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- Title
Vacuum oxygen decarburization (VOD) of stainless steel.
- Authors
Teeuwsen, Anke
- Abstract
High costs for vacuum generation and maintenance can be overcome by replacing steam ejector pumps with mechanical vacuum pumps, initially for the vacuum degassing (VD) process but later also for the vacuum oxygen decarburization (VOD) process. Initial concerns about the technical suitability of mechanical pumps for vacuum processing of large heat weights have proven unfounded. There is no real technical upper limit. With detailed knowledge about the vacuum process mechanical vacuum pumps can be successfully engineered for any heat weight where a steam ejector pump would previously have been selected. In fact, suction speed of mechanical vacuum pumps can be ideally controlled to fit the various phases of vacuum processing. This article will show how mechanical vacuum pumps contribute to significant cost reduction and to the possibility of automation of decarburisation, thereby achieving better process control.
- Subjects
ELECTRIC discharges; PUMPING machinery; PHOTOSYNTHETIC oxygen evolution; VACUUM technology; CONTROL theory (Engineering); FLEXIBLE manufacturing systems; INDUSTRIAL costs
- Publication
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 3, p32
- ISSN
0947-076X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/vipr.201400555