EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF MATERIAL CONSUMPTION

Kushal G. Ambli

Abstract: Foundry is one of the most Energy intensive metallurgical industries. The major part of the energy consumed in Foundry is in the melting units. Energy also contributes to the major cost input to the production of castings. Besides its, high energy consumption is upbringing the threat of climate change and global warming. Therefore it becomes very much necessary to look into various means by which energy consumption in melting units can be minimized considerably. Much of the work is being done by many Foundry men to reduce specific energy consumption in liquid metal preparation. Operational uncertainties create disincentives for use of recycled materials in metal production. One that greatly influences remelter batch optimization is variation in the raw material composition, particularly for secondary materials. Currently, to accommodate compositional variation, firms commonly set production targets well inside the window of compositional specification required for performance reasons.

Keywords: OPTIMIZATION OF MATERIAL

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303014