Experimental Investigation of Process Parameters for Conservation of Energy in Ferrous Foundries

Production Engineering

The continued crises in energy and the lack of efficient energy conservation practices in many foundries, there arises a need to identify the factors that have the higher potential to save the energy. The study in this paper would present the Energy Audit of the “melting unit” of the foundry when using ‘different quality of raw materials’. This evaluation would cover only three process parameters of the melting sector of the foundry – viz. charge material, charging practice and radiation loss. This will give us a brief overview of the energy consumption of the foundry for melting different quality of charge materials, and thus the same can be compared with the difference in cost incurred to the foundry by the use of such qualities of scrap as their raw material for production. It will also present the study for the radiation loss that occurs during the melting phase. This study of radiation loss will help us to provide with the actual comparison of the amount of the energy that can be saved by the utilization of such technique. The results obtained from this study would help the foundries to choose proper quality of raw material, and thus will enhance the efficiency and would reduce the cost of production of the foundry.

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