Design and operation of an experimental reverberatory aluminum furnace
Conference
·
OSTI ID:899662
- Univ. of Kentucky
- ORNL
- ANL
The U. S. Dept. of Energy, Albany Research Center, in cooperation with industrial support through Secat, Inc. has designed, built and is operating a test-bed reverberatory furnace. Studies in the Albany Research Center (ARC) experimental reverberatory furnace (ERF) include melt efficiency as a function of combustion space volume, power input and charge alloy. This paper details the furnace design, experimental equipment, conditions, procedure, and measurements and includes results and discussions of melt efficiency studies. Specific results reported include an analysis of the overall efficiency of the furnace as a function of power input and the effect of hanging the combustion space volume on the melting efficiency. An analytic analysis of the theoretical efficiency of the furnace is carried out to determine overall characteristics of the furnace. Experimental data is utilized to validate numerical (computational fluid dynamics) predictions.
- Research Organization:
- Albany Research Center (ARC), Albany, OR
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE)
- OSTI ID:
- 899662
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ARC-2005-021
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Energy efficient operation of aluminum furnaces
Scale modeling of aluminum melting furnaces
An analytical furnace model for optimizing aluminum melting furnaces
Conference
·
Fri Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2004
·
OSTI ID:899682
Scale modeling of aluminum melting furnaces
Conference
·
Mon Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 2005
·
OSTI ID:899666
An analytical furnace model for optimizing aluminum melting furnaces
Conference
·
Mon Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 2005
· Light Metals (Proceedings)
·
OSTI ID:901685