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HPH® Bell-type Annealing Furnaces with SPRAY Cooling for Carbon Steel Strip
SPRAY cooling ensures high productivity with low investment costs. After initial cooling by air, the inner cover is cooled with water.
Throughout the world, more than 8,500 LOI annealing bases have been installed. About 5,000 of these bases operate with HNx controlled atmospheres (5 % H2, 95 % N2). More than 3,500 bases use HPH® annealing technology with pure hydrogen annealing atmosphere.
LOI is therefor also market leader in the field of high performance Bell-type Annealing Furnaces. LOI has installed more than 300 bell-type-annealing plants in more than 30 countries and these plants are producing approx. 45 million tons of wide, medium-width and narrow strip each year.
In developing HPH® technology, LOI focused on the zero-error philosophy at the same time as building on existing furnace designs. As a result, even older Bell-type Annealing plants can be converted to HPH® operation.
LOI HPH® technology ensures atmosphere dew points below -60 °C. The extremely pure hydrogen annealing atmosphere and precise temperature control bring considerable quality benefits with a wide variety of steel grades.
More than 2,000 HPH®-bases with SPRAY cooling technology have been built by LOI.
Value for Money
- Low operating costs
- Low investment costs
- Low shop floor space consumption due to high efficiency
Efficiency
- High efficient burner-individual recuperators
- High convective heat transfer
- Excellent temperature uniformity
Safety
- Sophisticated process control
- O2 concentration monitoring during prepurging
- TÜV proven safety strategy
Service
- Long service life
- Sturdy cast diffusor system
Reference
- > 60 years of experience in Bell-type Annealing
- > 8,500 bases worldwide (> 3,500 HPH®)
- > 2,000 HPH® bases with SPRAY cooling
Environment
- Selection of alternative cooling systems i.e. for low water quality or extended energy recovery
Digitalization
- Fully automated control system
- Various software modules for optimization
Technical Excellence
- World's first fully automated BAF plant
- HPH®-Flameless combustion technology
Contact Contact Person Position Legal Entity Department Phone Fax E-mail Address LOI Thermprocess GmbH +49 201 1891-1 +49 201 1891-321 loi@tenova.com Am Lichtbogen 29
45141 Essen
Germany
Carbon Steel
HPH® Bell-type Annealing Furnaces with BYPASS+JET Cooling for Carbon Steel Strip
BYPASS+JET cooling allows highest productivity of the three cooling technologies designed by LOI. High efficient JET cooling hood is combined with a BYPASS system utilizing a gas-water heat exchanger to cool the process atmosphere directly.
HPH® Bell-type Annealing Furnaces with JET Cooling for Carbon Steel Strip
JET cooling technology does not require open water in the workshop. During cooling, specially designed JET nozzles ensure high air velocity perpendicular to the inner cover, ensuring high heat transfers, while the cooling speed can be controlled by frequency-controlled fans.
