Rotary hearth furnace
AssigneeKobe Steel, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiko Tetsumoto, Sumito Hashimoto, Hiroshi Sugitatsu
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Abstract
To provide a rotary hearth furnace which has a simple furnace structure in which the furnace is not damaged even if the furnace is operated for a long term while presenting general equations capable of adequately determining a thermal expansion margin in the rotary hearth furnace.
Claims4
A rotary hearth furnace in which a rotary hearth being arranged between an outer circumference wall and an inner circumference wall includes an annular hearth frame, a hearth heat insulating material arranged on the hearth frame, a plurality of refractories arranged on the hearth heat insulating material, an outer circumference side corner refractory arranged to an outer circumference part of the rotary hearth through a first hearth curb casting, and an inner circumference side corner refractory arranged to an inner circumference part of the rotary hearth through a second hearth curb casting;
- wherein
- between the corner refractory of the outer circumference side or the inner circumference side and an outermost or innermost refractory, respectively, or between each of the plurality of refractories, a radius direction thermal expansion margin X defined by the following equation 2 is set, and
- if a width of the outer circumference side corner refractory is given as A and a height of the first hearth curb casting of the outer circumference side corner refractory is given as B, the following equation 1 is satisfied:
- X+A<√(A2+B2) Equation 1
- X=([X0=] a distance between an outer end part of the first hearth curb casting and an inner end part of the second hearth curb casting at an operation temperature)−([X1=] a total of lengths of the plurality of refractories and both corner refractories in a radius direction at a room temperature) Equation 2.
A rotary hearth furnace in which a rotary hearth being arranged between an outer circumference wall and an inner circumference wall includes an annular hearth frame, a hearth heat insulating material arranged on the hearth frame, a plurality of refractories arranged on the hearth heat insulating material, an outer circumference side corner refractory arranged to an outer circumference part of the rotary hearth through a first hearth curb casting, and an inner circumference side corner refractory arranged to an inner circumference part of the rotary hearth through a second hearth curb casting;
- wherein
- the inner circumference side corner refractory is divided into a plurality of pieces in the circumferential direction, a circumferential direction thermal expansion margin Y is set between the divided inner circumference side corner refractory pieces, and while the circumferential direction thermal expansion margin Y is defined by the following equation 4, an inner circumference length L1 and an outer circumference length L2 of the one divided inner circumference side corner refractory satisfy the following equation 3:
- L2>L1+2y Equation 3
- wherein y=Y/n and n denotes the number of pieces of the divided inner circumference side corner refractory,
- Y=([a total of] lengths of inner circumference side corner refractories contacting a hearth curb casting at a contact surface side at an operation temperature)−(a total of lengths of each of divided inner circumference side corner refractories contacting a hearth curb casting at a contact surface side at a room temperature) Equation 4.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.