EFFECT OF REFUSE-GAS FUEL USE ON ENERGY-CONSUMPTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL PUSHER FURNACE

Authors
BOJIC M TOMIC M
Citation
M. Bojic et M. Tomic, EFFECT OF REFUSE-GAS FUEL USE ON ENERGY-CONSUMPTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL PUSHER FURNACE, Energy (Oxford), 23(9), 1998, pp. 767-775
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Engineering, Chemical
Journal title
Energy (Oxford) → ACNP
ISSN journal
03605442
Volume
23
Issue
9
Year of publication
1998
Pages
767 - 775
Database
ISI
SICI code
0360-5442(1998)23:9<767:EORFUO>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
To save natural gas (NG) in heating steel slabs, a heat-recovery devic e (HRD) is used in a metallurgical pusher furnace together with refuse blast-furnace gas (RBFG) and O-2. These NG-saving techniques are eval uated by using finite-time thermodynamics; The results indicate that m ixing a higher percentage of RBFG with NG does not necessarily save NG . However, a higher percentage of O-2 in air and a larger HRD do save NG. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.