TY - GEN
T1 - Reverberatory furnace CFD modeling for efficient design
T2 - ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2018
AU - Alshehhi, Saeed
AU - Hassan Ali, Mohamed I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by Khalifa University of Science and Technology for the MSc scholarship program.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 ASME.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Reverberatory furnaces improper burners and chimney location would cause a significant scape of hot gases and shorten their residence time in the furnace and therefore reduce the convective heat transfer opportunity to the metal and walls surfaces. Appropriate burners location and orientation, as well as the chimney location, are very expensive to adjust in practical furnaces by trial and error to maximize the furnace performance. This study aimed to develop a validated 3-D CFD furnace model for studying the effect of burners’ location and orientation, chimney location and flow momentum on the hot gases residence time, heat transfer, flow and temperature distribution as well as the overall exergetic efficiency of the furnace. The results reflect the optimum design parameters for maximizing the furnace performance.
AB - Reverberatory furnaces improper burners and chimney location would cause a significant scape of hot gases and shorten their residence time in the furnace and therefore reduce the convective heat transfer opportunity to the metal and walls surfaces. Appropriate burners location and orientation, as well as the chimney location, are very expensive to adjust in practical furnaces by trial and error to maximize the furnace performance. This study aimed to develop a validated 3-D CFD furnace model for studying the effect of burners’ location and orientation, chimney location and flow momentum on the hot gases residence time, heat transfer, flow and temperature distribution as well as the overall exergetic efficiency of the furnace. The results reflect the optimum design parameters for maximizing the furnace performance.
KW - Aluminum Furnaces
KW - Gas Fired Furnaces
KW - Metal Holding Furnaces
KW - Reverberatory Furnaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063784722&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2018-87843
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2018-87843
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85063784722
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
BT - Energy
Y2 - 9 November 2018 through 15 November 2018
ER -