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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Numerical Analysis of the Heat Transfer Through a Heat Treatment Furnace
Submission Author:
Paulo Gabriel Cunha Martins , SP
Co-Authors:
Kesiany Máxima de Souza, Felipe Barbosa , Olexiy Shynkarenko, Paulo Gabriel Cunha Martins
Presenter: Paulo Gabriel Cunha Martins
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-1136
Abstract
The present study is focused on the presentation of numerical analysis that were applied during a project of an electric furnace developed by a student group from the University of Brasília. The heat treatment furnace was developed with the educational objective to assist some student projects during an analysis of some materials treatment that requires a temperature of experimentation lower than 1200°C, for example, aluminum melting or steel tempering. Along the project, the student group were faced with some challenges that aren't easily solved, like on the design and choice of materials for the furnace and the calculation of the temperature changing over time inside the furnace. Like there isn't any simple analytical method that could be used to calculate the temperature distribution inside the electric furnace or its rate change over time operation, it were realized some numerical analysis to determine those properties, in order to save money and input some reliability during the manufacturing process. The first analysis was carried out to validate the materials chosen and the design of the furnace, while on the second analysis was determined the temperature variation over time operation in the furnace during the heating and cooling process.
Keywords
Heat treatment, Transient Heat Transfer, electric furnace, finite elements method, thermal simulation
