Abstract:
For direct current electric arc furnace melting of metal scrap a furnace includes a vessel having a bottom wall shaped so that a portion of the melt is collected in the latter after initial melting or introducing of molten metal to start the operation. This vessel has means for feeding scrap in pieces to the peripheral portion of the bottom wall to form at that location an annular pile, or one or more separate piles, of unmelted scrap contacting and electrically connecting with the melt but extending upwardly to a level above the melts level. An electrode is positioned vertically with an arcing and maintained above the level of the melt to form an arc therebetween, this electrode being spaced from the pile or piles of scrap when the operation has started. The melt is made an anode by maintaining a positive electrical connection from a DC power source with the pile or piles of scrap at a position above the level of the melt so that the current passes through the unmelted scrap, with consequent heating of the scrap while magnetically tending to keep it piled, and through the melt and via an arc to the arcing electrode, the latter being negatively connected with the power source. The arcing electrode is made of carbon and in the described way enjoys the advantages of operating as a cathode without requiring an arcing anode electrode or an electrically conductive vessel bottom. More than one negatively connected arcing electrode may be used.
Abstract:
For measuring the clamping force prevailing in the windings of a transformer which has windings mechanically clamped between clacks arranged in two clack rings which support the windings at their ends, clacks are provided forming columns of clacks in the windings over which the clamping force is to be measured. One of the clacks arranged in the clack rings is in contact with one of the outer clacks of each of the columns. One of the clacks in the clack ring is provided with a channel which opens into the area of contact between it and the column clack and to the outside. Liquid under pressure is supplied to this passage, and, when there is balance between the added pressure medium and the pressure medium leaking out in the area, the pressure is determined and a clamping force is derived from the measured pressure with the help of a calibration curve.
Abstract:
In an inverter with a plurality of connection groups, each of which includes positive and negative points of connection for connection to a feeding direct current voltage source and an alternating current terminal, controllable main rectifiers are connected between the positive point of connection and the alternating current terminal and between the alternating current terminal and the negative point of connection, with a commutating capacitor having one terminal connected to the alternating current terminal. There are a second positive and a second negative point of connection connected to a commutating direct voltage source, with controllable commutating rectifiers connected between the second positive point of connection and the second terminal of the commutating capacitor and between the second terminal of the capacitor and the second negative point of connection. Two pairs of windings are provided which are magnetically coupled to each other. One pair of windings has a winding connected between the first rectifier and the alternating current terminal and the second winding in series with the first commutating rectifier. The second pair of windings has one winding connected between the alternating current terminal and the second main rectifier and the second in series with the second commutating rectifier. A feedback valve has its anode connected to a point between the second main rectifier and the first winding of the second pair and its cathode connected to the first positive point of connection; and a second feedback valve has its anode connected to the first negative point of connection and its cathode to a point between the first main rectifier and the first winding of the first pair of windings.
Abstract:
In a high pressure press which has a seal holder, a high pressure seal is provided between the wall of a high pressure cylinder and a die or an axially movable plunger projecting into the cylinder, which is composed of two sealing rings, one of which has an outer surface abutting the cylindrical wall and an end surface abutting the seal holder, while the other ring has a cylindrical surface abutting the plunger and a surface abutting the seal holder. The portion of the outer surface of the first ring abutting the cylindrical wall which is nearest to the seal holder is provided with generally longitudinally extending draining channels therein.
Abstract:
A method for desulphurizing steel in heats over 1 metric ton in a container, such as a ladle furnace. The container is provided with a basic slag line and additionally with a lining which substantially prevents oxygen from leaking in through or from the lining. Basic slag-formers such as lime are added to the steel melt in the container in order to obtain highly basic slag and other desulphurizing agents such as misch metal may be added. The melt is well deoxidized by means of vacuum degassing or precipitation deoxidation, and subjected to vigorous stirring and heating during the process.
Abstract:
A semiconductor of the kind comprising at least one pn-junction the doping of which in the p-region (n-region) increases continuously or gradually from the pn-junction, and also having an isolating surface layer at least at the marginal portion of said pn-junction. In this semiconductor a first portion of said surface layer is positioned outside the substantially p-doped (ndoped) region, and a second portion of said surface layer is positioned outside the n-doped (p-doped) region of said pnjunction, said first portion having a permanently negative (positive) surface charge relative to said second portion.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic valve for molten metal has means for forming a magnetic flux field transversely across the hole of a refractory nozzle through which molten metal can flow, and two electrodes extend through the nozzle transversely with respect to the hole and that flux field, the electrodes having cooling means and being made at least mainly of copper, each electrode having an inner end contacted by the metal for passing a current through the metal and thereby controlling the metal flow through the nozzle hole. Each electrode''s inner end is protected by a composite cladding formed by an inner layer that is, like the electrode, mainly copper, and an outer layer of a metal that is more wear-resistant, but less heat-conductive, than the inner layer, the two layers of the cladding being weld-bonded together so that they are inseparable. The inner layer having the same or substantially the same composition as the electrode, is fixed to the electrode by a film of solder which is protected from the heat of the metal, by the rapid transfer of this heat to the electrode having the cooling means, the solder film being sandwiched between the electrode and inner layer of the cladding, both of which are mainly copper and, therefore, of high heat conductivity.
Abstract:
A composite die for hydrostatic extrusion is composed of a preforming portion with a conical inlet portion and an endforming portion, separated from each other along a radially dividing plane. A force-absorbing support ring surrounds that part of the end-forming portion which is in contact with and nearest the pre-forming portion. There is a gap on the outside of the part of the end-forming portion remote from the pre-forming portion. Separate rings surround and abut the calibrating endforming portion and the support ring.
Abstract:
A nuclear reactor formed of fuel assemblies each including a plurality of parallel fuel rods arranged in a predetermined fuel rod lattice, which rods are freely extractable and insertable at one end of the fuel assembly, is refueled by extracting from one of the fuel assemblies a number of fuel rods substantially less than the total number of fuel rods and replacing these by inserting new fuel rods into the vacated positions. This is done for a majority of fuel assemblies of the reactor. At the next refueling operation different fuel rods from those previously replaced are removed and replaced. The removal and return of the rods is produced by a tool having a plurality of gripping members capable of engaging shoulders beneath heads formed on the upper ends of the fuel rods. This may be accomplished by providing a tool having a number of gripping members attached to the tool body corresponding to the lattice positions of the fuel rods to be extracted, having gripping members which can be pushed together to grip beneath shoulders on the upper ends of the fuel rods.
Abstract:
In order to compensate for hysteresis in the measuring signal from a magnetoelastic transducer constituted by an iron core and windings arranged in the core for generating a magnetic field in the core and measuring the changes in the magnetic field is occurred when the core is affected by a mechanical force, compensating windings are located in apertures in the core at points where the field strength is considerably lower than around the apertures for the measuring windings and where the mechanical stress condition of the mechanical force acting on the core is different. The signals generated by the measuring windings and the compensating windings are added in such phase position of the signals that the hysteresis component of the compensating signal is in opposition to the hysteresis component of the signal produced by the measuring windings.