Voest-alpine Industrieanlagenbau Gmbh

Voest-alpine Industrienlagenbau Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Ernst Hollwarth

Hellmuth Smejkal

Manfred Eysn

Johann Fohler

Ernest Fuhrmann

Hans Grabner

In an arrangement for supplying media to a blowing lance for a metallurgical vessel including a blowing lance arranged on a lance carrier, a connection piece of the lance carrier connected to at least one media supply duct is pressable at a counter connection piece of the blowing lance such that the media supply duct is sealingly connectable to a corresponding medium channel of the blowing lance. In order to ensure the tight connection between blowing lance and lance carrier in a sinmple manner and without manual manipulations, a displacement means including a seat for the blowing lance is provided on the lance carrier to move the counter connection piece from a released position into a coupled position and vice versa. The displacement means is movable by a driving device, which presses the counter connection piece against the connection piece in the coupled position, selflockingly and positively fixing the displacement means in the coupled position.

Arrangement for supplying media to a blowing lance

A blowing lance to be used for the treatment of metallurgical melts includes a lance head having several expansion tuyeres directed to the bath level of the melt and penetrating a front plate of the lance head. They depart from at least one lance channel, which is peripherally surrounded by a supply channel and a return channel for a cooling medium. The supply channel is separated from the return channel by a flow deflection piece arranged above the front plate and penetrated by at least one connecting channel connecting the supply and return channels and provided for the cooling medium. In order to considerably increase the service life of the blowing lance and to avoid leakages in the front plate, at least one coolant secondary channel is provided in addition to the at least one connecting channel, which, upon branching off a partial stream of the coolant flowing to the connecting channel, diverts this partial stream into a flow direction deviating from the flow direction in the connecting channel and whose mouth is directed directly towards the center of the front plate.

Blowing lance arrangement

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Sierning, Austria

Ernst Hollwarth