Energy Saving Melting and Revert Reduction Technology (E-SMARRT): Melting Efficiency Improvement

Principal Investigator Kent Peaslee ; Co-PI????????????????????????????????????????????????s: Von Richards, Jeffrey Smith

关键词: metalcasting;    casting;    steel casting;    melting efficiency;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1051407
RP-ID  :  NA
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1051407

学科分类：能源（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Steel foundries melt recycled scrap in electric furnaces and typically consume 35-100% excess energy from the theoretical energy requirement required to pour metal castings. This excess melting energy is multiplied by yield losses during casting and finishing operations resulting in the embodied energy in a cast product typically being three to six times the theoretical energy requirement. The purpose of this research project was to study steel foundry melting operations to understand energy use and requirements for casting operations, define variations in energy consumption, determine technologies and practices that are successful in reducing melting energy and develop new melting techniques and tools to improve the energy efficiency of melting in steel foundry operations.