Customized Dual Fuel Industrial Furnace. Applications in Industry & Academia

Document from the year 2025 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai (Datta Meghe College of Engineering), language: English, abstract: This research work is mainly intensive on the optimization of dual fuel-fired industrial furnace design, optimization, simulation, commissioning, and efficiency up-gradation by way of waste heat recovery. Heat loss recovery from the furnace helps reduce global warming and pollution control, which is a part of our social responsibility. Temperature uniformity within a charge ensures 0% rejection in the production process and better-quality product. Thrust will be given on this parameter during the research work. Case studies and personal interviews were carried out to get feedback on the present Indian scenario. Briefly, an Industrial furnace is an Insulated enclosure in which the charge in other words: Job, Load is heated using combustion of fuel or electricity to the desired degree for Melting, Reheating & Heat Treatment to Ferrous & Non- ferrous metals and their alloys to acquire different shapes, properties for further applications like Casting, Reheating, Forging, Galvanizing, Extrusion, Heat Treatment for ferrous and non-ferrous metals & their alloys. The India heat treating market size was valued at USD 3.8 Billion in 2016 & is estimated to register a remarkable CAGR (Compound annual growth rate) of 7.5% from 2017 to 2027 as per Industry Grandview research report, 2018-2027. The furnace's efficiency is considered 30% for design calculations globally for metal & its alloys treatment. This indicates that almost 70% of the heat will waste leads to global warming, pollution problem, and high running cost of the furnace machine. Hence the research is mainly focused on recovering these heat losses to upgrade the environmental conditions like global warming and pollution control. This will also enhance furnace efficiency with a considerable reduction in running costs. Safety is the most critical factor for personnel working under such hot conditions & risk. Research thrust will also be given on fully automated furnaces modeling, simulation during commissioning. A case study and research on live projects will be carried out towards a fully automated furnace for experimentation of the study and research work done for validation. An essential task of the study and research work is to find out the feasibility for development in the present scenario and implementation of the same practices for the safety of personnel, green environment by the complete combustion of fuel and enhance furnace efficiency & minimizes cost.