A carrier-type heat-treatment apparatus including a furnace main body that includes heaters and a mesh belt that transports an object to be heat-treated into the furnace main body includes a gas pipe arranged inside the furnace main body, the gas pipe being configured to inject a gas into the furnace main body, in which a low-temperature zone and a high-temperature zone are provided inside the furnace main body with the gas, the low-temperature zone being provided on an entrance side of the furnace main body, the high-temperature zone being provided on an exit side of the furnace main body and having a temperature higher than the low-temperature zone.

An industrial furnace (1) into which protective gas is admitted for the heat treatment of batches (5) of metal workpieces is described. The heat treating furnace includes an entrance lock (2) which can be sealed with respect to the surrounding environment by means of a first gas-tight closure device (2.2.1). The heat treating furnace also includes a third gas-tight closure device (3.1) disposed between a heat treatment chamber (3) of the furnace and a quenching facility (4) at the exit of the heat treatment chamber. With the foregoing arrangement a pressure of the protective gas admitted into the heat treatment chamber (3) can be maintained during loading and unloading of a batch of metal workpieces (5). The entrance lock may be configured as a dual-chamber vertical arrangement or as a single chamber horizontal arrangement.

A method and device for producing a crude copper. The method comprises: mixing and reacting copper smelting molten slag (1), a carbon-containing reductant (2) and an inert gas (3) under pressure, the pressure of the inert gas (3) being 100 kPa to 800 kPa. The device comprises: a furnace body (4) and gas nozzles (411) disposed on the furnace body (4), the gas nozzles (411) being located on the sidewall of the furnace body (4) and connected to the center of the molten pool.

A non-oxidation heat treatment system having internal Rx gas (endothermic gas) generator includes: a heat treatment furnace whose internal environment kept to an atmosphere of an Rx gas; internal reformers for accommodating reaction catalysts for generating the Rx gas; material supply means for mixing raw gas as a material for generating the Rx gas and air to a given ratio to supply the mixture to the internal reformers; heating means disposed in the heat treatment furnace to heat an internal temperature of the heat treatment furnace to a temperature needed for annealing; and a controller disposed on the outside to control the internal temperature of the heat treatment furnace through the control of the ON/OFF and combustion loads of the of the heating means, wherein the internal reformers are loaded to the interior of the heat treatment furnace and the heating means includes regenerative type radiant tube burners.

A method for manufacturing a carbon fiber bundle includes a stabilization process of subjecting an acrylic fiber bundle to a heat treatment within a range of 200 C. to 300 C. in an oxidizing atmosphere; a pre-carbonization process of performing a heat treatment within a range of 300 C. to 1,000 C. using a heat treatment furnace having at least one inert gas supply port on each of an incoming side and an outgoing side of the fiber bundle and at least one exhaust port between the incoming-side and outgoing-side inert gas supply ports, the heat treatment being performed with a temperature of an inert gas supplied being higher on the outgoing side than on the incoming side; and a carbonization process of performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 1,000 C. to 2,000 C. in an inert gas atmosphere, in which from a position at which an atmospheric temperature in the heat treatment furnace is 300 C., the position being closest to the outgoing side in a machine length direction, up to the inert gas supply port on the incoming side, a flow of an inert atmosphere within the heat treatment furnace in the pre-carbonization process consists only of a flow in a parallel flow direction with respect to a travel direction of the fiber bundle in the machine length direction. Provided is a method for manufacturing a carbon fiber bundle by which manufacturing can be performed continuously for a long time by preventing entry into a temperature zone causing deposition of a gasified decomposition product, such as tar, that is generated at the time of the pre-carbonization treatment in manufacturing of carbon fibers and that stays within the heat treatment furnace.

The invention relates to a device for inductively heating at least one workpiece, in particular a substantially strip-shaped workpiece, including at least one furnace housing; at least one inductor arrangement arranged within the furnace housing, the inductor arrangement being arranged at least partially in an inductor region of the furnace housing; at least one heating region for receiving process gas. The heating region being arranged within the furnace housing; and separating material for separating, in particular for thermally separating, the inductor region and the heating region. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for inductively heating at least one workpiece.

The present disclosure relates to a graphitization apparatus for manufacturing artificial graphite using lasers, including: a first chamber having doors located on both walls thereof in such a way as to be open when saggars go in and out and providing a workspace for graphitization of raw materials filled in the saggars; a laser heater consisting of a plurality of laser systems and irradiating laser beams onto the raw materials introduced into the first chamber to graphitize the raw materials; and a first transfer conveyor for sending the saggars filled with the raw materials to the first chamber and taking the saggars out of the first camber after the graphitization has been completed.

The present application discloses an oven that comprises a lower housing assembly, an upper housing assembly, and a retaining assembly. The upper housing assembly is disposed above the lower housing assembly, the upper housing assembly is capable of opening and closing relative to the lower housing assembly and is capable of forming a working cavity when closed with the lower housing assembly, the upper housing assembly comprises an upper housing front plate. The retaining assembly is fixedly disposed on the upper housing front plate to prevent substantial deformation of the upper housing assembly during heating.