AFS Cupola Model Verification--Initial Investigations

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1998 · Transactions of the American Foundrymen's Society

OSTI ID:923431

King, P E; Higgins, L G; Stanek, V ^[1]; Larsen, E D ^[2]; Clark, D E ^[2]; Moore, K L ^[3]

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1. Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Prague
2. INEL
3. Idaho State U., Pocatello

The cupola furnace is used to melt scrap steel, pig iron, foundry returns, and alloying additives to a prescribed tapping chemistry and temperature for iron casting applications. The melting process within the cupola is highly complex and not well quantified. The American Foundrymen's Society is developing a mathematical model to aid in the understanding of these processes. This model is reaching maturity, and has been successful in estimating a number of melting parameters. This paper details the results of efforts to verify the model in a controlled system, equipped wit the appropriate sensors, for model verification. The work was performed on a research-scale cupola furnace located at the Department of Energy's Albany Research Center.

• Research Organization: Albany Research Center (ARC), Albany, OR; Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho Falls, ID; Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Fossil Energy (FE); National Technology Transfer Center
• OSTI ID: 923431
• Report Number(s): DOE/ARC-1997-026; USBM contract no. J0134035; National Technology Transfer Center contract no. B17961; ISBN: 0-87433-185-4
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Foundrymen's Society Journal Volume: 105
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ADDITIVES
CASTING
CHEMISTRY
FURNACES
IRON
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MELTING
SCRAP
VERIFICATION
cupola furnace
mathematical modeling
melting
scrap metal