@inproceedings{0f61ce6cb49d423ab30c1381146af90b,
title = "Design and operation of an experimental reverberatory aluminum furnace",
abstract = "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 changing 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.",
keywords = "Aluminum furnace, Aluminum melting, Energy efficiency, Furnace model",
author = "King, {P. E.} and Hayes, {M. C.} and T. Li and Q. Han and M. Hassan and Golchert, {B. M.}",
year = "2005",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9780873395809",
series = "TMS Light Metals",
pages = "899--904",
editor = "H. Kvande",
booktitle = "Light Metals 2005 - Proceedings of the Technical Sessions Presented by the TMS Aluminium Committee",
note = "134th TMS Annual Meeting ; Conference date: 13-02-2005 Through 17-02-2005",
}
