An inline thermal treatment system for thermally treating a continuous conductive product includes a first electrode configured to contact a continuous conductive product and a second electrode configured to contact the continuous conductive product such that a portion of the continuous conductive product is disposed between the first and second electrodes. The inline thermal treatment system includes a power source coupled to the first electrode and to the second electrode, wherein the power source is configured to apply an electrical bias between the first electrode and the second electrode to resistively heat the portion of the continuous conductive product disposed between the first and second electrodes.

Provided is a gas management assembly for a high pressure heat-treatment apparatus, the assembly including: a housing having an inner space; a gas supply module disposed in the inner space and configured to supply a gas to internal and external chambers of the high pressure heat-treatment apparatus; a gas exhaust module disposed in the inner space and configured to exhaust the gas caused by heat treatment of an object from the internal chamber; a detection module connected to the gas exhaust module in the inner space and configured to detect the residual gas remaining in the internal chamber; and a control module configured to control at least one of the gas supply module and the gas exhaust module based on a detection result of the residual gas by the detection module.

The invention relates to a method for controlling suspension in a suspension smelting furnace, to a suspension smelting furnace, and to a concentrate burner. The method comprises feeding additionally to pulverous solid matter and additionally to reaction gas reducing agent into the suspension smelting furnace, wherein reducing agent is fed in the form of a concentrated stream of reducing agent through the suspension in the reaction shaft onto the surface of the melt to form a reducing zone containing reducing agent within the collection zone of the melt.

A blocking prevention device for a gasification melting system combusts and melts an object to be treated into a slag in a melting furnace after the object to be treated is converted into pyrolysis gas in a gasification furnace, the blocking prevention device including: a slag adhesion prevention device having a slag adhesion prevention capability for preventing adhesion of the slag at an opening part that may be blocked due to the adhesion of the slag; an imaging device that images the opening part; and a control device including a calculation unit that calculates a change rate of an opening area of the opening part using a plurality of images with different capturing times or a video, captured by the imaging device, and a prevention device control unit that changes the slag adhesion prevention capabilities of a plurality of the slag adhesion prevention devices in accordance with the change rate.

An inline thermal treatment system for thermally treating a continuous conductive product includes a first electrode configured to contact a continuous conductive product and a second electrode configured to contact the continuous conductive product such that a portion of the continuous conductive product is disposed between the first and second electrodes. The inline thermal treatment system includes a power source coupled to the first electrode and to the second electrode, wherein the power source is configured to apply an electrical bias between the first electrode and the second electrode to resistively heat the portion of the continuous conductive product disposed between the first and second electrodes.

A method for the direct reduction of feedstock, containing metal-oxide, to form metallic material, by contact with hot reduction gas in a reduction assembly (1): the product of the direct reduction process is discharged from the reduction assembly by a product discharge apparatus, which is flushed with seal gas, drawn off from the vent gas and subsequently dedusted. At least one portion of the dedusted vent gas is used as a combustion energy source during the production of the reduction gas, and/or as a component of a furnace fuel gas during a combustion process for heating the reduction gas, and/or as a component of the reduction gas. Apparatus for carrying out the method is disclosed.

The present disclosure is related to a method of producing a fired ceramic article. The method may include: heating a ceramic green body in a kiln, and controlling oxygen concentration in the kiln such that the oxygen concentration swings during the heating of the ceramic green body.

An oxidation furnace for the oxidative treatment of fibers having a housing which is gas-tight, apart from passage areas for the fibers, and a process chamber located in the interior of the housing. A hot working atmosphere can be generated by an atmosphere-generating device, can be blown into the process chamber and flows through the process chamber in processing conditions in a main direction of flow. Deflecting rollers guide the fibers through the process chamber in a serpentine manner in such a way that the fibers lie next to one another as a fiber carpet (22a), wherein the fiber carpet spans a plane between opposite deflecting rollers. A flow measuring system is provided, by means of which a flow profile of the working atmosphere in processing conditions can be generated, and which comprises at least one sensor system for determining the speed of flow, the sensor system being arranged in a sensor region between two adjacent fiber carpets.

A heat treatment apparatus includes: a processing container having an interior space in which substrates are processed; a temperature adjustment furnace that is disposed around the processing container and heats the substrates from the outer side of the processing container; and an internal temperature adjustment unit that is movable relative to the processing container and supplies a temperature adjustment gas for regulating a temperature of the processing container into the interior space in a state of being disposed facing an opening that opens the interior space.

A method firing green ware. The method for firing includes setting a kiln oxygen concentration set point for an atmosphere of a ware space of a kiln during an oxygen-consuming event in the ware space of the kiln. An oxygen flux control mode is initiated that includes measuring an oxygen concentration of the atmosphere of the ware space in the kiln, comparing the oxygen concentration to the kiln oxygen concentration set point to determine a difference between the oxygen concentration and the kiln oxygen concentration set point, and adjusting a flow of secondary gas into the ware space to set an oxygen flux in the atmosphere in the ware space of the kiln based on the difference between the oxygen concentration and the kiln oxygen concentration set point. A kiln for firing the ceramic green ware and a manufacturing system including the kiln for manufacturing ceramic ware are also disclosed.