Salomon Smith Barney Inc. All rights reserved. Rolling a strip of steel to smooth the edges. By removing the burr off the coil, it is safer for customers to manipulate.
Heat is supplied from electricity that arcs from the graphite electrodes to the metal bath.
DC units consume less energy and fewer electrodes, but they are more expensive. A batch process used to produce a zinc coating on manufactured articles. Electric current is used to force the deposition of negatively charged zinc ions from an acid solution onto the positively charged cathode, which is the article to be coated. A continuous process used to produce a zinc coating on steel sheet by electroplating. Both sulfuric or hydrochloric acid solutions are used.