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Carburizing section of the continuous annealing furnace for BH steel strip production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2003

A. Hennion ,
J.-F. Noville ,
P. Simon  and
J. Crahay
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Abstract

The possibility to produce deep drawing quality - bake hardenable steel grades, by introducing carbon into the strip after its recrystallization, was shown few years ago at the laboratory scale. A closed reactive zone with high contents of CO and H2 was implemented on the CRM's pilot line of continuous annealing and hot-dip galvanizing. The 0.7 mm-thick strip is carburized in less than 15 seconds with C pick-up between 10 and 70 ppm. Developments performed to isolate atmospheres could also benefit to other reactive treatments (nitriding, oxidation-reduction, etc.) aiming to improve the response of high strength steel grades to hot-dip galvanizing. The reactor design, process feasibility demonstration and product potentialities are presented.

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Research Article
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Metallurgical Research & Technology , Volume 100 , Issue 7-8: Laminage à chaud et à froidLignes avalRefusion sous videPlaquesUtilisation de l'acier , July 2003 , pp. 741 - 749
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© La Revue de Métallurgie, 2003

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