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http://dx.doi.org/10.5855/ENERGY.2017.26.4.100

Experimental Study of Workpiece Temperature Variation in Reheating Furnace  

Lee, Chunsik (Plant Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering)
Lee, Jaeyong (Plant Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering)
Ryu, Bo-Hyun (Plant Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering)
Yeom, Choongsub (Plant Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering)
Rhim, Dong-Ryul (Plant Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering)
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Abstract
The materials of SUS304 and SS400 are adopted for prediction of workpiece temperature variation according to ambient temperature in a reheating furnace. Five thermocouples were installed in a depth direction inside the material, and the ambient temperature was raised to 1200 Celsius degrees. As a result, the material average temperature reached more than 1150 Celsius degrees, and the surface and inside of workpiece locally showed a temperature difference of more than 10K. In order to verify the experimental results, numerical analysis was conducted by applying a thermal model, and the error of numerical simulation compared with the experimental results was within the range of 15K at the average outlet temperature. Also, the error was relatively higher in the SS400 material, which has a larger specific heat change than the SUS304 material. In conclusion, the workpiece temperature in the reheating furnace can be achieved through the atmospheric temperature control, and it is experimentally proved that the material temperature change according to the atmospheric temperature can be estimated within about 3% error range at the outlet position using a thermal model.
Keywords
Reheating Furnace; Thermal Model; Workpiece Temperature; Ambient Temperature;
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