2014 The design and performance of a versatile closed, light (0,9 kg), high temperature furnace adapted to the needs of a neutron four-circle diffractometer is reported. It operates between 330 and 1 200 K with a long term stability of better than 0.05 K. There are few restrictions on the movement of the circles; only the 03A6-range is limited to 200°. The furnace operates under high vacuum (ty...

Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) is generated in considerable amounts by the electric arc steelmaking process. During melting in an electric arc furnace, certain elements volatilize, and form fine dusts after cooling. The EAFD is collected in a baghouse and amounts to approximately 1–2 wt% of the steel produced.1) In China, about 800 million tons of steel was produced in 2015 with more than 9 w...

Single crystals of (Cd,Zn)Te are an excellent substrate material for epitaxial growth of (Hg,Cd)Te layers and are usually grown by the vertical Bridgman method. We present a simulation of the whole growth process in two steps: In the rst step, the (stationary) heat transport in the furnace is modeled and calculated for diierent positions of the ampoule. This gives information about the most imp...

Reheating furnace is an essential facility of a rod mill plant where a billet is heated to the required rolling temperature so that it can be milled to produce wire. Although it is very important to obtain information on billet temperatures, it is not feasible during furnace operation. Consequently, a billet temperature profile should be estimated. Moreover, this estimation should be done withi...

laboratory and industrial scale experiments are made on the application of sponge iron pellets and briquettes for the production of cast iron and steel in different melting systems, such as electric induction furnace, electric resistance furnace and fuel-fired crucible furnace. effect of various variables such as specifications of sponge iron, temperature of the molten metal and the method of f...

The Bridgman furnace is widely used in industry and research. This paper outlines a working 1-dimensional model for tracking the columnar solidification front in a Bridgman furnace where the pulling velocity, and hence front position, change as a function of time. The front tracking model is applied to a fixed grid of control volumes using an explicit numerical finite difference scheme to solve...