A heat treatment apparatus 1 includes a coolant passage defining body 42 to define a coolant passage 48 to supply a coolant to a workpiece 100. The coolant passage defining body 42 includes an upper member 50 and a lower member 40 as a plurality of coolant passage defining members, and is configured so that, by displacing these members 49 and 50 so as to approach each other along an up-down direction Z1 crossing a conveyance direction, the coolant passage 48 is defined in a state housing the workpiece 100. In addition, the coolant passage defining body is configured so that, by displacing the members 49 and 50 described above so as to separate from each other along the up-down direction Z1, the workpiece 100 is allowed to be let into and out of the coolant passage 48 along the conveyance direction A1.

A kiln and method for firing basic ceramic articles; the kiln comprises a conveying device for conveying the basic ceramic articles along a given path through a firing chamber, in which the basic ceramic articles are heated, a cooling chamber, in which the basic ceramic articles are cooled so as to obtain ceramic products; and an extraction device adapted to generate two gas flows in the firing chamber; the gas flows come from two opposite ends of the firing chamber and meet in the extraction device.

The invention makes public heating apparatus for vertically and helically conveying workpiece, including the main bracket, on which interconnected heating furnace and cooling furnace are arranged in parallel; The bracket is placed inside the heating furnace, the 1.sup.st spiral supporting plate is spiraling on the bracket, and conveyer belt is arranged on the 1.sup.st spiral supporting plate along spiral direction; one or multiple gas inlet/inlets are set on the heating furnace body to fill protective gas into furnace;

The 2.sup.nd spiral supporting plate is spiraling vertically inside the mentioned cooling furnace; the direction of the mentioned conveyer belt inside the cooling furnace is uniform to that of the 2.sup.nd spiral supporting plate; drive mechanism for conveyer belt is installed on the mentioned main bracket. One or multiple gas inlet/inlets are set on the cooling furnace body to fill protective gas into furnace; the conveyer belt runs through the mentioned heating furnace and cooling furnace and forms one loop via drive mechanism. The protective atmosphere spiral conveying heating furnace and spiral conveying cooling device is energy-saving and space saving with high efficiency.

An example furnace includes a plurality of furnace components that are stacked to form a plurality of furnace chambers therebetween. Each furnace component includes opposing sidewalls and a support wall that extends between the opposing sidewalls, separates adjacent ones of the plurality of furnace chambers, and defines a plurality of channels. A plurality of heating elements are situated in the channels.

Provided is a heat treatment apparatus capable of being configured to be more compact.

A heat treatment apparatus 1 includes a coolant passage defining body 42 to define a coolant passage 48 to supply a coolant to a workpiece 100. The coolant passage defining body 42 includes an upper member 50 and a lower member 40 as a plurality of coolant passage defining members, and is configured so that, by displacing these members 49 and 50 so as to approach each other along an up-down direction Z1 crossing a conveyance direction, the coolant passage 48 is defined in a state housing the workpiece 100. In addition, the coolant passage defining body is configured so that, by displacing the members 49 and 50 described above so as to separate from each other along the up-down direction Z1, the workpiece 100 is allowed to be let into and out of the coolant passage 48 along the conveyance direction A1.

A steel strip annealing furnace humidification system includes a furnace, a water-injecting system, and a control system. The furnace has a heating region and a soaking region. The water-injecting system is configured to directly feed a liquid into the furnace. The control system is in communication with the water-injecting system to control the feed of liquid into the furnace based on a measured dew point associated with an interior of the furnace.

Multi-chamber furnace for vacuum carburizing and quenching of gears, shafts, rings and similar components has at least two process chambers connected in parallel, with a continuous feeding mechanism for individual workpieces. Those chambersthe first one being a heating chamber, the second being a carburizing chamber and the third one diffusion chamberare configured in a vertical arrangement, placed in a shared vacuum space with gas-tight division, whereas at the ends of each chamber there are incorporated heating chambers with thermal insulation, with a graphite heating system and stepping feeding mechanism incorporated in the core for the purpose of continuous feeding of individual workpieces. At the ends of those chambers the construction incorporates transport chambers featuring loading and unloading systems X-Y enabling cooperation with individual process chambers through thermal and gas-tight doors installed in chamber ends, while external access to the transport chambers is ensured through loading and unloading locks.

A substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating system including the same are disclosed, in which the number of heat treatment chambers such as anneal chambers may be varied. The substrate treating apparatus includes a first chamber heat-treating a substrate; and a second chamber treating the substrate in another way different from heat-treatment, wherein the number of the first chambers is varied depending on the number of the second chambers that need heat treatment for the substrate.

An annealing facility in which a steel sheet after cold rolling is sequentially threaded through an annealing furnace having at least a first region, a second region, and a third region to continuously undergo finish annealing. Each of the regions of the annealing furnace is independently controllable in terms of the gas composition and the dew point of the atmosphere. The second region is composed of a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone all having atmospheric temperatures of 900 C. or higher, with an atmospheric gas controlled to have a nitrogen content of 30 vol % or less and a dew point of 40 C. or lower. Further, an electrical steel sheet, preferably a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with low iron loss is produced by performing finish annealing using this annealing facility.

A device and a method are described by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly influenced by means of at least two adjacent segments. By exchanging segments, the process control can be adapted quickly and flexibly to a wide variety of metal products.