Dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating

Abstract

The present invention provides a dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating to produce a continuously annealed steel sheet and a hot dip plated steel sheet by switching process routes in the single installation, and according to the present invention, by installing a bypass facility which leads a steel sheet from a continuous annealing furnace to a water quenching facility without it traveling through a plating pot and a plating facility in the a dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating, it becomes possible to prevent the steel sheet coming out from the annealing furnace from being exposed to the outside atmosphere and being oxidized during the production of a continuously annealed product and to realize a less expensive dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating.

1 . A dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating wherein at least a continuous annealing furnace, a coating pot, a coating facility and a water quenching facility are arranged in the form of a processing line along the travelling direction of a steel sheet, characterized by having a bypass facility enabling a steel sheet to be led from the continuous annealing furnace directly to the water quenching facility without being exposed to the outside atmosphere and the interior of the bypass facility being kept filled with a non-oxidizing atmosphere.  
     
     
         2 . A dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating characterized by having an alloying furnace, a steel sheet cooling unit, or both of them proceeding to a coating pot and a coating facility and being equipped with the bypass facility according to  claim 1 .  
     
     
         3 . A dual-purpose installation for continuous annealing and hot dip plating according to  claim 1  or  2 , enabling the coating facility and the equipment in the coating pot to be transported and repaired and the production efficiency to be enhanced by installing the coating pot, the coating facility and a crane beneath the bypass facility.