The aim of the thesis entitled Material and energy balance of a chamber heating furnace 33 for heating ingots was to find out how to develop a material balance model containing the quantities and types of materials used and an energy balance model explaining the processes of energy use for heating the furnace and the ingots, the processes of energy loss, and the efficiency of the heating system itself.
We were also interested in the use of analyses of the ingot heating process to show easy-to-read descriptions of the ingot heating process in the chamber heating furnace, to gain insight into the process parameters and their impact on the material and energy balance, and to assess the efficiency of the heating system and opportunities for improvement.
Different ingots were used as input material. The ingots were fed into the furnace where they were heated to a set temperature. Each piece was heated according to a temperature programme, where it lasted long enough to achieve a homogenisation process of the microstructure.
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