A heater and/or cooler chamber includes a heat storage block or chunk. In the block a multitude of parallel, stacked slit pockets are each dimensioned to accommodate a single plate shaped workpiece. Workpiece handling openings of the slit pockets are freed and respectively covered by a door arrangement. The slit pockets are tailored to snugly surround the plate shaped workpieces therein so as to establish an efficient heat transfer between the heat storage block or chunk and the workpieces to be cooled or heated.

A heater and/or cooler chamber includes a heat storage block or chunk. In the block a multitude of parallel, stacked slit pockets are each dimensioned to accommodate a single plate shaped workpiece. Workpiece handling openings of the slit pockets are freed and respectively covered by a door arrangement. The slit pockets are tailored to snugly surround the plate shaped workpieces therein so as to establish an efficient heat transfer between the heat storage block or chunk and the workpieces to be cooled or heated.

One embodiment is a cooling system for regulating temperature of a surface of a metallurgical furnace. The cooling system includes a plurality of spray conduits. Each spray conduit has one or more control valves and has a plurality of nozzles. A plurality of temperature sensors are disposed proximate the surface of the metallurgical furnace. A control system adjusts the control valves of the plurality of spray conduits in response to temperature information derived from the plurality of temperature sensors.

One embodiment is a cooling system for regulating temperature of a surface of a metallurgical furnace. The cooling system includes a plurality of spray conduits. Each spray conduit has one or more control valves and has a plurality of nozzles. A plurality of temperature sensors are disposed proximate the surface of the metallurgical furnace. A control system adjusts the control valves of the plurality of spray conduits in response to temperature information derived from the plurality of temperature sensors.

Disclosed herein is a metallurgical furnace and roof having a drain system. The roof has a roof body comprising a top surface having a center opening, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and an outer sidewall connecting the top surface to the bottom surface. The outer sidewall, the bottom surface and the top surface define an interior portion. An internal spray cooling system is disposed in the interior portion of the body. A drain system is integral with the body. The drain system has a roof evacuation conduit disposed outside the interior portion and configured to collect spay coolant from the interior portion of the body. The drain system additionally has a drain box having a vent and an exit pipe, wherein the roof evacuation conduit channels spent coolant by gravity into the drain box which is evacuated under gravity by the exit pipe.

Disclosed herein is a metallurgical furnace and roof having a drain system. The roof has a roof body comprising a top surface having a center opening, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and an outer sidewall connecting the top surface to the bottom surface. The outer sidewall, the bottom surface and the top surface define an interior portion. An internal spray cooling system is disposed in the interior portion of the body. A drain system is integral with the body. The drain system has a roof evacuation conduit disposed outside the interior portion and configured to collect spay coolant from the interior portion of the body. The drain system additionally has a drain box having a vent and an exit pipe, wherein the roof evacuation conduit channels spent coolant by gravity into the drain box which is evacuated under gravity by the exit pipe.

A plant for the treatment and recovery of white slag resulting from steelmaking processes. The plant including at least one basic frame; at least one work chamber, movable in rotation around a relevant axis and configured to receive and treat the white slag, the latter being moved forward along at least one direction of treatment. The work chamber including at least one loading portion through which said white slag is loaded; at least one cooling portion arranged downstream of said loading portion and comprising at least one treatment channel of said white slag; and cooling device/structure/component/or the like comprising at least one coolant to cool said white slag to obtain at least one recovery powder; and at least one sorting and separation portion of the recovery powder arranged.

A plant to produce metal products, and a corresponding management method, where the plant includes a production line which includes a plurality of operating units, each provided with respective hydraulic circuits, selected from a melting unit, a casting unit, a rolling unit and a cooling treatment apparatus, and a water supply unit having a tank for the water connected to each of the hydraulic circuits and a plurality of water feed devices configured to feed water from the tank to respective hydraulic circuits.

A plant to produce metal products, and a corresponding management method, where the plant includes a production line which includes a plurality of operating units, each provided with respective hydraulic circuits, selected from a melting unit, a casting unit, a rolling unit and a cooling treatment apparatus, and a water supply unit having a tank for the water connected to each of the hydraulic circuits and a plurality of water feed devices configured to feed water from the tank to respective hydraulic circuits.

One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. The burner panel has a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a left surface, a right surface, and a front surface surrounding an interior burner area. A spray-cool system disposed in the interior area. A burner tube at least partially disposed in the interior burner area and extends into the front surface. The burner tube is configured to accept a burner.