A CFD simulation of melting furnace for the production of stone wool
Simulation provides substantial information about the melter’s operating conditions
Newsletter EnginSoft Year 16 n°4
By Thomas Tripolini | Gamma Meccanica
Gamma Meccanica’s R&D department is constantly researching new solutions to improve the overall performance of equipment, production capacity and reliability while developing environmentally sustainable processes and applications to benefit its customers.
This paper presents a numerical model for a melting furnace for
stone wool. The numerical model was designed using Ansys Fluent. The model includes all the main aspects of the real
process (the electrical field, the heat transfer process and the fluid
dynamics of the melt).
The CFD simulation provided a lot of information about the
operating conditions of the electric melter while considering the
hypothesis of the dissipation terms. A proper validation on site
in the field will enable us to obtain a more reliable setup of the
model, to reflect reality as closely as possible.
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