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Metallurgical Industrial Furnaces 2
Metallurgical Industrial Furnaces 2
Resistance heating usually involves the high electricity costs, and can
require circulating fans to assure the temperature uniformity
achievable by the flow motion of the POC in a fuel-fired furnace. Silicon
(Si) control rectifiers have made input modulation more economical
with resistance heating. Various materials are used for electric furnace
resistors. Most are of a nickel–chromium (Ni-Cr) alloy, in the form of
rolled strip or wire, or of cast zigzag grids (mostly for convection). Other
resistor materials are molten glass, granular carbon (C), solid C,
graphite, or silicon carbide (SiC) (glow bars, mostly for radiation). It is
sometimes possible to use the charge which is being heated as a
resistor.
Both preheating the charge and preheating combustion air are used
together in steam generators, rotary drum calciners, metal heating
furnaces, and tunnel kilns.