Temperature control of a continuous, push type, five zone, slab reheating furnace for minimum fuel usage. Volume I. Text and Appendix A

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6397505

Purdy, D J; Williams, T J

This report treats the reheat furnace used to heat slabs from the slabbing mill up to the rolling temperature for the hot strip mill. It determines the minimum fuel rates needed to achieve required outlet temperatures as a function of production rate. It also presents a scheme carrying out the transition from one steady state operating level to another with a near minimum of fuel usage. A method for using this transition scheme on a process control computer is also presented here.

• Research Organization: Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA). Purdue Lab. for Applied Industrial Control
• DOE Contract Number: AS07-80CS40361
• OSTI ID: 6397505
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/40361-T19-Vol.1; PUR-91-Vol.1; ON: DE85014923
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis. Submitted by D.J. Purdy
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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