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Quantitative Measurements and Characterization: The Key to Optimal Reverberatory Aluminum Melting Furnace Design
Designing an efficient reverberatory aluminum melting furnace is a complex undertaking. It requires careful consideration of various factors that directly affect its performance, energy consumption, and ultimately, your return on investment (ROI). Among these factors, the circulation pump’s sizing, placement, and control play a crucial role. Let’s explore how quantitative measurements and characterization lead to informed decisions in these areas, ensuring optimal furnace system design.
Expertly Optimized Solutions
High Temperature Systems, Inc. partners with melt department managers, supervisors, and engineers to craft complete solutions and solve problems that are beyond the reach of industry off-the-shelf solutions. Drawing from our standard product lines and more than 50 years of experience, we can craft solutions unique to your applications and furnace implementations. These solutions encompass aluminum, zinc and lead operations from die casting to galvanizing.
Circulate Continuously - Transfer on Demand
The ideal solution for these furnaces would be a single compact pump that performs both the circulation function and the transfer function. Such a pump would require a mechanism to redirect the output of the pump impeller to either a circulation nozzle or a transfer riser.
Why Should I Use a Circulation Pump?
In most real world applications, any one of these benefits results in savings that more than offsets the cost of a circulation pump. As an example, a properly sized and operated circulation pump can increase overall furnace throughput 15% and in some cases 30% for a small fraction of the cost of a furnace expansion project.