Cooling section for a steel strip continuous annealing or galvanizing line arranged to handle a metal strip (1), said section comprising at least one area (2) for dry cooling set up to project gas on said steel strip and at least one wet cooling area (5) set up to project a liquid or a mixture of gas and liquid on said steel strip.

A method for monitoring a manufacturing of a metal product, the metal product being manufactured according to a manufacturing process, is implemented by an electronic monitoring device. This method includes acquiring (100) a measured value of at least one representative parameter, each representative parameter being a parameter relating to the metal product or a parameter relating to the manufacturing process, determining (130) a status of the metal product among a compliant status and an analysis status, depending on the at least one acquired value and on at least one target, and when the determined status is the analysis status, computing (150) a corrective action to be applied to the product, among a set of corrective actions and depending on the at least one acquired value, the set of corrective actions including a product repair, a product downgrading, a product expertise and a product acceptance.

An apparatus for controlling coating weight coated on a strip by using an air knife disposed in a travelling direction of the strip in a continuous plating process in which the strip is dipped in a molten metal pot and is coated includes: a prediction model unit including a prediction model in which a neural network is trained with accumulated operation conditions; and an optimum air knife condition calculation unit configured to derive an absolute value of at least one of an air knife gap and an air knife pressure by using the prediction model based on an input operation condition.

A surface temperature measuring method includes: acquiring a radiation light amount of a surface of a measurement object; irradiating the surface of the measurement object with light under a specular reflection condition to acquire a specular reflection light amount; irradiating the surface of the measurement object with light under a diffuse reflection condition to acquire a diffuse reflection light amount; calculating an emissivity of the surface of the measurement object by using a model indicating a relationship between an emissivity and a specular reflectance, and a relationship between the emissivity and a diffuse reflectance of the surface of the measurement object, the acquired specular reflection light amount, and the acquired diffuse reflection light amount; and calculating a surface temperature of the measurement object using the acquired radiation light amount and the calculated emissivity.

A system and method for affecting the crossbow in a metal sheet in continuous coating process. The system comprises strip distance sensors for determining distances to the metal sheet. A controller is configured to adjust the position of the correcting roll, based on the strip distances, to affect the crossbow in the sheet to help control the thickness of the coating on the sheet. The system may comprise a crossbow model to help determine the new correcting roll position. The distances determined by the strip distance sensors may be also be used to adjust the position of the air knives.

The invention relates to a method for patinating zinc surfaces of a structural element, including the steps of: providing a structural element with a zinc surface in a housing; providing an atmosphere around the zinc surface, wherein said atmosphere comprises carbon based gas and humidity; and heating the zinc surface for at least one hour, to provide a patinated zinc surface. The heating of the zinc surface occurs by heating the atmosphere to a temperature of at least 50° C., the humidity is at least 70%, and the carbon-based gas concentration is at least 5% by volume. The invention also relates to a patinated evaporative condenser in a closed-circuit cooling tower The patinated evaporative condenser in a closed-circuit cooling tower is by the method according to the invention. A system for patinating zinc surfaces according to the invention is also disclosed.

The invention relates to a method for coating a metal strip with the aid of a coating device. Within the coating device, the strip first runs through a coating container with a liquid coating agent and then a stripping nozzle device for stripping off excess coating agent from the surface of the strip. After the stripping nozzle device, the strip typically runs through a strip stabilizing device with a plurality of magnets on both broad sides of the strip. A form control deviation is determined as the difference between a determined actual form of the strip and a specified desired form of the strip and this form control deviation is used for activating the magnets of the strip stabilizing device in order to transform the actual form of the strip into the desired form. As an alternative possibility for producing a moment, in particular a bending moment, in the strip, on the basis of the form control deviation the magnets of the strip stabilizing device 130 are moved in the widthwise direction R of the strip 200 into a traversing position in relation to the magnets on the respectively opposite broad side of the strip.

An apparatus for the continuous hot dip coating of a metal strip is provided. The apparatus includes a vessel intended to contain a liquid metal bath, a bottom roller and a displacement casing for the metal strip. The casing includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion includes a pouring box delimiting at least two liquid metal pouring compartments. Each pouring compartment is inwardly delimited by an inner wall including an upper rim. The casing is provided with the pouring box, is rotatable relative to the metal strip around a first rotation axis and the pouring box is rotatable relative to the upper portion of the casing around a second rotation axis. A method for coating the metal sheet is also provided.

An apparatus for treating a metal strip after it has exited from a coating container with a liquid coating material, for example zinc is provided. The apparatus includes a blow-off device arranged above the coating container having an air outlet gap for blowing off excess parts of the still liquid coating material from the surface of the metal strip after the passing of the metal strip through the coating container. An electromagnetic stabilizer is arranged above the blow-off device and has a plurality of individual magnets for stabilizing the metal strip after leaving the coating container and the blow-off device. In order to further increase the efficiency of the apparatus, at least some of the magnets of the stabilizer are formed as pot magnets with pot coils.

What is provided is a novel and improved dross removal device capable of more efficiently collecting a bath surface dross using a dross robot, and a dross removal method.

In order to solve the problem, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dross removal device including: a dross robot that is configured to collect a bath surface dross present on a bath surface of a coating bath; a dross sensor that is configured to measure an intensity of infrared light from the bath surface of the coating bath; a dross sensor control device that is configured to specify a position of the bath surface dross according to a temporal change amount in the intensity of the infrared light; and a dross robot control device that is configured to cause the dross robot to collect the bath surface dross at the position specified by the dross sensor control device.