AFS Cupola Model Verification--Initial Investigations
- Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Prague
- INEL
- 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 (United States); 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
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-76ID01579
- OSTI ID:
- 923431
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ARC-1997-026; ISBN 0-87433-185-4; USBM contract no. J0134035; National Technology Transfer Center contract no. B17961; TRN: US200804%%1125
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Foundrymen's Society, Vol. 105; Conference: 101st Annual AFS Casting Congress, Seattle, WA, Apr. 20-23, 1997; ISSN 0065-8375
- Publisher:
- American Foundry Society, Des Plaines, IL
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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