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This is the heart of any hot rolling mill where in the charge is heated to rolling temperature. The charge could be in the form of billets, blooms, slabs or ingots. The type of furnace could be pusher, walking hearth or walking beam either top fired or top and bottom fired. The fuel used could be either oil or gas. The burners are located in a manner so as to achieve uniform heat distribution. The radiation heat energy is efficiently transferred through the useful heat transfer area created by the charge bed. The furnace is basically divided into three zones namely preheating, heating and soaking zones. The actual heating takes place in the heating zone. The temperature uniformity up to desired limits between the core and the surface is achieved in the soaking zone. The flue gases move in a direction opposite to that of the charge thereby ensuring considerable amount of waste heat recovery by convection in the preheating zone, which is also termed as the recuperative zone. For charge with higher thickness as in case of blooms and slabs, burners are provided below and above the skids as against conventional furnaces where burners are provided only on the top. This is known as top and bottom fired Reheating Furnace. Our furnaces are highly fuel efficient due to proper roof profile / zonal distribution, optimum preheating / recuperative zone lengths, proper burner / flue port locations and good instrumentation including furnace chamber pressure control eliminating atmosphere air ingress, which also reduces the scale loss and decarb of the charge. The furnaces could be side charged through water cooled driven rollers or front charged by hydraulic pusher. Discharge can be at the side, through driven water cooled rollers or discharge ejector with pinch-cum-pullout roll mechanism or end discharge through discharge ramp or slab / bloom extractor.
In the Billet Re Heating Furnaces, the charge is fed in the form of billets or ingots. It is a precision engineered product which is widely used across different industries for various applications. It is used mostly in steel rolling mills. The best feature of these billet reheating furnaces is its minimum fuel consumption & minimum burning losses .
Fig. 1: Rotary hearth furnace [?240?] Rotary-Hearth Furnaces-Some of the important advantages of rotary-hearth furnaces are: Rotary-hearth furnaces eliminate either the manual labor required for rolling rounds forward on horizontal or moderately sloped hearths, or the disadvantages of excessively sloped hearth in continuous furnaces. They have better means for controlling the rate of heating at all temperature levels than batch-type furnaces. However, high capital cost per unit of production, high space per unit ratio, and low hearth area efficiency are expected with the otary-hearth furnaces. In addition, seals and wall refractories at the hearth level need to be well maintained. Walking-Beam Furnaces The early design of walking beam furnaces used alloy steel walking beams that were exposed directly to the heat of the furnace and were subject to heat corrosion, so it operated at maximum temperatures of about 1065C (1950F), compared with reheating furnaces that must heat steel to temperatures up to 1315C (2400F). Today the walking beam may consist of water-cooled steel members topped with refractories in such a manner that only the refractories are exposed directly to the heat of the furnace. Alternatively, the beams and supports may be constructed of water-cooled tubular sections (with "buttons" on the top surfaces to keep the hot steel from direct contact with the water-cooled tubes). Walking beam furnaces are now used to reheat slabs, billets and blooms, etc. Walking-beam furnaces can be designed for side or end charging and discharging. Either hydraulic or mechanical methods can be used to actuate the beams. Cross firing with side-wall burners above and