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Circuit arrangement for supplying electrode melting furnaces

US3952139A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 20, 1974
Grant dateApr 20, 1976
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Expiry dateDec 20, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC22B9/18
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns a converter arrangement for electrode melting furnaces, particularly for electric slag remelting of metals. A current regulator in the form of a PI controller is associated with the converter arrangement. The former is influenced by an actual current value, a reference current value, and additionally, by a control quantity. The control quantity replaces the current regulation of the regulator by a voltage control in dependence on periodic or aperiodic conditions which may be due to operational causes or to trouble and interfere with the melting process in the furnace. More particularly, for the duration of such conditions, the control quantity causes the output voltage of the regulator, which voltage acts on the control unit feeding the converter, to be limited upward to an adjustable value.

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