The invention relates to a chamber (1) for the controlled oxidation of metal strips in a furnace for annealing a continuous production line of strips which are hot-coated, for example by galvanisation, the oxidation chamber allowing the oxidation of the metal strips by means of an oxidising gas injected on at least one of the faces of a strip (15), the oxidation chamber comprising oxidation portions (17) extending over the width and/or length thereof, each portion comprising at least one blow opening (4) and at least one suction opening (5) between which an oxidising gas circulates, each portion being controllable in a different way so as to adjust the oxidation induced on the strip over the width and length of the oxidation chamber.

A method of manufacture for a carbon/carbon part including a method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing a gaseous reducing agent hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures. A method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures.

A system and method of providing power to at least one component within a gas furnace, the method including operating a gas furnace to produce thermal energy; operating a waste heat assembly to extract the thermal energy from the gas furnace; operating the waste heat assembly to convert the extracted thermal energy to electrical energy; operating the waste heat assembly to transmit the electrical energy to at least one component of the gas furnace.

A method of manufacture for a carbon/carbon part including a method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing a gaseous reducing agent hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures. A method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures.

To provide a furnace control system which can predict production of flammable gases produced inside a furnace during melting, incineration, and fusion batch processes and effectively carry out furnace combustion control on the basis of said prediction results in order to reduce the conventional problem of time lag. A furnace control system has a flammable gas quantity of state calculation unit 12 which calculates a flammable gas quantity of state corresponding to prediction factor data using a quantity of state estimation model for flammable gas originating in volatile organic compounds produced using intelligent information processing technology using as learning data past data relating to furnaces, data relating to materials, and data relating to exhaust gases, and a combustion control unit 11 which controls furnace combustion on the basis of the flammable gas quantity of state calculated by the flammable gas quantity of state calculation unit 12.

Systems, devices and methods for effluent or flux removal from a gas are disclosed. In one aspect the system includes at least one tube having a body including an interior passageway enabling fluidic flow therethrough; and a plurality of openings disposed along a length of the body in fluidic communication with the interior passageway, thereby enabling withdrawal of the gas laden with the effluent exterior to the at least one tube through the plurality of openings into the interior passageway of the at least one tube.

The present invention discloses a device and method for measuring the softening and melting performances of iron ore in blast furnace under a reducing condition. The device includes a high temperature furnace, a gas supply system, a loading system and a weighing system, where the high temperature furnace is provided with a hearth, which is provided therein with a graphite crucible and a temperature acquisition device; the gas supply system is used to inject a reducing gas including N.sub.2, H.sub.2, CO.sub.2 and CO into the hearth; the gas supply system includes a gas storage device and a gas mixing device; the loading system includes a loading rod; an upper end of the loading rod is connected with a loading device and a displacement sensor, and a lower end of the loading rod is provided with a loading head; the weighing system is used to weigh a droplet and iron ore specimen.

In a substrate pre-baking device, a baking box housing includes a baking chamber in an interior space of the baking box housing, wherein an opening corresponding to a side door is arranged on a lateral side of the baking box housing. The side door is arranged at the opening of the baking box housing. A heating structure is arranged in the baking chamber. A hot air curtain device is arranged at the side door of the baking box housing. When the side door is opened, the hot air curtain device is configured to form a hot air curtain for isolating the baking chamber from outside environment at the opening of the side door.

Operation of a thermochemical regenerator to generate soot or to increase the amount of soot generated improves the performance of a furnace with which the thermochemical regenerator is operated.

A sealed feeder device utilized in an electric arc furnace (1), and a flue gas and temperature control method. The sealed feeder device comprises a sealed feeding chute (5) having an outlet sealedly communicating with a side wall of the electric arc furnace (1), and a material blocking sealed arc-shaped door (3) disposed in the sealed feeding chute (5). The material blocking sealed arc-shaped door (3) separates the sealed feeding chute (5) into a cold steel scrap storage chamber (18) and a material feeding and dedusting chamber (2), and is operated by a driving mechanism (34) to separate or connect the cold steel scrap storage chamber (18) and the material feeding and dedusting chamber (2). The method comprises: adopting the feeder device to divide the flue gas of the electric arc furnace (1) into two paths, and controlling, by a flue gas adjustment device (16), a ratio of a flue gas flow from a flow-splitting dust removal pipe (11) to that from a dust removal pipe (4) to obtain a required flue gas mixture temperature.