Energy Efficiency Model for Induction Furnace

2017 International Conference on Aerospace Technology, Communications and Energy Systems

航空航天工程;无线电电子学;能源学

Kr Dey, Asit^1

Department: Process Energy and Environmental Technology Station, University of Johannesburg, South Africa^1

关键词: Automation technology;    Data acquisition system;    Internal conversions;    Multifaceted systems;    Operating condition;    Process control models;    Specific energy consumption;    System improvements;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/302/1/012047/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/302/1/012047

学科分类：航空航天科学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, a system of a solar induction furnace unit was design to find out a new solution for the existing AC power consuming heating process through Supervisory control and data acquisition system. This unit can be connected directly to the DC system without any internal conversion inside the device. The performance of the new system solution is compared with the existing one in terms of power consumption and losses. This work also investigated energy save, system improvement, process control model in a foundry induction furnace heating framework corresponding to PV solar power supply. The results are analysed for long run in terms of saving energy and integrated process system. The data acquisition system base solar foundry plant is an extremely multifaceted system that can be run over an almost innumerable range of operating conditions, each characterized by specific energy consumption. Determining ideal operating conditions is a key challenge that requires the involvement of the latest automation technologies, each one contributing to allow not only the acquisition, processing, storage, retrieval and visualization of data, but also the implementation of automatic control strategies that can expand the achievement envelope in terms of melting process, safety and energy efficiency.