Provided is a method of 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. The method includes: training a neural network with accumulated operation conditions; and deriving an absolute value of at least one of an air knife gap and an air knife pressure by using the trained neural network based on an input operation condition.

Provided is an apparatus for cooling a metal material, the apparatus comprising: a spray cooling unit for spraying a cooling medium onto the surface of a metal material; and a spray amount control unit which regulates the rate of passage of the cooling medium sprayed from the spray cooling unit onto the edge region of the metal material, and controls the spray amount of the cooling medium.

Showerhead faceplates for semiconductor processing chambers are provided that include one or more sets of gas distribution passages therethrough that extend at least partially along axes that are at an oblique angle to the showerhead faceplate center axis. Such angled gas distribution passages may be used to tailor the gas flow characteristics of such showerhead faceplates to produce various desired gas flow behaviors in the gas that is delivered to the wafer via such showerhead faceplates.

A wiping device which blows a wiping gas toward a steel sheet from a pair of wiping nozzles disposed on both sides of the steel sheet so as to face sheet surfaces of the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet is interposed between the pair of wiping nozzles and is pulled from a hot dip coating bath, the device includes a suctioning tube, wherein: the suctioning tube is disposed on both sides in a width direction of a section of the steel sheet, the section being positioned between the pair of wiping nozzles, so that the suctioning tube is in parallel to the steel sheet; the suctioning tube has a suctioning port that suctions an air; the suctioning port is disposed to face a side end surface of the steel sheet; a cross-sectional shape of the suctioning tube has the largest dimension thereof along a pulling direction of the steel sheet.

A method of treating a steel tubing with a coating to resist corrosion includes passing a steel tubing through a trough of molten zinc-aluminum alloy. The method additionally includes establishing a magnetic field with an electrical current and adjusting the electric current to adjust a thickness of zinc-aluminum alloy coating on the steel tubing. The method further includes passing the steel tubing through the magnetic field. A steel tubing treated with the method may include a zinc-aluminum coating having a thickness of at least approximately 10 m and preferably at least approximately 15 m.

Device for solidifying a coating layer hot deposited on a wire, corresponding installation and method. The device comprises a cooling liquid injection chamber with a liquid inlet and a wire inlet, a cooling chamber with a liquid outlet and a wire outlet, and a partition arranged between the injection and cooling chambers, comprising a wire passage. It also has a conduit for separating the wire. The partition comprises channels fluidically connecting the injection chamber with the cooling chamber and leading into the center of the wire passage in an eccentric manner and being inclined forming an angle () with respect to a longitudinal direction. This directs a jet of cooling liquid on the wire in the direction from the injection chamber towards the cooling chamber.

It is provided a method and device to control the thickness of a metallic coating on a steel wire. A device (101) for controlling a metallic coating thickness on a steel wire comprises:a digital proportional valve (113); a digital flow meter (111); a pressure sensor (115); a thickness sensor (105); a gas nozzle (119); a computer (107); and is characterized in that the relation between the gas flow measured by said digital flow meter (111) and the coating thickness measured by said thickness sensor (105) for said gas nozzle (119) is linear or parabolic.

A method of galvanizing a workpiece. The method is performed using a trough. The trough includes connected walls configured to hold a molten galvanization material within the trough. The trough also includes a first end including a first gate system. The trough also includes a second end, opposing the first end, including a second gate system. The trough also includes a roller connected, inside the trough, to opposing inside walls of the connected walls. The trough also includes a sump disposed within the trough. The method also includes pumping the molten galvanization material into the sump until the molten galvanization material submerges the roller. The method also includes driving the workpiece through the first gate system, over the roller and through the molten galvanization material, and through the second gate system.

A method for setting the production schedule of a multiplicity of galvanized coils of metallic strip on a continuous galvanizing line is provided, the method including the steps of evaluating, for each possible combination of two uncoated coils, the impact of the transition from the first uncoated coil to the second uncoated coil on the quality of the galvanized coils, allocating to each possible combination of uncoated coils a weighting factor which depends on the results of the previous step and which takes into account the line constraints, computing the results of the previous step by calculating, for a number of possible schedules of the multiplicity of uncoated coils, a score which depends on the sum of the weighting factors attributed to the combinations of uncoated coils involved in the given schedule and by selecting the schedule with the optimal score.

A bearing system is configured for use between a roller journal and a support frame in a molten metal hot dip coating line for steel strip. The system includes a sleeve configured to attach to a journal and a bearing assembly comprising a bushing rotatably supporting the sleeve. The sleeve is made from solid cemented carbide. An elastically compressible layer joins the sleeve to the journal, wherein the sleeve and the journal are mechanically coupled to rotate together.