Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of Mixed Fuel Fired Furnace for Aluminum Melting

P Prabhakara Rao¹, Sampath V²

^1,2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal, India

Abstract

Many foundries use coal as a major source for heating the furnaces which causes serious pollution to the environment. Around 6.6 billion tons of hard coal was used worldwide last year and 1 billion tons of brown coal. Since 2000, global coal consumption has grown faster than any other fuel. The manufacturing philosophy is to eliminate the use of heating elements requiring coal power and electrical power which is highly used in the region (AP).

Deliberate attempts were made to reduce the consumption of coke by replacing it with charcoal and oil. As a part of the project mixed fuel fired furnace have been designed and fabricated. For this purpose some initial melting and performance tests were performed using Aluminum alloy melting after initial test design modifications hade made to reduce the heat losses. Finally Mixed fuel furnace that runs on coke and diesel oil for melting non-ferrous alloys have been installed successfully eventually This furnace can be effectively utilized as a melting furnace in our foundry laboratory.

Keywords

• Coke fired furnace, Performance analysis, Crucible furnaceoil fired furnace, Mixed fuel fired furnace

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P Prabhakara Rao, Sampath V. Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of Mixed Fuel Fired Furnace for Aluminum Melting. International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 59-66. Print.