses a vertical cooling and waste heat recovery furnace for sinters, which comprises a feeding hopper and a discharge hopper, wherein the feeding hopper and the discharge hopper are respectively communicated with the top and the bottom of a cooling chamber; first and second air ducts are sequentially sleeved in the cooling chamber; the walls of the first and second air ducts are respectively provided with a plurality of air outlet holes; the top of the first air duct is provided with a cone distributor; the bottom of the second air duct is communicated with a cold air inlet pipe; the cooling chamber is provided with an inner sleeve; a plurality of vent holes are distributed in the wall of the inner sleeve; a hot air collecting cavity is formed between the inner sleeve and a housing of the cooling chamber; the upper part of the hot air collecting cavity is communicated with a hot waste gas exhaust pipe; and the bottom of the hot air collecting cavity is communicated with the discharge hopper. The invention provides a cooling system integrating sinter cooling with closed hot flue gas recovery and waste heat utilization; the vertical cooling and waste heat recovery furnace for the sinters operates under a negative pressure in the cooling process; emission of pollutants can be greatly reduced; the field environment is improved; and the heat recovery rate is improved.

The invention discloses a water-sealed circular cooler which mainly aims at solving the problem of poor sealing effect of the existing circular cooler. The water-sealed circular cooler comprises a cooler body, a rotation system, a trolley, a blower system and water-sealed device, wherein the rotation system is arranged on the cooler body, and comprises a rotation power drive device and a rotationframework driven to rotate by the rotation power drive device; the trolley is arranged on the rotation framework; the blower system is arranged below the rotation framework, and comprises a blower and an air box arranged between the air outlet of the blower and the rotation framework; the water-sealed device is composed of two sets of water-sealed parts having the same structure, and the two setsof water-sealed parts are respectively arranged at the outer ring side and the inner ring side of the annular rotation track of the trolley and/or rotation framework and are positioned between the air box and the trolley and/or rotation framework; each water-sealed part comprises a water tank and a sealing plate; and the water tank is fixed on the cooler body, one end of the sealing plate is inserted in the water tank, and the other end is fixed below the trolley and/or the rotation framework.

The invention relates to a waste heat recovery device and a waste heat recovery method during condensation of molten calcium carbide. The device comprises a heat collector, a heat pipe exchanger, a duster, a fan and a feed water pump, wherein the heat collector is a closed box arranged on calcium carbide pot transport trolley tracks; sealing doors are arranged at the two ends of the box; a heat insulating material is arranged outside the box; a membrane wall pipe is arranged at the top of the box and on the inner faces of two side walls; a water inlet and a water outlet of the membrane wall pipe are connected with the feed water pump and a water inlet of a heat exchange pipe of the heat pipe exchanger respectively; an air suction port and an air inlet are formed at the lower part of the box; an air outlet is formed at one end of the box; an air inlet of the heat pipe exchanger is connected with an air outlet of the heat collector; an air outlet of the heat pipe exchanger is connected with the duster; the duster is connected with the fan; the fan is connected with an air inlet of the heat collector; the heat pipe exchanger is provided with a steam port; and the steam port supplies gas to a user. The device and the method have the benefits that heat exchange effects of radiation and convection are made full use of, the efficiency is high, the gas is purified, the cooling time is shortened, and the production cost is lowered.

A crucible apparatus includes a hollow crucible body which is open at its upper and lower ends and a bottom plate which is formed separately from the crucible body and can close off the lower end of the crucible body. A space for receiving a molten material is formed by placing the crucible body atop the bottom plate. When molten material received in the space has solidified, the crucible body is raised off the bottom plate, and solidified material is pushed out of one end of the crucible body and removed from the crucible body.

Disclosed is a process for calcining active blending material involving feeding material outside of a kiln head and the blending material obtained. The process comprises feeding material from outside of kiln head of rotary kiln into inside of kiln hood and to grate cooler, wherein the material is coal gangue, shale, clay, peat, mud and the like which can form active cement component through low temperature calcining, and calcining the material at low temperature. Disclosed also is a cement production apparatus for carrying out the process provided, comprising feeder nose(s) provided on the kiln hood and/or grate cooler for feeding the material.

The invention provides a production process and a system of ultralow NOx emission of pellet flue gas. A set of flue gas circulation system is additionally arranged, the flue gas discharged from an airdraft drying section is taken as cooling air to be further conveyed to an air inlet of an annual cooling two-section, meanwhile, a reducing agent is sprayed at the top located at the annular coolingtwo-section, the reducing agent reacts with NOx in the flue gas subjected to the annular cooling two-section, and SNCR denitration is realized; and or the gas discharged from an air outlet of the annular colling two-section is conveyed to a preheating one-section of a chain grate machine after passing through a SNCR treatment system; the high-temperature characteristic of discharging the flue gasfrom the air draft drying section is utilized, meanwhile, the condition of high-temperature sintering ore in the annual colling two-section is utilized, and the part of the flue gas is treated by adopting the SNCR. By the adoption of the technical means, an enterprise atmospheric pollutant emission limit value on the production pressure of pellet roasting equipment requirements can be reduced to acertain extent, and the process and the system have the characteristics of being decreasd in investment, low in operation cost and remarkable in NOx emission reduction effect.

An apparatus for supporting a workpiece in a process chamber is provided, comprising a first “hot” chuck having a surface for supporting the workpiece, the hot chuck including electrical heating elements for heating the hot chuck, and a second “cold” chuck having a fluid path formed therein for circulating a thermal transfer fluid. The cold chuck can be selectively moveable towards and away from the hot chuck to vary a rate of heat transfer between the hot chuck and the cold chuck.

The invention relates to a temperature detection and control device, in particular to a material temperature detection and control device for a sintering pellet annular cooler. The material temperature detection and control device comprises the annular cooler and an annular cooler discharge hopper communicated with the tail of the annular cooler, and is characterized by further comprising more than one infrared thermometer arranged above an annular cooler discharge opening by a heat insulation bracket, wherein the infrared thermometers are connected with a control device, and spray pipes are arranged above the tail of the annular cooler and above the annular cooler discharge hopper respectively. The material temperature detection and control device has the benefits that in a sintering pellet cooling process, a cooled material temperature field at the tail of the annular cooler is indirectly monitored by the infrared thermometers, and after a temperature is within a set range, corresponding movement protection is conducted by contrast judgment of a temperature control device. In addition, a discharge temperature of the annular cooler can be effectively controlled within a safe range, so that damage or ignition of an adhesive tape machine due to the excess temperature is avoided, and equipment damage, economic losses and casualties due to the excess temperature are avoided.

The invention relates to a high-temperature material vertical cooler and a waste heat using system. The high-temperature material vertical cooler comprises a cylindrical machine body supported by a support, the lower portion of the machine body is a cold air input section, the middle portion of the machine body is a cooling section, and the upper portion of the machine body is a material input section. In the cooling section, materials are cooled by means of combination of air draft and air blowing, heat of the high-temperature materials is obtained by cooling air and a cooling pipe by means of heat conduction and conversion, and preheating is conducted on circulating water through a water cooling wall; the high-temperature cooling air is used for overheating steam generated by the vertical cooler and after the temperature of the cooling air is decreased, the cooling air is led to preheat sintering raw materials in a sintering machine; after air heated by a condenser is mixed with the cold air and the air is led to a central funnel cap; steam generated by the vertical cooler is led to a turbine to drive an electric generator to generate power after passing through a steam super-heater; water output by the condenser and a steam pocket is led to a deoxidizing machine for deoxidization and then is led to a water cooling wall so that circulation can be achieved. The high-temperature material vertical cooler is compact in structure, capable of greatly reducing air leakage of a system, guaranteeing the quality of the materials and effectively recycling the waste heat of the high-temperature materials in a stepped mode.

The invention discloses a liquid molten slag dry-type centrifugal granulation and afterheat recycle system having molten slag buffer-storage and flow control functions. The system comprises a molten slag buffer-storage and flow control unit, a granulation unit, a mobile bed unit and an afterheat utilization unit; the molten slag buffer-storage and flow control unit is arranged at the upper part ofthe granulation unit and is used for buffer-storage of the liquid molten slag and controlling the flow rate and speed of the liquid molten slag falling to the granulation unit; the granulation unit is used for granulating the falling liquid molten slag; the mobile bed unit is arranged at the lower part of the granulation unit and is used for cooling and temporarily storing the granulated molten slag; hot air inside the granulation unit and the mobile bed unit communicates with the afterheat utilization unit; and the afterheat utilization unit comprises a hot air flue, a primary dust collector, an afterheat boiler, a secondary dust collector, an exhaust fan and a chimney which are arranged in sequence. The system disclosed by the invention does not use water resources, is free of environmental pollution, can effectively recycle high-quality afterheat resources contained in the high-temperature liquid molten slag, and can meet the urgent requirements of energy conservation and emissionreduction of the present steel and iron industry.

A biomass-mixed-firing pulverized coal fired boiler includes: a furnace for burning biomass fuel together with pulverized coal in a mixed state; a pulverized coal burner for supplying the pulverized coal into the furnace; a biomass burner for supplying the biomass fuel into the furnace; a biomass mill for milling the biomass fuel to be supplied to the biomass burner; a dry clinker processing unit provided below the furnace and including a clinker conveyor for carrying ashes discharged from the furnace at a furnace bottom; and a combustion-air supply unit for supplying combustion air toward the ashes discharged at the furnace bottom on the clinker conveyor, thereby to burn an unburned component of the biomass fuel contained in the ashes discharged at the furnace bottom on the clinker conveyor.

A gas cooling type vacuum heat-treating furnace according to the present invention, includes a gas cooling furnace comprising a cooling chamber in which an article to be heat-treated is stationarily set, and defining therein a gas passage in a vertical direction, a gas cooling and circulating device for cooling and circulating gas flowing in the cooling chamber, a gas direction switching device for alternately changing over directions of gas vertically passing through the cooling chamber, and upper and lower straighteners blocking upper and lower ends of the cooling chamber, for causing a velocity distribution of the gas to be uniform.

A method and an apparatus for the thermal treatment of metallic workpieces with which gas quenching can be obtained that is low in distortion, even for workpieces with an undulating shape or workpieces that are projectingly stackable are provided. In accordance with the method, after being heated the workpieces are cooled in a quenching chamber with a quenching gas, whereby the quenching gas is intentionally caused to flow around the workpieces by means of guide channels that have a closed lateral surface and that enclose the workpieces along the direction of flow of the quenching gas. The apparatus comprises a quenching chamber in which the workpieces can be cooled with a quenching gas, and wherein guide channels are provided to ensure that the quenching gas flows around the workpieces, the guide channels having a closed lateral surface and enclosing the workpieces along the direction of flow of the quenching gas.

An electric resistance high temperature vacuum furnace having radiant heating units evenly spaced around the sides and ends of the furnace hot zone. Pairs of units are automatically regulated both radially and longitudinally according to the temperature required by the workload in the hot zone. The units each comprise parallel aligned elements electrically connected in series at their one ends. Each element has lengthwise surfaces angularly disposed from each other to form a beam structure of high section modulus for stiffness and resistance to sagging. Also, the angles of the element surfaces facing a heat-reflective assembly substantially enable all of the energy radiated toward the assembly to be reflected into the hot zone in addition to the direct radiation from the surfaces facing the hot zone. The furnace includes a re-circulating cooling system for rapid cooling of the furnace and workload. An inert cooling fluid bypasses the hot zone, passing instead around the outside of the heat assembly and through a heat exchanger until the circulated fluid temperature drops below the maximum tolerated by all component parts in the cooling system, after which the fluid passes directly through the hot zone.

The invention discloses a sintering machine or a sintering cooler and a flexible seal equipment thereof, which can reduce the power consumption of blowers, decrease the air leakage of the equipment, increase the waste heat recovery efficiency and improve the environment. The sintering cooler comprises a sinter-loading trolley, an overhead hood above the trolley, a bellows below the trolley, an upper flexible seal device arranged between the hood and the upper part of the trolley, and a lower flexible seal device or a lower lamination seal device arranged between the lower part of the trolley and the bellows; wherein, the slideway of the bellows is glidingly contacted with a flexible slide plate of the trolley; the upper flexible seal device is used to seal the gap between the hood and the upper part of the trolley; and the lower flexible seal device or the lower lamination seal device is used to seal the gap between the lower part of the trolley and the bellows.