Research on the Thermal Work of the Drum-Type Chamber Furnace with a Constant Temperature of the Working Space

Abstract

In the report the scheme and features of thermal work of the chamber furnace of drum type for heating of metal products under hardening are presented. The technical characteristics of the furnace, some results of thermal calculation are shown. Computer simulation of gas motion and heat exchange processes in the furnace are presented. The study was performed using CAE-system (CAE, Computer aided Engineering) – software module ANSYS Fluent. Boundary conditions of flow flow flow were set in this module. To verify the convergence of the calculations, the control of the current values and calculated temperature residuals was used. The simulation results are presented graphically and contain a visualization of the temperature and velocity distribution fields, as well as a vector distribution of gas flow velocities. The obtained results of computer simulation allowed to estimate the efficiency of thermal and gas-dynamic work of the developed design of the chamber drum-type furnace with a constant temperature of the working space. The developed design of the furnace for heating metal billets with the movement of billets in the furnace on the drum allows to solve some problems of resource and energy saving, can also be used for heat treatment of bars, pipes, strips, and rolled bars of various shapes.