| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials Processing Fundamentals: Thermodynamics and Rate Phenomena
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| Presentation Title |
Study of the Heating System of a Metallurgical Crucible Through Experimentation and Numerical Simulation |
| Author(s) |
Brayann Alvarado, José Ángel Ramos Banderas, Constantin Alberto Hernández Bocanegra, Mario Ulises Calderón Rojas, Gildardo Solorio Diaz, Nancy Margarita López Granados |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Brayann Alvarado |
| Abstract Scope |
The heating process of a metallurgical crucible used to contain and distribute liquid steel extracted from melting furnaces was analyzed using computational tools. Numerical simulation of the current heating system was conducted, where the geometries of the furnace and metallurgical crucible were recreated, and a computational domain mesh was designed. The governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy, turbulence, species transport, and radiation in the system were solved. Experimental data from a setup using Type-K thermocouples were used to validate the numerical thermal model. It was found that the current system operated inefficiently, resulting in increased heating time and heterogeneous heat distribution in the metallurgical crucible. Therefore, a new system was proposed and implemented to homogenize heat distribution and reduce heating time in the metallurgical crucible |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Other |