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A numerical model using the commercial software ANSYS Fluent was previously established for one of Hydro Aluminium’s furnaces at the Rolling Mill plant in Karmøy, Norway, to analyze heat transfer conditions in the 35-ton casthouse furnace. The model was extended to evaluate a low temperature oxy-fuel burner technology different from the burners currently used today. It incorporates gas flow, chemical reactions, conduction, convection and radiation along with latent heat release. A steady state model with a heat sink was used to attain representative furnace conditions before switching to transient calculation. The focus of this work is to look at the influence of possible turbulence models and combustion models for this setup. Results confirm clear differences between the applied turbulence models and combustion models.
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Furu, J., Buchholz, A. (2015). Numerical Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Full Scale Industry Furnace. In: Hyland, M. (eds) Light Metals 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48248-4_150
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