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Water cooling in induction heating furnaces

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6242069
An induction heated horizontal continuous casting device is described, comprising in combination a tundish opening for receiving steel, an inductor section for inductively maintaining steel temperature, a heating coil externally disposed about the inductor section, a refractory sleeve joint forming a discharge channel for removing liquid steel from the inductor, a water cooled coil array disposed about the inductor and a set of magnetic field insulator surrounding the coil.
Assignee:
Inst. Mexicano de Investigaciones, Siderurgicas (Mexico)
Patent Number(s):
US 5236180; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-748073
OSTI ID:
6242069
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English