In the world's competitive industrial market, the development of existing manufacturing
equipment's such as industrial reheating furnaces (IRFs) increases profitability in terms of …

The iron and steel industry, responsible for 8% of global energy use, faces challenges in
achieving low-carbon development. Reheating furnaces consume 67% of the energy in …

Oxygen-enriched combustion is widely used in industrial furnaces. To elucidate the multi-
physics properties of reheating process, this study numerically explores the flow and …

The slab heating process inside a walking-beam reheating furnace is critical for slab quality.
This paper presents a comprehensive CFD model simulating the fuel combustion, flow field …

This paper develops a comprehensive numerical model of an industrial-scale walking-beam
reheating furnace integrated with an improved oxidation model. The model demonstrates …

Precise knowledge of the heat transfer in a reheating furnace is important for optimizing the
slab production process. In the present work, a new comprehensive CFD (Computational …

Due to the existence of cooling water pipes and thermoduric skids in the walking beam type
reheating furnace, skid marks always occur on the bottom of the steel slab and the quality of …

The roller hearth furnace is numerically investigated to analyze and optimize its
performance. It is essential to apply the temperature control model and the material transport …

The effect of latent heat via phase transformation on the thermal behavior of a billet was
investigated during the heating process. The latent heat of the billet strongly affected the …

Due to the extreme use of fossil fuels and increasing environmental problems, the steel
industries have been always seeking solutions to decrease energy consumption. These …