Cooling box for a shaft furnace
AssigneesPaul Wurth S.A., Paul Wurth Italia S.P.A.
InventorsStefano Olivieri, Lorenzo Micheletti, Fabio Cravino
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Abstract
A cooling box for a metallurgical furnace including an elongated hollow body extending from a front end, to an opposite rear end, the rear end being, in use, connected to a wall of the furnace; the body includes an inner chamber having a cooling circuit configured to receive a flow of coolant fluid therein between at least one inlet and at least one outlet; the cooling box further including at least one partition plate fitted in the inner chamber through a form-fit connection to form the cooling circuit.
Claims9
A cooling box for a metallurgical furnace comprising:
- an elongated hollow body extending from a front end, to an opposite rear end, said rear end being, in use, connected to a wall of the furnace;
- the body having external walls comprising a top wall, an opposite bottom wall, and peripheral walls connecting edges of the top and bottom walls of the body;
- the body further comprising an inner chamber having a cooling circuit configured to receive a flow of coolant fluid therein between at least one inlet and at least one outlet;
- said cooling box further comprising at least one partition plate fitted in the inner chamber through a form-fit connection to form said cooling circuit, wherein the at least one partition plate extends from the top wall to the bottom wall;
- the top and bottom walls respectively comprising at least one elongated slot facing one another to receive the at least one partition plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.