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IRON AND STEEL

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Agglomeration
  • Coking
  • Blast Furnace
  • Direct Reduction
  • Basic Oxygen Furnace
  • Electric Arc Furnace
  • Heat Treating
  • Ladle Metallurgy
  • Continuous Casting
  • Ingot Casting
  • Ladle Preheating
  • Secondary Finishing
  • Surface Coating

ALUMINUM

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Mining/Primary Processing
  • Recycle/Scrap Melting
  • Aluminum Casting
  • Aluminum Smelting
  • Anode Baking
  • Bauxite Mining
  • Bauxite Refining
  • Extrusion
  • Forging
  • Heat Treating
  • Molten Handling
  • Rolling

Heattreating: Energy Consumption

energy_consumption

Equipment
Combustion Technology
Energy Consumption
Process Description
R&D Trends

Typical batch annealing furnace energy consumption is on the order or 1.2 MMBtu/ton. Direct fired recuperative burners can achieve 0.85 MMBtu/ton. Energy consumption for a continuous strip annealing line ranges from 1-1.5 MMBtu/ton.

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