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Eclipse offers the best in combustion products, systems and technical service for customers around the world, delivering safe, reliable, efficient and clean equipment for a wide range of heating applications. Contact: Patrick O’Keefe, 815-877-3031 www.eclipsenet.com

Ceramic Solutions is a sales and distribution company specializing in technical ceramics. We offer closed and open end, feed-through, immersion, multi and single bore, top hats, furnace, heating element and support tubes and insulators, ribbed, grooved, flat, hearth and setter plates, rollers and AL99.8 labware. Contact: Bill Bolt, 936-588-2646 www.ceramicsolutionsconroe.com

Hauck Manufacturing Co. Hauck Manufacturing Company offers a wide range of combustion products including burners, blowers and controls and Kromschroder burners and control products. Contact: Michael Shay, 717-272-3051 www.hauckburner.com

WS Thermal Process Technology: High-Efficiency Burners We offer the most efficient direct-fired and radiant tube burners and are a world leader in ceramic radiant-tube technology with over 15 years of experience. Contact: Lee Rabe, 440-365-8029 www.flox.com

Yeten Yeten has been working on the heating systems of industrial furnaces for 25 years. We produce burners and control equipment for our customers. Contact: Ibrahim Turan, +90 216 420 22 18 www.yeten.com

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COOLING SYSTEMS Dry Coolers, Inc. Dry Coolers, Inc. is a major supplier of industrial cooling systems and professional engineering services. Dry Coolers is experienced in working with contractors to assist in the design and manufacture of industrial process cooling solutions. Our cooling systems range in size from small point-of-service cooling to large, complex plant-wide systems. Contact: Brian Russell, 800-525-8173 www.drycoolers.com

CONTROLS, INSTRUMENTATION & TESTING EQUIPMENT AFFRI Inc: Testing Equipment AFFRI Inc. is a manufacturer and seller of Rockwell, Rockwell/ Superficial, Brinell, Micro/Macro, Vickers/Knoop, universal and portable hardness testers. We offer custom in-line hardness testing. Contact: Roberto Affri, 224-374-0931 www.affri.com

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ASCO Numatics offers comprehensive fluid automation solutions, including fluid control and fluid power products, for a wide range of industry-focused applications. www.asconumatics.com

Industrial manufacturer of heat-treating furnaces, including controlled carburizing, nitriding and vacuum carburizing. Surface Combustion offers continuous or batch furnaces with atmosphere gas generators and process controls. Contact: Daniel E. Goodman, 419-891-7150 www.surfacecombustion.com

FURNACES & OVENS Can-Eng Furnaces, Ltd.: Furnaces, Heat Treating Leading North American designer and manufacturer of heattreating equipment for ferrous and nonferrous metals. Products include furnaces, auxiliary equipment, atmosphere generators and process-control systems. Quality management system is registered to ISO 9001:2000. Contact: Steve Cropper, 905-356-1327; [email protected] www.can-eng.com

Centorr Vacuum Industries Centorr Vacuum Industries offers its new MIM-Vac ‘M’ line of custom metal hot-zone furnaces for Metal Injection Molding and handles all binders and feedstocks. Contact: Scott Robinson, 603-595-7233 www.centorr.com

Wellman Furnaces: Heat-Processing Systems Specializing in continuous or batch process; small or large loads; long or shot cycle; fixed or variable process; electric or fuel fired. Contact: Bob Longstreet, 317-398-4411, ext. 211 www.wellmanfurnaces.com

Wisconsin Oven Corp.: Ovens Wisconsin Oven offers: custom and standard models; gas or electric; temperatures to 1400˚F; factory tested and adjusted. Contact: Gary Hanson, 262-642-3938; [email protected] www.wisoven.com

HEATING ELEMENTS G-M Enterprises: Heat-Treating Furnaces G-M manufactures a wide range of furnaces, including vacuum, box, bell, batch and continuous. Contact: Suresh Jhawar, 951-340-4646 www.gmenterprises.com

Ipsen Inc.: Heat-Treating Equipment Ipsen manufactures, retrofits and services vacuum and atmosphere thermal-processing equipment for TurboTreater, TITAN, MetalMaster,VFS HEQ/HIQ/VDS, aluminum brazers, vacuum carburizing, vacuum oil quench, Ivadizer and atmosphere products. Contact: Mark Heninger, 815-332-2512 www.ipsenusa.com

Pyromaitre Through innovative energy-saving solutions and process expertise, Pyromaitre delivers precision heat-transfer ovens with the lowest total cost of ownership. Contact: 418-831-2576 www.pyromaitre.com

SECO/WARWICK Corp: Heat -Treating Equipment Heat-treating equipment manufacturer offers Metal Minutes Newsletter and Heat Treating Data Book free of charge - click at the link at the top of our home page and sign up today! Contact: Wojtek Modrzyk, [email protected] www.secowarwick.com

INEX INEX offers a wide range of composite radiant tube shapes including straight-through, U-tubes, closed-ended and segmented in various lengths and diameters. Contact: Mike Kasprzyk, 716-537-2270 www.inexinc.net

HOT ZONES Americarb: Hot Zone Replacement Complete hot-zone replacement kits at industry competitive pricing. Replacement kits for many vacuum furnaces, including DSS, CZ and ALD hot-zone models. Contact: 419-281-5800, [email protected] www.americarb.com

INDUCTION HEATING EQUIPMENT CEIA USA CEIA manufactures induction heating generators, controllers and pyrometers that enable closed-loop feedback for precision heating. Designed for seamless integration into automation, CEIA’s generators can handle endless applications. Contact: 330-405-3190 www.ceia-usa.com

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Induction Tooling, Inc.: Induction Equipment & Services Induction Tooling is widely recognized as the premier manufacturer of tooling for induction hardening. Our excellent reputation is the result of building high-quality inductors. Contact: David Lynch, [email protected] www.inductiontooling.com

Inductotherm Group: Thermal-Processing Equipment Inductotherm Group is a fully global group of manufacturing companies providing products such as: induction melting, induction heating and heat treating, induction welding, and vacuum induction melting and refining systems. Contact: Lauren Trimble, 609-267-9000 www.inductothermgroup.com

High-temperature insulation products including Fiberfrax ceramic fiber, Insulfrax and Isofrax soluble fiber, and Foamfrax thermal insulation. Contact: Virginia Cantara, 716-278-3832 www.unifrax.com

THERMOCOUPLES NANMAC Corporation: High-Performance Thermocouples & RTDs NANMAC offers a full line of standard and custom thermocouples and RTDs for replacement, OEM and Research applications. NANMAC also has Inventory stocking programs to suit your needs. Contact: Doug Joy, 508-872-4811; [email protected] www.nanmac.com

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CONTENTS

June 2011 • Vol. LXXIX • No. 6

On the Cover:

A R T I C L E S

As a cost of doing business, energy is a much more significant component than it was a few decades ago. The article on p. 45 focuses on what we can do to save electricity.

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Regenerative Burners or Oxy-Fuel Burners for Your Furnace Upgrade? Jared S. Kaufman & Josh Marino – Tenova Core; Coraopolis, Pa. Recent furnace combustion system upgrades are being motivated by the desire to increase production, reduce CO2 and save energy costs. Of the available technologies, two of the most intriguing are regenerative burners and oxy-fuel burners.

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Cut Costs and Stay Competitive with Advanced Energy Management Bob Zak – Powerit Solutions North America; Seattle, Wash. With the economy still challenging and competitive pressures continuing to rise, reducing expenses is imperative for industrial businesses. Yet many underestimate or neglect a key source of savings – the electricity bill.

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Industrial Gases/Combustion

Ceramics & Refractories/Insulation

It’s Easy Being Green Wendell Keith and Reto Fehr – Keith Company; Pico Rivera, Calif. Today, in our energy- and environmentally conscious society, being green is politically correct. It represents good environmental stewardship, and it is more profitable for your company to become green than you may realize!

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Energy Conservation through Proper Selection of Heat-Resistant Alloys Richard J. Grimm – Wirco, Inc.; Avilla, Ind. Energy conservation has become one of the primary issues for the heat-treating industry in the new millennium. It is important in this new business climate to look at all opportunities for increased furnace efficiency, including cast or fabricated alloy tooling.

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COLUMNS 14 Editorial CO2-Reduction Contrarian Energy savings is good for our companies and good for our world. But we should engage in energy-saving efforts for the best reasons. In spite of what we hear from most media sources, CO2 reduction is not one of the best reasons. Read the full editorial to learn why.

16 Federal Triangle Debt, Deficit and Spending – A Financial Outlook According to Barry Ashby, U.S. citizens should be prepared to face high inflation, energy costs of two to fourfold increase, problems in bank lending and continued outflow of industrial production to more hospitable venues in six to 12 months.

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18 The Heat Treat Doctor™ Martensite “Martensite is our friend,” so sayeth the heat treater, but what is martensite, really? And why is a tempered martensitic structure the single-minded goal of every heat treater when hardening steel?

22 Environmental & Safety Issues Solid-Waste Netherworlds “The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.” Mark Twain certainly would have had a field day commenting on today’s complex world of environmental regulations.

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24 MTI Profile – Metallurgical High Vacuum Corporation 26 IHEA Profile – IHEA Announces 2011-12 Officers, Board 28 Blogs in Print A new, periodic feature begins this month as we focus on one or more recent blogs and take a look at social media. June’s spotlight is on a new blogger, George Vander Voort, and his first blog post. Also, check out our Facebook friend of the month.

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Selecting the proper backfill gas and backfill system is a key aspect in proper operation of any vacuum system, whether they are for a partial-pressure atmosphere, a process gas, a quench gas or a gas used to equalize pressure between chambers for load transfer or removal.

Everyday Metallurgy The Titanic – A Study in Metal Failure The story of the Titanic is a tragic tale of life lost. We have long been intrigued with the reasons why this catastrophe occurred. Design certainly played a role, but other similarly designed ships had useful service lives. At least one “cause” can be attributed to the metal used to make the hull of the ship. The melting and forming of this material certainly contributed. An article from 1998 explains why.

George Vander Voort G iis a consultant for Struer Str uerss Lat Latrob robe e Ste SSteel te and Scot Forge. Struers, Latrobe He is also president of Vander Voort Consulting. Vander Voort has more than 40 years of industry experience and has authored more than 280 publications. A member of ASM International since 1966, he has won 34 awards for his work in metallography.

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t seems I am often the contrarian when it comes to environmental issues. My current position and quarter-century career in this industry have certainly helped form ideas that may be in opposition to the status quo. I’ll call the “status quo” what we see and hear on the national news stage. Let’s review the status quo to see how adherence to it might affect those of us in the thermal-processing world. What we experience tends to affect how we think about an issue. The climate is something that all of us experience. It’s interesting that when recent tornadoes struck in the U.S., it was the result of global warming (GW) or climate change, but when we experienced one of the coldest winters of the past decade – it was the coldest March globally since 1994 – it is also GW’s fault. I read something recently in the Boston Herald that said, “For a theory to be scientific, it must be fallible – capable of being proven false. If every weather condition can be used to ‘prove’ GW simply by being declared ‘weird,’ then it’s not science. It’s a joke.” A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article discussed The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, which is the latest attempt to find out whether recent weather trends are extreme by historic standards. Published this year, the project’s findings show no evidence of an intensifying weather trend. The climate models, which led the United Nations to predict that there would be 50 million “climate refugees” by 2010 (fail), indicate more and more extreme weather will occur as CO2 levels increase. An analyst with this project said, “We were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend going back to 1871.” These researchers from the University of Colorado added, “There’s no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather.” Forecasts from prognosticators with no GW agenda, such as Piers Corbyn and Joe Bastardi, seem to have greater accuracy than those from the status-quo forecasters. Corbyn, who uses data such as the flow of particles from the sun to make his predictions, predicted London’s severe winter weather while the government’s Met Office predicted a mild winter in keeping with the GW narrative. Corbyn believes that the cold winters of the past three years are the harbinger of a mini ice age that could be upon us by 2035. He says that it could be colder than at any time in the past 200 years. Ironically, some of this winter’s extremes were magnified by the GW narrative, not by GW. The London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation charges that British authorities are so committed to the notion that Britain’s future will be warmer that they failed to plan for the winter storms of the last three years. It was 14 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

also reported that the floods in Australia were similarly magnified in proportion because, using the narrative and fearing drought, officials would not allow any water to be released from dams and levies. The WSJ asserts, “Global-warming alarmists insist that economic activity is the problem, when the available evidence shows it to be part of the solution. We may not be able to do anything about the weather, extreme or otherwise, but we can make sure we have the resources to deal with it when it comes.”

“There’s no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather.” Why do we discuss this topic in an energy-conservation issue? Because energy conservation – a good thing – is often tied to the environmental (green) movement. Some of the goals of the environmental movement could decimate our industry and kill the U.S. economy. The WSJ indicated that even labor unions have joined the fight against the current administration’s environmental agenda. In a letter late last year, the United Steelworkers said that “tens of thousands” of jobs at factories whose employees are represented by the Steelworkers “will be imperiled” by EPA decisions. The miners’ union said the (EPA) proposal “could put at risk as many as 250,000 jobs.” A recent online piece helped me to realize why the steel industry is seeing this issue more clearly while the aluminum industry continues to support carbon cap-and-trade legislation. Agmetalminer.com reasoned that “aluminum, as a global industry, has a strategic advantage over the [largely] domestic steel industry. Climate-change legislation would handicap the steel industry while allowing the aluminum industry to leverage global supply options not subject to such legislation.” Interesting, and it’s an example of how policymakers need to think about future climate legislation/regulation. IH

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Debt, Deficit and Spending – A Financial Outlook

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h elections last autumn showed that voters see accrued he federal debt, deficit reduction and spending as a major f national concern. n In fiscal year 2011, Washington will spend $1.65 trillion more than revenues. Economist and author Walter Williams recently wrote with despair and lamented both public ignorance and willful deception by both the news media and politicians fostering lies about this subject. Remember that Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution specifies that “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.” The President of this nation has zero, zilch, zip, nada authority to raise or lower taxes. There were never any “Reagan deficits,” “Clinton surpluses,” “Bush tax cuts” or “Obama tax increases.” Congress alone, and the House of Representatives solely, is (and always has been) responsible for our now desperate financial mess. Congress can do anything it wants to regarding budgets and spending. There is no 60% of the federal budget that is off limits. There are no federal “investments” for “entitlement payments.” Government cannot create jobs. What government does is spend the people’s money as authorized and appropriated by Congress. Congressional weasels of both parties are liars when they claim anything other than these truths. Both party’s Presidents make demagogic comments to claim glory or avoid blame but, in doing so, are self-serving. Maybe this sets the stage for the topic I suggest you consider: Let’s make it personal. American families each owe about $700,000 for all government, private and corporate debt. So, debt service (annual interest) alone is about $56,000. (The $14.3 trillion total federal debt is composed of $9.7 trillion publicly owned plus $4.6 trillion intergovernmental debt. This divided among 300 million people is $48,000 per capita.) Interest needs are based on using Producer Price Index inflation rates of 5.5% and adding a risk premium of 2.5% to total 8%, and the result is about the national, per family, total income. Just to pay interest on this debt consumes all U.S. personal income. Recall that this is real debt today. It does not include implicit debt, “unfunded obligations,” to cover future commitments such as Medicare, Medicaid or federal pensions. All implicit federal debt is estimated to add $119.5 trillion more to the current debt load, but this estimate is based on the assumption that interest rates 16 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

will stay at current levels of 2.2% whereas the historical average over the past two decades has been 5.7%. This obligation is important as there are zero assets for collateral in borrowing, unless you want to consider selling 80% of western U.S. federal lands to get out from under. In order to make the debt situation more tolerable to the public, which essentially has no clue about coming fiscal calamities, the Federal Reserve Bank has printed money and issued increasingly less valuable bonds. This is termed “quantitative easing.” There is a 90% probability that at the end of June, the Fed will initiate a third round of this exercise in currency devaluation to monetize the debt. This means that your government prints money and/or bonds to pay interest on the debt. In actuality, dollars have depreciated about 50% against sound world currencies over the past two years. Remember, I told you that Congressional weasels are liars. Now you can add Federal Reserve and Treasury management to that list. All of these matters are quite important to Americans and will have significant impacts on both U.S. individuals and industry. In late April, China’s finance minister made public comments recommending that U.S. bond holdings be reduced from $3.04 trillion to about $1 trillion. This says that the largest U.S. debt holder is losing confidence in the dollar. Concurrently, Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. bond quality from stable to negative. With actual U.S. inflation already over 10%, regardless of federal spin that the public distrusts more and more, world confidence in the dollar wanes. It is evident that dollars as the reserve currency for the world is being questioned. (Transactions between countries have been denominated in dollars since World War II when the pound sterling and Europe’s economy suffered and was replaced by the dollar.) Reserve currency replacement has not been identified, but the dollar is not on the short list. There are other indicators such as the fact that almost half of world consumers buy oil with a new “basket currency,” not dollars. This is a topic still being defined. Oil purchases are no longer in dollars only. While U.S. political liberals say that “debt is only money we owe ourselves,” that is wrong if the rest of the world owns some of our debt and walks away with an expression of no confidence. Readers of this journal should be prepared in six to 12 months to face: high (even hyper) inflation, energy costs of two to fourfold increase, problems in bank lending (none) compared to today and continued outflow of industrial production to more hospitable venues. IH

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Martensite artensite is our friend,” so sayeth the heat treater, but what is martensite, really? And why is a tempered martensitic structure the single-minded goal of every heat treater when hardening steel? Let’s learn more.

Martensite Formation In order to form martensite we need to heat steel into the austenite field (above Ac3) and quench rapidly enough from the austenite phase to avoid pearlite formation. The rate must be fast enough to avoid the nose of the Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) curve – the so-called critical cooling rate for the given steel. The formation of martensite involves the structural rearrangement (by shear displacement) of the atoms from face-centered cubic (FCC) austenite into a body-centered tetragonal (BCT) martensitic structure. This change is accompanied by a large increase in volume and results in a highly stressed condition. This is why martensite has a higher hardness than austenite for the exact same chemistry. The martensite transformation, while not instantaneous, is significantly faster than diffusion-controlled processes such as ferrite and pearlite formation that have different chemical compositions than the austenite from which they came. Thus, martensite is a meta-stable, strain-induced state that steel finds itself in. The resultant steel hardness is (primarily) a function of its carbon content (Fig. 1).

lath and plate types. As the carbon content increases, so-called high-carbon martensite twins begin to replace dislocations within the plates. This transformation is accompanied by the volumetric expansion mentioned earlier, creating (residual) stress in addition to the strains due to interstitial solute atoms. At high carbon levels these stresses can become so severe that the material cracks during transformation when a growing plate impinges on an existing plate.[3] Thus, coarse martensite (Fig. 5) and plate martensite are less desirable structures in most applications. Ms and Mf Temperatures The martensite transformation begins at the martensite start (Ms) temperature and ends at the martensite finish (Mf) temperature and is influenced by carbon content. Increasing the carbon content of the austenite depresses the Ms and Mf temperatures, which leads to difficulties in converting all of the austenite to martensite. Ms and Mf temperatures are also important in welding, as they influence the residual stress state.[5] Ms and Mf temperatures can be calculated, and if you need to know them for a particular steel, one source for this data is at www.thomas-sourmail.org/martensite.html, which lists over 1,000 different steel types. 68 900 65 800

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Tempered Martensite All steels containing martensite should be tempered. As heat treaters, we need to know that martensite in steel produces a hard, brittle microstructure that must be tempered to provide the delicate balance necessary between strength and toughness needed to produce a useful engineering material. When martensite is tempered, it partially decomposes into ferrite and cementite. Tempered martensite is not as hard as just-quenched martensite, but it is much tougher and is finer-grained as well. Final Thoughts about Martensite The heat treater might be interested to know that martensite formation is not restricted just to steels because other alloy systems produce crystallographic changes of a similar nature (Table 1). Learning more about martensite is an essential part of what we need to do as heat treaters since it is one of the defining characteristics of our industry. IH

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Steel, D.V. Doane and J.S. Kirkaldy [Eds.], AIME, Warrendale, PA, 1978, pp. 229-248. Vander Voort, George F., “Martensite and Retained Austenite,” Industrial Heating, April 2009. Elements of Metallurgy and Engineering Alloys, F. C. Campbell [Ed.], ASM International, 2008, pp. 169 – 173. Vander Voort, George F., “Microstructures of Ferrous Alloys,” Industrial Heating, January 2001. Payares-Asprino, M. C., H Katsumot and S. Liu, “Effect of Martensite Start and Finish Temperature on Residual Stress Development in Structural Steel Welds,” Welding Journal, Vol. 87, November 2008. Zackary, V. F., M. W. Justusson and D. J. Schmatz, Strengthening Mechanisms in Solids, ASM International, 1962, p. 179. G. B. Olson and W. S. Owen [Eds.], Martensite, ASM International, 1992. Krauss, George, Steels Processing, Structure and Performance, ASM International, 2005.

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References 1. Krauss, G., “Martensitic Transformation, Structure and Properties in Hardenable Steels,” in Hardenability Concepts with Applications to

10μm Fig. 3. Lath martensite example (carburized 8620)[4]

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10μm Fig. 4. Plate martensite example (carburized 8620)[4]

Fig. 5. Coarse martensite (carburized SAE 9310)

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h more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.” he Mark Twain certainly would have had a field day comM menting on today’s complex world of environmental m regulations. r Throughout most of human history, the term “solid waste” had a simple definition – a material that is neither liquid nor gas that is no longer useful and is ready to be discarded. Alas, with the help of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the concept of solid waste is no longer simple. In fact, the EPA has created at least nine different web-based resources to help explain the what, how and why of solid waste to the regulated community. Incoherent Regulations In the words of James Madison, “It will be of little avail to the people … if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” One particularly incoherent aspect of our environmental regulations is that the term “solid waste” is both a super-category and a sub-category. The super-category is where non-hazardous wastes are distinguished from hazardous substances. At this level, the definition of solid waste is actually quite sensible, incorporating municipal solid waste (e.g., garbage and trash) and industrial solid waste (e.g., production scrap and demolition waste) in the non-hazardous category. Unfortunately, the common sense ends there. Because hazardous substances have the potential to become hazardous wastes, the EPA seems to have reasoned that “solid waste” should also be a sub-category under hazardous substances. In this realm, physics takes a back seat to chutzpah because gases and liquids suddenly become candidates for designation as solid wastes. “Definition” Regulations Novices who wish to venture into the regulatory world of solid waste are directed to the EPA’s “DSW Tool” webpage, which provides an interactive guide through the “Definition of Solid Waste” regulations. Yes, you heard it right. Our nation is blessed with an entire set of regulations that define what constitutes a solid waste! Gone are the days when definitions comprised a page or two at the beginning of a regulation. Now they comprise an entire regulation unto themselves. The DSW Tool is essentially a decision tree that helps users discover the true identity of their solid waste by sending it through a set of decision gates that ultimately lead to the following (mutually exclusive) netherworlds: “Solid Waste,” “Not a Solid Waste,” 22 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

“Non-Hazardous Waste,” “Excluded Material/Process” and “Solid Waste, even when Used/Re-used.” Compendium To further assist the public, the EPA published a set of 23 documents (398 pages total) called the Definition of Solid Waste Compendium. The preamble contains the following confession: “A frequently mentioned comment from stakeholders is the need for EPA to improve the user-friendliness of the existing regulations … stakeholders have difficulty understanding the regulations and identifying solid waste.” Are we surprised that stakeholders are confused when the EPA expects the regulated community to adopt and appreciate concepts such as: Inherently Waste-Like Materials (which means chemical by-products that often contain dioxins), Use Constituting Disposal (meaning materials used to make cement, fertilizer and anti-skid agents) and Universal Wastes (which applies “universally” to a few types of batteries, pesticides, thermostats and lamps)?

The EPA has created at least nine different webbased resources to help explain the what, how and why of solid waste to the regulated community.

Oxymoron Delving a bit deeper into the seemingly oxymoronic category “Solid Waste, even when Used/Re-used,” we find that some materials are solid wastes even if they are recycled, used, re-used or returned to the original process. This includes materials that are burned for energy recovery or used to produce a fuel. Thus, while one branch of regulators wants to encourage conservation of energy (ostensibly to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases), another branch wants to micro-manage how industry goes about doing it. As Benjamin Franklin put it, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” In the realm where industry intersects with the environment, today’s master is the regulator. One way for industry to liberate itself from this exasperating ruler would be to develop a market-based system to handle the disposition of all forms of waste material – gas, liquid and solid. Since generating and discarding waste material causes varying degrees of negative consequences to neighboring businesses and individuals, the system would have to account for those negative impacts in a manner commensurate with the potential damage. This columnist welcomes reader input on the subject and hopes to assemble a future column enumerating promising ideas. IH

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systems; remanufacture and refurbish most brands and models of vacuum pumps; and reverse-engineer and manufacture many hard-to-get components. The company has the facilities and staff to perform all the machining, welding, rebuilding, refurbishment and integration on-site. As a result, MHV can tightly control all the manufacturing operations for quality and scheduling. MHV’s products and services include: vacuum chambers, piping and manifolds, flexible connectors, accessories, vacuum valves, custom oil filtration systems, helium leak testing, field installation, training and repair. Extensive testing capabilities include leak checking and hot testing for every pump to ensure performance with documented results as proof of quality. The key to MHV’s quality is its ability to understand and solve vacuum-processing problems for customers coupled with outstanding technical support. Length of Service is Vital Vacuum pumps are often used in tough applications like sintering of powdered metals, brazing and coating. Such processes develop water vapor, acids or small particles that can contaminate and shorten pump service life. MHV has responded to this by developing oil filtration systems that can significantly reduce contamination, double or triple service life, and provide better return on the customer’s investment. Future Goals President Geoff Humberstone said, “We want to help our customers keep their production operations running by delivering their products and controlling their long-term costs. What helped us to grow over the years is a solid reputation for high-quality work, creative engineering and a ‘can do’ attitude for customer service. We will not settle for anything less now and in the future.” For more information on MHV, visit www.methivac.com, e-mail sales@met hivac.com or call 269-543-4291.

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h Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) he announced its 2011-12 officers and Board of Directors at a its recent Annual Meeting. i Bill Pasley of Southern Company will serve as IHEA’s 2011-12 president. Pasley said, “We are building upon 82 years of industry leadership, and we are now expanding on this firm foundation. There is an unprecedented opportunity to establish IHEA as the entity wherein all manufacturers of process-heating equipment and associated service providers can work together for the benefit of the industry.” Mike Shay of Elster Kromschröder was named first vice president; Tim Lee of Maxon, A Honeywell Company was elected treasurer; and Lach Perks of Eclipse assumes the role of past president. The following members will serve on IHEA’s 2011-2012 Board of Directors: • Keith Boeckenhauer (SECO/WARWICK) • David Bovenizer (Selas Heat Technology Co.) • Mike Chapman (Vulcan Catalytic Systems) • Jay Cherry (Wellman Furnaces) • Doug Glenn, (Industrial Heating magazine) • Bob Green (Bloom Engineering)

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• Max Hoetzl (Surface Combustion) • Scott Kinney (Rolled Alloys) In an address to IHEA members, Pasley said, “Increasingly rapid movement in trends related to globalization, energy usage, manufacturing complexity, and the environment is helping to highlight the value of the framework IHEA is providing to the industry. Through recognized industry leaders, our association is focusing more than ever on assuring that process-heating issues are properly addressed by regulators, legislators and other government entities such as the Department of Energy and the EPA. We continue to be this industry’s leader in the areas of safety, standards and training, and we will expand this effort in 2011-12.” IHEA Fall Schedule Fall brings the return of IHEA’s 42nd Annual Combustion Seminar and its popular Online Process Heating Distance Learning Courses. The Omni William Penn in Pittsburgh, Pa., will host the Combustion Seminar and Tabletop Exhibition on Sept. 27-28. This two-day event consists of 16 educational sessions that will discuss topics including air-gas premixing, burners, controls, flame supervision, gas-flow measurement, metering, NOx and more. The tabletop exhibition gives attendees an opportunity to speak with company representatives and learn more about the products and services discussed in the classroom environment. IHEA’s Fall Business Conference will follow the Combustion Seminar at the Omni William Penn on Sept. 28-29. Registration for IHEA’s Online Process Heating Distance Learning Courses will open July 18 and will close Sept. 9. The two classes offered, “Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating” and “Advanced Industrial Process Heating,” begin Sept. 19 and run through Nov. 4 (Fundamentals) and Dec. 2 (Advanced). In the instructor-led, interactive online course, you will learn safe, efficient operation of industrial heating equipment, how to reduce energy consumption and ways to improve your bottom line.

CECOF General Secretary Retires Dr. Gutmann Habig has retired as general secretary of CECOF, a position he held since 1992. Dr. Habig was a frequent presence at IHEA Annual Meetings since 1998. He said, “What particularly impressed me is the strong engagement and commitment of company members and executives to take on association jobs on the board and on the committees. I envy IHEA having such a solid dedication from individual members.” CECOF (the European Committee of Industrial Furnace and Heating Equipment Associations) is the respected voice and lobby organization of the thermal-processing industry in Europe. It incorporates almost all relevant European manufacturers of this kind of equipment. CECOF represents its members’ interests in economic and technical issues.

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iicric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol, [(NO2)3C6H2OH]) is widely used in metallography labs for the very common etchants known as picral – a 4% m solution in ethanol developed by Igevski – and in Vilella’s reagent – 1% picric s acid and 4% HCl in ethanol developed by Jose Ramon Vilella (1938) – as a well as several other formulations. Picric acid was formulated by British chemist Peter Woulfe in 1771 although Glauber is claimed to have written about it in 1742. The name comes from the Greek word pikros, which means bitter, as picric acid has a bitter taste. It was initially used to dye fabrics yellow. In the early 20th century, workers producing picric acid were sometimes called canaries, because their skin also became stained yellow. The explosive nature of picric acid was discovered in 1885 in England, which led to the development of an explosive called Lyddite in 1888, named after the location of the studies in Lydd, England. Anhydrous picric acid is related to TNT, a much more potent explosive. In its concentrated form, it will attack metals, producing shock-sensitive, explosive salts. This was discovered in 1916 at a French ammunition factory when a fire caused molten picric acid to wet a concrete floor, which formed calcium picrate that detonated killing 170 people. Fortunately, there have been no documented cases of explosions from picric acid in laboratories, according to Phifer.[1] The concern has always been in finding an old bottle that has dried up producing dehydrated picric acid and if it has a metal cap rather than a plastic cap. In such a case, the shock-sensitive metallic picrates may have formed at the cap-bottle interface. The solution is to have a robot pick it up and re-hydrate the picric acid after opening the bottle under water. If the cap is plastic and the acid has dried out, friction from opening the cap could cause detonation. The solution here is to place the bottle in a large bucket or tank of water and allow water to dissolve any dried picric acid on the cap threads. Leave the bottle in the water for a few days until some water can be seen inside the bottle. Then, open the lid and re-hydrate the picric acid. Obviously, the wise lab manager checks the picric acid bottle periodically (which can vary with lab usage of picric in etchants) to make sure that the picric acid remains wet. Today, bottles are sold with at least 30% water. Clean the cap and threads on the bottle and on the cap with a wet paper towel. If you have copper piping, do not dispose of picric acid by pouring it down the drain as explosive metallic salts could form. Virtually all chemicals and solvents used in the laboratory are dangerous. Hence, we must develop good safe laboratory practices and teach our employees what to do to avoid problems. Personally, I have never heard of a problem in a metallography/materialography laboratory from picric acid. But I know of four accidents from nital (2-3% nitric acid in ethanol), which people consider to be very safe to use. Every dangerous chemical or solvent cannot be outlawed for use, or we will not be able to work. The solution is to establish a good laboratory safety program and train employees and develop safe working habits. References 2-4 summarize lab safety aspects as a sequel to the superb treatise by Anderson.[5] ASTM E 2014 lists a number of books on laboratory safety and is a good source of information on metallography lab safety. IH See www.industrialheating.com/gvv for the references and the full blog from Vander Voort.

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Equipment News Box Furnace Lucifer Furnaces designed a large heat-treating box furnace for a manufacturer in the aerospace industry. The 20-inch-high x 20-inch-wide x 40-inch-long unit will be used in the production of engine parts. This three-zone furnace with tight uniformity meets the AMS 2750 specification required by Nadcap. The new furnace, which heats to 2000°F, will complement an existing one already in operation. The company chose this equipment with the goal of shortening heat-treating cycles. With a three-zone master/slave temperature control system and overtemperature safety controls linked to a computer interface, reduced cooling time is achieved through a fresh-air damper system. Fifty-four kW of power is generated through heavy-gauge wire heating elements in removable radiant panels located in the door as well as side walls and rear wall of the furnace. The horizontal swing door is secured with two cam locks and a safety micro switch to automatically shut power when the door is opened. www.luciferfurnaces.com

Nitrocarburizing Systems Nitrex Metal completed Phase 2 of a four-phase nitrocarburizing project for Chinese industrial gear maker Nanjing High Speed & Accurate Gear Co. (NGC). Nitrex’s scope of supply includes multiple nitrocarburizing systems based on a common horizontal-loading chamber furnace platform. Phase 3 will be fully completed in 2011. Nitrex’s involvement is in the front-end engineering phase of the project, including system and process control design, licensing of

Nitreg®-C nitrocarburizing technology, and on-site operation and testing of the systems. www.nitrex.com

Walking-Beam Furnace BTU International announced the receipt of orders for nuclear fuel sintering equipment. The total value of the orders, consisting of a walking-beam furnace and parts, approaches $3.5 million. The units will be shipped this year to customers located in Asia. BTU’s walking-beam furnace is a hightemperature system designed for handling heavy loads under precisely controlled temperatures and atmospheric conditions. Various system configurations provide process temperatures up to 1800°C and atmosphere capabilities from oxidizing to fully reducing. The walking-beam system includes a number of BTU’s proprietary technologies, including variable density refractory components, eductor technology and the walkingbeam mechanism. www.btu.com

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VAC AERO International sold a vacuum furnace to Samsung Electrics to be used for hardening captive press and plastic die molds used in the manufacture of mobile phones, refrigerators and washing machines. The furnace will be housed in Samsung’s new stateof-the-art facility in Gwangju Metropolitan City, Korea. The VAH6660 HV-6 is equipped with VAC AERO’s Honeywell HC900 interactive control system with complete network integration capabilities and remote monitoring and control. The hot zone measures 48 inches wide x 48 inches high x 60 inches deep and is comprised of high-efficiency graphite felt, carbon composite and curved graphite elements. The furnace operates at temperatures up to 2400°F. The vacuum pumping system includes a diffusion pump for high-vacuum applications to 10-5 Torr. Delivery is scheduled for this summer. www.vacaero.com

Thermal Technology shipped a spark plasma sintering (SPS) system to a leading Russian research institute. The SPS Model 10-3 provides 10 tons of force and a 3,000-amp power supply. Thermal Technology’s SPS systems are designed with highly rigid fourpost press frames, an extra-large working chamber and large access doors. The flexible footprint accommodates users’ spatial limitations, while the advanced power supply provides unequaled adjustability and heat rates greater than 1500°C per minute. Digital servo valve-controlled hydraulics ensure ultra-fine force control, while programming and data acquisition are accomplished using an on or off-line PC system. syste www.thermal technology.com

Walking-Beam Furnace Tenova Core has been contracted by Gerdau Ameristeel to design and supply a 140-ton/hour walking-beam reheat furnace. The furnace will be installed at Gerdau’s Calvert City, Ky., facility in 2012. It will replace an existing furnace and will be used to efficiently and uniformly heat billets for processing. The furnace will feature a combustion system equipped with Tenova’s TSX low-NOx recuperative burners for reliable temperature uniformity as well as emissions control. Tenova Core will also design and supply the Level 1 and Level 2 process control and automation systems for the furnace. This project will mark the first installation on a new furnace of Tenova Core’s Level 2 system that includes an advanced model predictive control engine. The new Level 2 system heats the charge at an “optimum cycle” predetermined for each type of material for the complete range of furnace production rates. www.tenovacore.com

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Business News Lakeside Steel to Expand New Facility

Lakeside Steel plans to expand its previously announced $7.5 million tubular end-finishing and heat-treatment facility in Thomasville, Ala., to add end-finishing and heat-treatment processing capabilities for casing products. The company will expand the new end-finishing facility, at an additional capital cost of approximately $10 million, to enable Lakeside to end finish and heat treat casing products in addition to the previously announced tubular-product finishing capabilities. The expansion will enable Lakeside Steel to upgrade casing to high value-added products including L80, N80 and P110 products used in the most demanding onshore drilling applications in North America. The facility will be capable of processing 4.5-inch-diameter to 5.5-inch-diameter casing pipe, with a capacity of up to 100,000 tons per year. When in operation, Lakeside Steel expects that the expansion will employ approximately 80 people, bringing total employment of the end-finishing and heat-treatment facility to around 160 people.

TMK Ipsco Breaks Ground on R&D Center TMK Ipsco broke ground on a new 51,000-square-foot research and development center in Houston, Texas. The state-of-the-art facility will serve as the heart of the company’s innovation initiatives – new product design and development, experimental and validation testing, and advanced metallurgical research. It will serve TMK Ipsco as well as the global operations of its parent company, Moscow-based OAO TMK. The R&D center, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2011, will bring in-house much of the analysis, modeling and testing work that is currently performed by outside providers. The building will feature a high bay testing area, a variety of support laboratories and 27,000 square feet of office space. Two high-tech connection testers rated at 4 million pounds and 2 million pounds of tension, respectively, will be among the key

pieces of equipment installed at the new research center. Other key equipment will include a scanning electron microscope, a collapse tester, tensile and fatigue testers, and a corrosion testing lab.

California Company Adds Manufacturing Facility BendPak of Santa Paula, Calif., started construction on a new $65 million facility. It will be used primarily for manufacturing certain light and medium-duty lift products and select parking systems. The 480,000-square-foot plant will house stateof-the-art equipment including turning and milling equipment and automated welding systems as well as full-capability services like comprehensive metallurgy testing, heat treatment and automated powder coating. The facility will also include assembly and packaging operation centers and product development testing labs for BendPak’s growing customer base.

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Republic Engineered Products Acquires BCS Assets Republic Engineered Products Inc., a subsidiary of Grupo Simec, acquired assets of BCS Industries consisting of a heat-treatment facility and cold-drawn steel bars. These facilities are located in Cleveland, Ohio, and Memphis, Tenn. With this acquisition, Republic enhances and complements its capacity production of special bars (SBQ).

Aluminum Processor to Open Facility in Indiana Huntington Aluminum will establish its initial operation in Huntington, Ind., creating up to 43 new jobs by 2013. The company plans to invest $1.1 million to purchase and equip a 58,000-squarefoot building. Huntington Aluminum will melt aluminum chips and resell them as ingots and sows. The company wants to begin hiring processing and supervisory associates this summer and anticipates being operational by July.

SCA Receives Certification Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA) announced the successful completion of AS9100/ISO 9001:2008 certification – the premium quality-system standard for companies operating in the aerospace industry. AS9100 encompasses the entire current version of ISO 9001 as well as specific requirements addressing well-known problems related to the aerospace sector. The audit was performed by International Standards Authority. Certification was awarded on April 11.

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FEATURE | Industrial Gases/Combustion

Regenerative Burners or Oxy-Fuel Oxy Fuel Burners Regenerative Burners or Oxy-Fuel Burners for Your Furnace Upgrade? Jared S. Kaufman & Josh Marino – Tenova Core; Coraopolis, Pa. Recently, there has been significant interest in upgrading furnace combustion systems. The motivations range from increasing production to saving energy costs to reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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e egardless of the motive, the first step undertaken by a furnace operator is to investigate the various technolf ogies available. Two of the most intriguing technoloo gies are regenerative burners and oxy-fuel burners. g

Combustion Basics The most commonly used fuel combusted in furnace applications is natural gas, which is comprised of over 90% methane (CH4). Air, comprised of about 20% oxygen (O2) and the balance nitrogen (N2), is usually used as the oxidizer. Equation 1 expresses the typical combustion reaction, firing with 10% excess air. CH4 + 2.2 O2 + 8.27 N2A CO2 + 2H2O + 0.2 O2 + 8.27 N2

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1 Fuel + 10.47 Air A 8.7% CO2 +17.4% H2O + 1.7% O2 + 72.1% N2 The hydrocarbon fuel chemically changes to a collection of exhaust gases: carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O). The N2 in the exhaust gas came directly from the combustion air. As shown, the process starts with chemical energy in the fuel. There is also some sensible energy in the oxidizer, proportional to its temperature. From this heat supply, process heat is used to heat the product as well as the various system losses (refractories, water, etc.). Finally, a significant amount of heat is carried out of the furnace in the form of sensible heat in the exhaust gases. This energy balance is summarized in equation 2.

is lost with the exhaust gas. Specifically, a media pulls heat out of the waste gases and temporarily stores it. The media is typically made up of ceramic balls or honeycombs. After the media is sufficiently heated, the combustion air is blown across it, thus pulling the heat out of the media and returning it to the combustion process. The net result is that the waste gases leave the process at a lower temperature, meaning that less energy is lost to the stack. In practice, regenerative burners usually work in pairs (Fig. 1). In this example, burner #1 is in firing mode while burner #2 is in exhausting mode. Burner #1 is firing with its combustion air blowing across the already hot burner #1 media, resulting in air preheat temperatures of about 300˚F less than the furnace-chamber temperature. Meanwhile, burner #2 is drawing the hot exhaust gases out of the furnace across the burner #2 media, heating up the media and cooling the exhaust gases. After a period of about 3060 seconds, the burners switch. The high air preheat temperature makes the combustion process very efficient because the flames do not have to heat the combustion air to the furnace operating temperature. A regenerative burner system involves the burners, ceramic media, media cases, switching valve, exhaust ductwork, and combustion air and exhaust blowers. The combustion reaction for normal 10% excess-air firing is exactly as presented in equation 1.

Chemical energy + Sensible heat – Sensible heat = Process heat (2) (Fuel) (Oxidizer) (Exhaust) (Useful heat)

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FEATURE | Industrial Gases/Combustion

Oxy-Fuel Burners Another approach to increasing combustion efficiency is to fire specially designed burners with oxygen instead of air. The combustion efficiency is raised because of the fact that it takes about five times more energy to heat the air to the furnace operating temperature than the oxygen requires. This is because the air is comprised of almost 80% N2, which (for the most part) is not involved in the chemical reactions. An oxy-fuel burner system involves the specially designed burners, oxygen valves and piping. Unlike the regenerative burner case, the combustion equations are altered to account for the use of pure oxygen instead of air for the oxidizer. Operating with 10% excess oxygen, only 2.2 parts O2 are needed for every part CH4, as shown in equation 4.

Pressure Control Pressure control is essential to a furnace operation to ensure quality heating and energy efficiency. If regenerative or oxy-fuel burners are installed in addition to an existing combustion system, the exhaust-gas system will need to be expanded to handle the extra volume of combustion gases or else the furnace pressure will increase significantly. If these new burners are to be installed as replacements for existing burners, however, the impact on pressure control is not as simple. By their nature, the oxy-fuel burners release less waste gas, which may require downsizing the exhaust system so as to prevent a reduction in furnace pressure. On the other hand, replacing cold-air burners with regenerative burners requires a modification because the vast majority of furnace waste gases are exhausted through the burners, requiring some additional ductwork, valves and fans.

CH4 + 2.2 O2 A CO2 + 2H2O + 0.2 O2

Surface Oxidation Surface oxidation, or scale loss, is an inherent issue in product heating. It is dependent on residence time, surface temperature and furnace atmosphere. While the time and temperature aspects are dictated by the heating requirements of the product, the furnace atmosphere can vary widely depending on the furnace equipment and control. The typical components of a furnace atmosphere are categorized in Table 2. The rate of surface oxidation is dependent on the relative partial pressures (volumetric proportions) of these constituents. As equations 1 and 4 show, the percentages of oxidizing gases are significantly higher in the oxy-fuel burner case. This results in more scale loss, as shown in the heating-model analysis results in Fig. 3.

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1 Fuel + 2.2 Oxygen A 31.3% CO2 + 62.5% H2O + 6.3% O2 Combustion Efficiency The combustion efficiency, or the percentage of available process heat over the chemical heat content of the fuel, was presented in equation 3. Table 1 shows a comparison of the combustion efficiency for a range of furnace temperatures. For comparison purposes, all cases were calculated based on natural gas firing with 10% excess air (or oxygen). As shown in the table above, the combustion efficiency for regenerative burners and oxy-fuel burners is almost identical. Each can provide significant energy savings over cold-air combustion systems and a proportional reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. So, with almost identical performance in energy efficiency, the deciding factor shifts to other criteria. Process Heating One of the touted benefits of oxy-fuel burners is the improved process heating performance. The higher concentrations of triatomic molecules such as CO2 and H2O, as shown in equations 1 and 4, result in a higher emissivity, which increases the radiantheat transfer. On the other hand, the much larger flame envelope resultant from regenerative burners also increases the radiant-heat transfer to a slightly lesser extent than the oxy-fuel case. Sample heating model analysis results comparing the two are shown in Fig. 2. Table 1. Combustion efficiency as a function of furnace temperature Temperature

Emissions As with the other criteria, an evaluation of the emissions of oxyfuel and regenerative burner systems depends on the specifics of the project. Obviously, a furnace completely fired with oxy-fuel burners will emit practically zero NOx. This is because there is no N2 in the combustion reactions unless the furnace has air infiltration. Otherwise, if the oxy-fuel burners are installed in conjunction with air-fired burners, the NOx emissions will increase as the N2 already present in the furnace atmosphere (supplied through the air-fired burners) will form NOx in the oxy-fuel burner flames. With regenerative burners, higher air preheat results in higher flame temperatures, which then results in higher NOx emissions. Recent advancements in burner designs have contributed to reducing the NOx emissions from both oxy-fuel and regenerative burners. Table 2. Furnace-atmosphere constituents affecting surface oxidation

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Capital Costs When comparing the capital costs associated with a combustionsystem upgrade, the regenerative burner system is typically more expensive to install. That is because it involves the burners, media and cases, piping, valves, ductwork and fans. The oxy-fuel system requires new burners, piping, valves and an oxygen-supply skid. Operating Costs One of the most common deciding factors in upgrading a combustion system is the resultant operating-cost impact. Typically, energy-saving projects are undertaken with the idea of paying for the project with natural gas savings. In the case of regenerative burners, this is clear. With oxy-fuel combustion, the verdict will depend on the oxygen-supply situation. Many plants operate with an oxygen contract with a gas supply company that provides “free” oxygen that would otherwise be unused. In this case, there is no additional operating cost for the oxygen. However, if the plant does not already have an oxygen contract, one must offset some of the natural gas savings with additional oxygen costs. Maintenance Costs The most significant drawback of regenerative burners is the additional maintenance costs. There are two sources of additional maintenance in the regenerative burner system. First, the media must be cleaned or replaced regularly because it picks up contaminants from the exhaust gas. The other maintenance items are the switching valves, whose actuators will fail after a certain number of cycles. An oxy-fuel combustion system will have minimal maintenance impact. Summary As this article demonstrates, oxy-fuel and regenerative burner combustion upgrade projects offer significant energy-savings possibilities. However, the decision as to which type of upgrade is best for a particular operation depends on numerous other factors, ranging from process considerations to cost structures. IH

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FEATURE | Heat Treating

Cut Costs and Stay Competitive with Advanced Energy Management Bob Zak – Powerit Solutions North America; Seattle, Wash. With the economy still challenging and competitive pressures continuing to rise, reducing expenses is imperative for industrial businesses. Yet many underestimate or neglect a key source of savings – the electricity bill.

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o may be wise to watching ou the th demand meter or shifting in heavy loads to off-peak hours, but those are not your h only options. With advanced energy-management technology, you can automate control of energy use so that your facility runs at optimal efficiency, you pay the lowest possible rates, and you can participate in incentive programs that pay you for unused kilowatts. Even the most energy-intensive businesses can cut energy costs without compromising production or quality. The key is to take full advantage of the load-shedding strategies that an advanced energy-management system enables: demand control, demand response, dynamic pricing optimization and energy efficiency (Fig. 1). Energy Cost-Reduction Strategies in Brief Demand Control

Demand control is a strategy that allows almost all industrial facilities to use energy more efficiently by managing peaks and valleys of energy demand. An advanced energy-management system (EMS) allows you to do this safely by strategically directing demand reductions through a collection of selected loads to achieve the desired kW reduction while maintaining productivity (Fig. 2). The savings can be significant. Peak-time energy use can account for as much as 40% of an industrial user’s electricity bill, and avoiding these spikes can reduce the overall bill by as much as 15%. Demand Response

This is a demand-reduction strategy being

implemented by utilities and power-system operators across the country. Demand response (DR) programs let you earn money by curtailing your electricity use on demand. For example, on an unusually hot summer day a utility might notify demand response participants that it needs them to curtail their usage by an amount specified in their participation contract. There are two types of DR programs. In standby/reliability programs, you commit to specific load reductions when the grid is under stress. These infrequent events often last two to four hours (Fig. 3). Prices are usually $30,000 to $60,000 per MW. In reserves/market-based programs, you agree to cut usage based on a set price. Events are more frequent than standby/ reliability events and usually last one hour or less. Prices are typically about $40,000 per MW. Some of the more lucrative DR programs require automated communication between the energy users’ and supplier’s DR systems. Dynamic Pricing Optimization

Many utilities employ dynamic pricing strategies, such as real-time pricing (RTP), that involve rate changes based on the market price of electricity, weather events or other conditions. These changes can happen with anywhere from just minutes’ to 24 hours’ notice, and in worst-case examples, power costs have jumped during an RTP spike to more than 100 times the normal rate. An advanced EMS lets you respond automatically to ongoing price fluctuations by shifting consumption to lower rate periods or reducing consumption during costly super-peak times.

Energy nergy y Efficiency

Energy rgy effi efficiency ciency – not only using less energy, but also using energyy at the least costly times – is often a byproduct of implementing demand control, demand response and dynamic pricing programs. These initiatives typically reveal bestpractice opportunities for eliminating waste and optimizing use. Only a small fraction of industrial businesses takes advantage of these prime saving opportunities, but the few that do demonstrate the potential. For example, the Blackhawk de Mexico foundry in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico uses Powerit’s Spara technology to decrease its kilowatt-hour usage 10-12%, reduce peak period demand usage 37% and save $20,000 per month on its power bill. Why Automation is Essential Manually manipulating complex processes to achieve energy savings is difficult

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tation, it’s possible to achieve ROI anywhere from immediately to 18 months. Many utilities offer incentive programs that cover partial or even full costs of systems needed to reduce energy consumption or manage peak demand. These incentives cover a wide variety of equipment and technology for applications ranging from basic energy efficiency to automating participation in DR programs. Where incentive programs aren’t available, renting, renting to own and leasing often are attractive alternatives to outright purchases. These financing options

increase purchasing power and lower the upfront investment, allowing immediate action on reducing energy costs, even when there’s no budget for new technology. Depending on the circumstances, businesses may be able to realize tax benefits through bonus and accelerated depreciation or investment tax credits and can even realize immediate positive cash flow. An Advanced EMS at Work: A Real-World Example Here’s an example of a typical demand control operation at a metal-casting

Controlling Energy Use from Heat Treaters Vacuum heat-treating furnaces offer the best opportunity for demand control in heat-treating operations. The electrical load on this equipment is highest and most available for demand control during the ramp stage, when the load is heated from the ambient temperature to the soak temperature. With an advanced EMS controlling vacuum heat-treating furnaces, demand control might work like this: 1. The EMS is connected to the temperature-control system, handling the heating profiles of the furnace. Through this communication link, the EMS often knows the target and actual temperatures for both the furnace and the product and what stage (ramp or soak) the furnace is in. 2. The EMS constantly monitors the plant’s main electrical meter and calculates the demand reduction needed from heattreating furnaces to avoid breaching the peak demand setpoint. 3. The EMS polls the connected furnace controllers to identify which ones are operating and in ramp mode, making them available for curtailment.

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4. Furnaces in ramp mode receive a signal from the EMS with a command to reduce heating (and therefore kW). The EMS follows strict rules defined by the operator for how much power can be reduced and for how long. It also tightly controls the kW reduction to make only the minimum reduction needed to avoid the peak level. Furnaces can be prioritized based on treated parts, production schedules and so on. Once the EMS calculates that kW reduction is no longer needed, the furnace is released to resume heating according to its recipe. Note: Demand control should not be allowed or should be very tightly controlled during the critical soak phase, which requires a precise temperature for a prescribed time in order to ensure that you get the desired mechanical qualities. Other areas worth exploring for demand control include mass heating used for rolling operations and induction heat treating or annealing that takes place in a normal atmosphere.

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foundry that is controlling energy demand from furnaces using Powerit’s Spara EMS: 1. The EMS’s real-time algorithm predicts that the foundry’s current energy use will exceed its setpoint by 200 kW. The facility needs to shed loads. 2. The system determines which loads (furnaces, baghouse fans, etc.) are enabled for reduction at this moment. These loads are available for curtailment. 3. The EMS stages curtailment actions based on the preferred order that has been set in the system. Furnaces A and B have a priority of 1 and 2. Furnace A has 150 kW safely available for reduction, so the system powers it down accordingly. It then powers Furnace B down 50 kW to get the remaining reduction needed. 4. Each furnace can operate at reduced power for only so long without disrupting operations, and that time has been set in the system. The EMS monitors the reduction time and sees that Furnace A has hit that point. It releases Furnace A and further reduces Furnace B to get the rest of reduction needed. Note: Time as a constraint is a simple example of a rule that can be integrated into the system’s decisionmaking process. Rules can also be fairly complicated and logic based (if pump speed is X and tank level is Y then the agitator can be curtailed to speed Z) or triggered by schedules or production factors. 5. Now you’ve hit your goal. All loads are released according to the procedure set by the facility. What happened here? The foundry’s processes were interrupted, but they weren’t disrupted. The changes were defined in advance as acceptable power reductions in return for energy savings. What to Look for in Energy-Management Technology Key features of the best energy-management systems are: 48 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

Fig. 4. An intelligent energy-management system verifies savings actions with a real-time connection to the utility meter.

• Ability to take direct control of the loads – within parameters you set – so that no human intervention is required. • Seamless integration with existing systems and the ability to extend their functionality. • Capacity to connect with many loads in order to take maximum advantage of potential savings. • Access to real-time data in order to analyze and predict events. • Rules-driven, process-protecting routines tailored to your operations that can manage an infinite variety of industrial processes, limitations and thresholds. • Wireless input/output, which eliminates the need to run costly conduit (often a disruptive and time-consuming process) and provides access to hard-to-reach places, ensuring that the maximum number of loads can be controlled. Beyond the technology itself, look for a vendor that can assist in identifying and evaluating utility programs, rebates and incentives. The vendor should also have expertise in your industry so that they’re

familiar with typical processes and equipment and can share best practices based on past projects. With the right technology partner, industrial users can significantly reduce previously uncontrollable energy costs. By being able to aggressively manage a monopoly-controlled resource that continues to rise in cost year over year, you can not only cut costs but also gain a competitive advantage (Fig. 4). In manufacturing, many companies can make a widget. It’s the company that makes the widget most efficiently that wins the market. IH For more information: Contact Bob Zak, president and general manager of Powerit Solutions North America, 568 First Ave South, Suite 450, Seattle, WA 98104; tel: 866499-3030; fax: 206-621-8545; e-mail: info@ poweritsolutions.com; web: www.powerit solutions.com

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It’s Easy Being Green Wendell Keith and Reto Fehr – Keith Company; Pico Rivera, Calif. Thirty years ago, Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street sang “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” Today, in our energy- and environmentally conscious society, being green is politically correct. It represents good environmental stewardship, and it is more profitable for your company to become green than you may realize! Kermit was actually ahead of his time, and today he could sing a different song titled “It’s Easy Being Green.”

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h stand-alone performance he of o a well-adjusted modern furnace, at best, is only 30-40%. n However, other common inefH ficiencies can easily reduce this efficiency to just 15-20% because the furnace is operated with less than an ideal heating cycle, because it has old and deteriorated thermal insulation, and because its heating system is in disrepair. With such large inefficiency, there is plenty you can do to easily improve it by as much as 50%, which represents a huge financial opportunity for you and is the focus of this article. When figuring the payback of a repair or efficiency gain, it is perfectly acceptable if you calculate your efficiency gains based on the lifetime of the investment. Your own management typically wants to know what the payback is, so use this method of calculation. Contemporary management recognizes that best practices compel them to support energy-conservation initiatives within their company. I cannot think of a company that does not have a profit-making goal. Whether we call it profit making or energy savings, it is still the same idea. For some reason, the human spirit enjoys engaging in games they can win. Therefore, consider developing a couple of wellchosen goals and metrics that measure your progress toward those goals. You have probably heard the old adage, “if you can’t

measure it, you cannot control it.” Where Do You Look for Higher Energy Efficiency? If you don’t quite know where to find efficiency gains in your furnace area, here are some tips where to look for “low-hanging fruit.” In our 46 years of building and repairing industrial furnaces, we have seen plenty of examples of best and worst practices. Because the range of industrial heating applications varies widely among readers of this magazine, some of these tips may not apply to you, but please continue reading to discover tips that can help your business become more competitive and financially stronger, not to mention greener. Tip #1: Insulation Repair We choose to discuss this first because it applies universally to so many companies. This is one of the most common forms

Fig. 1. Bottom-loading furnace A with damaged and missing brickwork

Fig. 3. Front-loading furnace B with broken and missing insulation

of deferred repair work that we observe. Missing or damaged refractory allows excess heat leakage that the heating system must compensate for by overworking, thus raising your energy cost. Furthermore, heat leaks often mean cold-air infiltration into the furnace and upset temperature uniformity, thus lowering the yield of heat-treated product, which can also damage the equipment causing even more expensive repair. Pictured in Figures 1, 3 and 5 are classic examples of furnace interiors urgently in need of refractory repairs. Figures 2, 4 and 6 show furnace interiors with excellent refractory repair. The before and after story behind Figures 1 and 2 is that temperature uniformity became so bad in this furnace that there was no choice but to repair the brickwork. Otherwise, the furnace could not be used. This damage had been tol-

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erated for several months, during which time it put the surrounding steel furnace structure at risk of being warped due to excessive heat losses. More importantly, it was ruining the temperature uniformity within the furnace, not to mention having to adjust its heating system to input greater heat to offset the cold air leaking into the furnace. The most expensive consequence of this damaged brickwork was the high energy inefficiency that was tolerated for several months before it was finally repaired. Tip #2: Conversion from Brick to Fiber Insulation If you operate a brick-lined batch furnace that heats to about 2100°F in 8 hours, soaks for 2 hours and then cools, you are a prime candidate for conversion to a fiberinsulated furnace. The justification for this is found in a comparison of the heat loss and heat storage between the two choices of refractory insulation constructions. For sake of example, assume your furnace has an interior volume of 6 x 6 x 6 feet. A furnace of this description insulated with 9 inches of brick will have double the heat storage per square foot of furnace lining compared with a fiber-insulated furnace. It is no surprise that the brick-lined furnace needs a heating system nearly twice as large compared to the fiber-insulated furnace. Which furnace would you rather pay the heating bill for? With the higher heat storage, a bricklined furnace will also effectively take twice as long to cool down, obstructing your ability to turn the furnace around every 24 hours. Using ceramic-fiber insulation can so substantially lower your energy bill, it is an alternative that warrants your serious consideration even before your brick-lined furnace insulation is on its “last leg.” Tip #3: Test and Adjust Your Burner System If your business uses a fuel-fired furnace, you probably know what type burner adjustment, control and furnace atmosphere (chemically) are most desirable for the particular material you heat (e.g., on-ratio, excess air or excess fuel). 52 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

Fig. 4. Front-loading furnace B restored back to efficient heating condition

Fig. 6. Gas-fired, car-bottom furnace with newly installed ceramic-fiber wall and roof insulation

The manufacturer of your burners can most likely provide fuel-capacity curves stating heating capacities for various airflow rates for a particular fuel and operating temperature. Armed with this data and a digital monometer, you can set the correct gas and air settings on your burners accurately and easily. After setting the desired burner performance and furnaceatmosphere adjustments, it is possible to confirm them by measuring your flue-gas oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Equipment needed to perform these burner and flue-gas measurements is not expensive, and if it is used periodically, you can be assured that your company is operating its furnaces in a fuel-efficient manner. The benefit of planning and achieving the correct gas/air ratio is quickly evident by understanding the graph (Fig. 7) showing available heat for differing rates of excess air assuming a 2000°F flue-gas temperature. Looking at Fig. 7, you can see that if you meant to be processing on-ratio (0% excess air) with 60°F combustion air but find from analysis of your flue gas that you are operating with 50% excess air, you

Fig. 5. A furnace needing repair of all insulation surrounding the door opening and of heating elements that were starting to fall loose

can determine from this chart that the fuel your furnace is burning is only utilizing 28% available heat rather than 46% (e.g., for 0% excess air). In effect, your furnace is consuming 65% more fuel than necessary. At today’s average national fuel cost of $3.50 MCF for a continuous process that consumes 1,000 ft3 of gas per hour, this amounts to burning $39,000 of annual profitability. One other important adjustment to your furnace’s combustion system concerns the operating pressure within your furnaces, which is controlled by the exhaust damper setting. Fuel-fired furnaces should be fired with a modestly positive pressure measured at hearth level (e.g., <0.1 inch W.C.). This modestly positive pressure within a furnace when the burners are on high fire prevents cold air from infiltrating into the furnace and prevents the heating inefficiency described when the flue gas chart was explained. Tip #4: Test and service your electric heating system Electric heating systems are quite different

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than burner heating systems. The principal difference is that electric heating is often passive without vigorous convection. If your furnace has metallic heating elements, it is vital that you inspect and verify all elements are drawing correct amperage and appear to have the same color of orange, red or yellow once they reach a 1400-1800°F temperature with visible color. A more technical way to test them without heating the furnace is to use a volt/ohm meter to test each element for continuity and measure their ohmic resistance. The important thing is to inspect and test your elements, and the need to replace faulty elements is obvious. Heating elements that are falling out or off of the mounting supports (Fig. 5) should be resupported or replaced by the same means they were designed to be supported. Elements that do not heat are more harmful than you may think. The remaining good elements then have to work that much harder to produce additional wattage to achieve the setpoint temperature. As fewer elements work harder, it can stress and burn out the working heating elements that remain. Tip #5: Optimize Your Heating Cycle Have you considered altering your heating cycle to shorten its length of time? This is 54 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

more feasible than you may realize. We often see batch-furnace operations where we believe the heating cycle can be optimized by shortening certain segments of the cycle, as long as temperature uniformity can be maintained, with the result being that the overall cycle time is shortened. To approach this scientifically, one person should be in charge that possesses a reasonably broad knowledge of the specific heating process and material they are processing. Here are some examples. Customer A started to have trouble heating their product as fast as they had in the past. Because they did not have time to conduct test firings to develop a more informed decision, they instead slowed down their furnace heating rates enough to achieve the required temperature uniformity. They never changed back nor did they ever attempt to test and solve their original problem. Customer B has heated their product very slowly for years in an old, inefficient furnace because it could not heat any faster. If they tried to heat more rapidly, its poor temperature uniformity was intolerable. Then they purchased a new furnace with excellent temperature uniformity, but they began to heat it on the same slow cycle as their old furnace. How do you know if present heating and cooling cycles are optimum for high

production and high yield for your type of product? • You can perform your own planned trial-and-error heating tests if you have the time. • You can hire an outside consultant to mastermind the process development. This will undoubtedly cost money you can weigh against the value of the improvement you expect. • A less-expensive approach, if you have the time, is to contact a knowledgeable furnace builder with experience heating your particular type of product. You may have to call and talk to several furnace builders until you find someone with the specialized knowledge and experience you seek. Our company offers free non-proprietary advice if it is something we have firsthand knowledge of. If we don’t know, we will recommend another expert. Heating faster with less product loss is much more energy efficient. Therefore, we challenge you to look critically at your present heating cycles and to ask yourself if the heating and cooling cycles are optimum and equal to the best practices in your industry. Set a Corporate Goal A corporate goal will create a culture within your company that pursues energy conservation. One large company took a proactive approach directed at reducing its carbon footprint. This action reportedly resulted in a 30% reduction of carbon emissions per unit of revenue. Can you imagine how much newfound profit this amounted to? For this company, it became easier to be green in terms of decreasing the size of their carbon footprint. They also greened up corporate profitability as well as social image. “It’s easy being green.” IH For more information: Contact Charlie Birks, sales manager, Keith Company, 8323 Loch Lomond Drive, Pico Rivera, CA 90660; tel: 800-545-4567; fax: 562-949-3696; e-mail: [email protected]; web: www. KeithCompany.com

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Richard J. Grimm – Wirco, Inc.; Avilla, Ind. Energy conservation has become one of the primary issues for the heat-treating industry in the new millennium. It is important in this new business climate to look at all opportunities for increased furnace efficiency.

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n this article we will look at improving the weight ratio of part loading to t cast or fabricated alloy tooling and a improving the efficiency of other internal furnace parts.

Reduced Weight vs. Service Life A thorough evaluation is necessary prior to making any decision to reduce the weight of heat-resistant tooling. It is particularly useful to work with a qualified product design engineer when conducting an evaluation. The designer can verify that the lighterweight design will provide satisfactory service life so that the savings in increased efficiency will not be offset by shortened service life. The designer can also look at various materials to present the best solution that will provide the longest service life possible with the lightest-weight tooling. Evaluation of Design The designer will run a careful stress evaluation based on operating p g conditions

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and loading data provided by the customer. Once the design has been evaluated from a strength and material standpoint, it must also be evaluated by the supplier’s manufacturing personnel to verify a quality product can be produced. In the case of castings, many times the design stress calculations will provide a lighter-weight metal section than can be cast without having hot tears, internal voids or a missrun. Hot tears and internal voids are a main concern in heat-treat applications since they will greatly shorten the service life of the castings. In many cases, due to the size and shape of the design, it is more practical to fabricate the part or provide a hybrid assembly that consists of both castings and fabrications. Reducing Weight of Trays, Baskets and Fixtures By evaluating existing tray designs and applying loading and operating temperatures,, it is often possible to design a lightp

er-weight tray by taking into consideration the application requirements and features of the overall design. Some of the application requirements that can be reviewed are applied-load locations, part loading, support points and handling methods. Some design features that can be reviewed are metal section versus depth of casting, location of ribs, elimination of heavy sections and applying additional strength only in the areas where needed. Figure 1 shows a standard batch-furnace tray design and a redesigned tray based on the actual application. If the new lighter-weight tray is strong enough for the application and does not present any casting difficulty, it is possible to obtain the same or even increased service life while reducing the weight by 20% or more. When looking at a redesign of an existing tray, it is vital to look at the mode of tray failure so that, in addition to providing a lighter-weight tray, the failure points can be minimized.

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Fig. 3. Typical hybrid basket (23 x 35 inch)

There are a variety of opportunities for weight reduction with fixturing. The designer will need to review the application based on the operating conditions, loading, handling and sizing of the fixturing. The mode of failure needs to be reviewed to determine if the tooling can be redesigned to provide a lighter-weight fixture with longer service life. Stacking fixtures or baskets can be greatly improved by changing the method of support to provide much lighter-weight tooling that will not warp, bow, crack or distort early in the service life. Figure 2 shows the original fixture design and a redesigned lighterweight fixture that will provide longer service life. The primary mode of failure on the original design was premature sagging due to lack of internal support on the upper fixture layers. Fabricated baskets and fixturing normally provide the lightest-weight option and may well be considered when practical. When properly designed, lightweight stacking baskets offer great potential energy savings. With any basket or fixture design, it is important to use internal supports if at all possible. In most cases it is possible to cut the weight of a basket or fixture by 25% or more by using one or more internal supports. With fabricated baskets, it is especially important to run stress calculations on the bottom support ribs as the wrought material in round bar form may not have sufficient strength to support the required loading. The initial 58 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

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cost and service life of wrought versus cast should be considered when determining total cost savings.

baskets. Many types of assemblies can be reviewed for possible weight reductions based on a cast/wrought design solution.

Hybrid Tooling Hybrid baskets and other tooling afford the designer an opportunity to reduce weight based on using castings where needed for greater strength and using wrought materials in other areas that do not see the same stresses. This is especially true for stacking baskets and some fixtures. The most common way to provide strength where needed is by using hybrid stacking baskets where the bottom is cast and the sides are partially or completely fabricated. Cast components produced using HU or HT material are more than two times stronger than type 330 wrought material due to the higher carbon used in cast materials. The higher carbon and grid-style design provide the additional strength needed to keep the basket bottom from bowing down and pulling in the sides. Figure 3 shows an example of typical hybrid

Weight Reduction on Furnace Components Internal furnace components such as radiant-tube assemblies, chain guides, furnace rails and work supports can be evaluated for reduced weight based on the application. The designer can run a stress evaluation and review failure modes to determine if a weight reduction is feasible. In addition, options are available in material selection for the purpose of adding strength and reducing weight. Radiant-tube assemblies afford the best opportunity for weight reduction and improved efficiency. If the metal section can be reduced on the tubes and cast components, it will not only reduce weight but will improve heat transfer from the burner system to the furnace chamber. Many older furnaces use up to ½-inch metal sections on cast tubing. Most new systems have reduced metal sections – in some

New Alloy Technology Heat-resistant alloy suppliers are responding to the energy concerns of recent years by coming out with new lightweight products for use in industrial heating furnaces. With the help of qualified and experienced designers, improved manufacturing techniques, new design software and improved materials, alloy suppliers have the ability to provide customers with lightweight products that provide longer service life. The key is to provide your alloy suppliers with the information needed so that they can make a full evaluation of your requirements.

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cases less than 1⁄8 inch. Many suppliers of cast radiant-tube assemblies use 3⁄16-inch metal section on the tubing and ¼-inch metal section on the cast components in order to provide the best ratio of lightweight components and casting quality. Based on mechanical stress, the section modules of a thin-wall tube are stronger in bending over an unsupported span than a heavier-wall tube, taking into consideration the difference in tube weight. The main advantage of a heavy-wall tube for longer service life is that the heavier wall will provide additional metal section for flame impingement and corrosion. One way to offset this issue on thinner-wall tubing is to go with a superalloy in the areas of the assembly that are most prone to failure. Many companies use NC11C, NC14 or a comparable material on the firing end of the assembly to provide longer service life. In many cases, the firingend material can be upgraded while using a lower-grade material for the exhaust end of the assembly. Fabricated wrought assemblies can be produced with 10- to 12-gauge material and will provide the greatest energy efficiency. There are several wrought materials now on the market (e.g., 602CA, H230 and I601) that provide greater strength and corrosion resistance. However, initial cost and service life needs to be weighed against the actual energy savings. In most cases a cast

Material Selection for Energy Conservation Material selection can provide a means for reducing weight in the furnace if a superalloy or other high-strength alloy is chosen. This will provide the strength needed in the lighter-weight component. This is especially true in furnace parts operating in the 1750-2200˚F range. As an example, a tube support in HT material has a rating of 2,000 PSI at 1800˚F based on 1% creep in 10,000 hours. If the tube support is cast in NC11C material, the rating increases to 3,200 PSI. This is a 60% increase in strength and may allow the designer to reduce the weight of the tube support from 70 to 45 pounds. In many cases, a considerable reduction in weight is possible by changing to a higher-strength material. When evaluating materials, it is important not only to look at the PSI rating but to also evaluate the resistance to corrosion, oxidation, thermal cycling and other atmosphere conditions that could attack the alloy. Prior to making any material changes, it is useful to consult with a heat-resistant alloy supplier to determine the best solution for your application. Design Tools Tools such as 3-D solid modeling software, solidification-simulation software and stress-analysis software greatly improve the design and the end product. 3-D solid modeling allows the designer to see exactly how the customer’s parts and other components will integrate with the new design. In addition, the customer can look at the new design more closely to verify form, fit and function. Solidification software (Fig. 4) allows the designer and manufacturing to observe the casting process to verify that the new design will produce high-quality castings prior to the sampling process. Stress analysis software allows the designer to run a thorough stress analysis based on the loads, handling and operating conditions the casting will be subjected to. It is important to verify the alloy supplier selected is a qualified source for your design requirements. The supplier should be qualified in the following three areas: state-of-the-art design tools; experience, with an excellent track record in product design; and the ability to produce a quality product in a timely manner at a competitive price. IH

GRAPHALLOY BEARINGS CAN TAKE THE HEAT. ®

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assembly will cost less and, depending on material selected, will last longer than a similar fabricated wrought assembly.

For more information: Contact Richard J. Grimm, sales and technical director, Wirco, Inc., 105 Progress Way, P.O. Box 609, Avilla, IN 46710; tel: 260-897-3768; fax: 260-897-2525; e-mail: [email protected]; web: www.wirco.com

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Literature/Website Showcase Burners & Accessories | Industrial Gases/Atmosphere | Alloys & Specialty Metals Process Heating Equipment

Natural Gas

Eclipse Comprehensive brochure presents the entire line of process heating equipment and systems from the Eclipse family of brands. Our global powerhouse of industry-leading products includes combustion burners, packaged burners, integrated combustion systems, shut-off valves, valve trains, flame monitoring, recuperators and standby fuel systems. www.eclipsenet.com

Southern California Gas Company Southern California Gas Company, a regulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has been delivering clean, safe and reliable natural gas to its customers for more than 140 years. It is the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, providing safe and reliable energy to 20.9 million consumers. www.socalgas.com

Pulse Firing

Hot Zone Replacement

Hauck Manufacturing Company Pulse firing is a specialized type of combustion system control that offers significant process and productivity benefits. The brochure features Hauck burners and Kromschröder controls suitable for the high cycle demands of pulse firing. www.hauckburner.com

Americarb Americarb is an OEM-approved provider of hot zone component replacement parts for high-temperature vacuum furnace systems. Americarb is vertically integrated, ensuring our quality, costs and lead-time solutions meet your needs. We offer complete hotzone replacement kits for many vacuum furnaces. www.americarb.com

Radiant Tubes

GRAPHALLOY® Applications Guide

INEX Incorporated INEX Incorporated offers a line of silicon/ silicon carbide radiant tubes capable of temperatures of 2450°F. These tubes have been in use in heat treat furnaces since 1988 and have proven that their superior performance and long life can significantly reduce maintenance and operating costs. www.inexinc.net

Graphite Metallizing Corp. This 12-page illustrated brochure serves as a features and benefits primer on GRAPHALLOY® bushings and bearings. It includes product application overviews and solutions for key industries. GRAPHALLOY is a graphite/metal alloy with unique selflubricating properties, offering superior performance benefits for the toughest bearing applications. www.graphalloy.com

Burners and Radiant Tubes

Molybdenum Metal & Alloy Products

WS Thermal Process Technology, Inc. Specializes in industrial burners with integrated heat exchangers (recuperative or regenerative) and radiant tubes. Burners and radiant tubes are available in alloy material and SiC-ceramic. Great efforts are made to provide the highest efficiency and lowest NOx emissions currently available on the market. www.flox.com

H.C. Starck, Inc. Molybdenum products including TZM and Lathanum Doped Moly Alloys for vacuum furnace requirements of rod, sheet, plate and foil products manufactured to meet your needs and are used in high temperature vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces and equipment, materials processing, glass manufacturing, and aerospace & defense applications. www.hcstarck.com

Combustion Systems

AES Alloy Tube Assemblies

Yeten Yeten has been working on the heating systems of industrial furnaces for 25 years. We produce burners, recuperators and control equipment for our customers. Specializing in reheat and melting furnaces, the company aims to decrease emissions and increase efficiency. www.yeten.com

Steeltech Ltd. Our latest technology, Alternature Energy Saving (AES) Alloy Tube Assemblies, can reduce your energy usage up to 50%! This technology enables your radiant tube assemblies to operate at the same temperature (and maintain it) using half the energy. Call 800-937-7833. www.steeltechltd.com

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Literature/Website Showcase Alloys & Specialty Metals | Refractories & Insulating Materials | Misc. Castings & Fabrications Wirco, Inc. For 65 years Wirco, Inc. has been the leading supplier of heat-resistant castings and fabrications to the thermal-processing industry. The Wirco brochure and website feature many of our quality stainless steel products engineered and proven to hold up to the toughest high-heat applications. www.wirco.com

High-Temperature Insulation Mersen As an expert in composite/graphite refractory materials and high-temperature insulation, Mersen combines unique expertise in the field of heat-treatment ovens. Our range of products includes a variety of rigid and flexible insulation materials that can be coated or impregnated. www.mersen.com

Charging Systems

Replace This Tube...

When Hell Freezes Over It’s hell replacing alloy tubes. INEX your furnace and find something better to worry about.

Tubes for Life* Phone: 716-537-2270 www.INEXinc.net [email protected] *A portion of the proceeds from all INEX tubes goes to the American Cancer Society

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SGL Group – The Carbon Company Charging systems made from SIGRABOND® carbon fiber-reinforced carbon provide a number of advantages over systems made of high-temperature steel or molybdenumchromium or nickel-chromium alloys. Low thermal expansion and high creep resistance of our SIGRABOND charging systems guarantee that the workpieces do not undergo distortion. www.sglgroup.com

Insulation Unifrax I LLC New Foamfrax™ Insulation offers exceptional energy savings, installation speed and lining performance for upgrades of existing fiber linings, lining over refractory, and furnace lining patches or refits. It can be gunned directly onto metal, refractory or fiber surfaces and installed at rates in excess of 1,000 board feet/hour. www.unifrax.com.

Industrial Furnaces and Ovens Nutec Bickley Since 1958, Nutec Bickley has been committed to carrying on a tradition of excellence. With over 1,600 pieces of heatprocessing equipment sold and installed throughout the world, NB has established itself as one of the premier "furnaces and ovens" engineering/manufacturing companies in the world. www.nutecbickley.com

ASM Heat Treating Society Membership 500 Members in 100 Days: June 1 – Sept. 8, 2011 The ASM Heat Treating Society cordially invites you to take part in its “500 Members in 100 Days” campaign. Starting June 1 and running through September 8, (just in time for the upcoming ASM Heat Treating Society Conference & Exposition), we encourage you to become a member in the world’s largest heat-treating membership society. Whether you are new to the field of heat treating or simply allowed your membership to lapse, there is no time like the present to get engaged with the ASM Heat Treating Society. We believe that the objectives of the Society are important to you as heat treaters. We are proud to bring the scientific and manufacturing communities together on one platform, providing a balance between theoretical and applied information that can be used in your job on a daily basis. In addition to experiencing the affinity of a membership so-

ciety, you also receive FREE access to the Heat Treater’s Guides online. These references are the equivalent of Lexis-Nexis to a lawyer or the Physician’s Desk Reference to a doctor. These are THE essential tools to properly perform your job. Membership also means discounted access to this year’s event as well as preferred pricing on ASM’s upcoming heattreating educational seminars. Plus, as an added bonus, if you refer to code “HTSPOINTS” between June 1 and Sept. 8 when you renew and/or join, we will award you with 200 ASM Points good for ten free whitepaper downloads from our collection of premium content. To take advantage of this particular offer, contact Chris Asher at 440-338-5151, ext. 5713, or [email protected]. To learn more about the ASM Heat Treating Society, visit www.asminternational.org/hts

HTS EVENT 26th ASM Heat Treating Society Conference and Exposition Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2011 Duke Energy Convention Center • Cincinnati, Ohio USA The ASM Heat Treating Society and American Gear Manufactures Association (AGMA) are co-locating at HT 2011, and the 2011 HTS Conference and Exposition is shaping up to be a don’t-miss event. The conference will feature more than 90 presentations. To view the Technical Program in detail, visit http://www.asminternational.org/content/ Events/Heattreat/technical.jsp A Special Symposium is planned in honor of William R. Jones, president and CEO of Solar Atmospheres Inc., who has made huge contributions to the heat-treating industry. William R. Jones The event also offers the opportunity for pre- and post-conference educational training with six heat-treating- president and CEO related courses, including: Solar Atmospheres Inc.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Surface Treatment of Gears and Tools 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Instructor: David Pye

Vacuum Technology 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Instructor: Ginny Osterman

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2 Basics of Quenching 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Instructor: D. Scott MacKenzie, FASM

Deep Cryogenics Processing Basics 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Instructors: Rozalia Papp and Rick Diekman

THURSDAY, NOV. 3 Fundamentals of Steel Heat Treating 8:00 a.m.-12 noon

Instructor: D. Scott MacKenzie, FASM

Materials Selection and Heat Treatment of Gears 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Multiple instructors from HTS and AGMA

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A mini Materials Camp® will be held on the show floor on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 1 and 2. More than 400 high-school students have registered to attend and take part in the demonstrations. For college and graduate students, the Heat Treat Society will be conducting a poster contest as well as awarding travel grants to those schools who apply for it.

[email protected]. Mark your calendars and plan to attend HT 2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Registration is now open. Visit www. asminternational.org/heattreat for more information.

Visit the Heat Treat Show Exposition Along with a wide range of exhibitors representing equipment manufacturers and supplies and services, a new Heat Treating Solutions Center will offer exhibitor presentations focusing on real-world problem solving for specific manufacturing techniques, products and technologies. Presentations are scheduled Nov. 1-2 in the Heat Treating Solutions Center, a designated area located on the show floor. To register for the expo, visit http://www.asminternational.org/content/Events/ Heattreat/index.jsp. Prime exhibit space, advertising and sponsorship packages are available. To reserve yours today, contact Kelly Thomas, national account manager, at 440-338-1733 or kelly.

Heat Treat 2011’s Virtual Trade Show MyHeatTreatExpo.com is your quickest way to Heat Treat 2011. Don’t miss an opportunity to join the growing list of exhibitors and visitors. Attendees can browse the expo and search the show by product, booth number or company name. Exhibitors get early visibility to prospective customers, and they can showcase their products and services, reach customers and prospects worldwide, and increase exposure by driving traffic to their website. For more information, contact Kelly Thomas at 440-338-1733 or kelly.thomas@ asminternational.org.

Resources Aluminum Reference Library DVD The Aluminum Reference Library DVD provides a complete guide to the selection, designations, processing, properties and performance of aluminum and aluminum alloys. All commercial and standard grades of aluminum and aluminum alloys are covered. The fully searchable disc features 50 chapters from the ASM Handbook series and the complete content of the technical books “Aluminum Alloy Castings: Properties, Processes, and Applications,” “Aluminum Extrusion Technology,” “Aluminum: Properties and Physical Metallurgy,” and “Aluminum Recycling and Processing for Energy Conservation and Sustainability.” The DVD also includes hundreds of alloy data sheets from Alloy Digest, heat-treating data sheets from the Heat Treater’s Guide and engineering diagrams taken from ASM’s series of atlases. Of special note are the more than 5,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams included from the ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center. The DVD can be used with any Windows Platform laptop or desktop computer with a DVD drive. Articles can be printed, and text, tables and images can be copied and pasted. Note: The files on the disc cannot be copied, so the DVD must be present in the local machine for the content to be accessed. Contact [email protected] for more information.

New Education Course Offerings! ASM Harvard Business-Skills Courses Now you can take ASM’s new online courses, developed by Harvard Business Publishing, addressing daily management responsibilities ranging from running a meeting to developing a strategy and everything in between. Choose from more than 42 key management topics taught by world-renowned experts, practitioners and business leaders. Courses include real-world scenarios and self tests and offer downloadable 64 June 2011 - IndustrialHeating.com

forms and worksheets (ideal for continuous use and flexible application). A self-directed format allows managers to hone new skills and receive instant feedback in a safe online environment. Receive Certificates of Achievement upon completion. Begin improving your management expertise today with ASM Harvard Business Skills courses. Take a look and register online. Visit http://www.asminternational.org/portal/site/ www/education/harvard/ for more information.

ASM Education & Training Upcoming Heat Treating Courses: June 20-22, 2011 • Heat Treating for the Non-Heat Treater Instructor: D. Scott MacKenzie, FASM •Homewood Suites, Beachwood, Ohio This course is for the NON-heat treater (part designers, material specifiers, purchasing agents, and technicians) who need a basic education in heat treating and need to learn how to “speak the language.” The focus is on the “value added” by heat treating. The effects that heat treating process parameters have on final product properties and the links between microstructure and mechanical properties are discussed. Aug. 1-5, 2011 Practical Heat Treating Instructor: David Pye • ASM Headquarters, Materials Park, Ohio This course teaches the actual heat-treating process, or the “how” of heat treating, as compared to “Heat Treatment of Steel” and “Principles of Heat Treating,” which are intended to impart the fundamental metallurgical knowledge of what happens when metals are heated and cooled, or the “why” of heat treatment. Course dates subject to change. For more information about these and other ASM education options, contact the Member Service Center at 800-336-5152, ext. 0; or John Peppler at 440-338-5151, ext. 5574 or [email protected]. On the Web, visit www.asminternational.org > Education & Training.

Don’t Forget to Check Out ASM International on Facebook Facebook is an alternative way for members and customers to interact. We encourage wall postings, discussions, member experiences, reviews of our products and services, photos from events, “happy member” photos, bestpractices, etc. Find out what’s going on at ASM (you’ll need a FB account), and stay in touch with your society and your colleagues on Facebook.

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Products

Product of the Month Tip-up Furnaces BeaverMatic BeaverMatic’s tip-up furnaces are precision-engineered powerhouses that can heat treat 40-feet-wide x 10-feet-high x 10-feet-long loads weighing up to 100,000 lbs. They are ideal for carburizing, annealing, stress relieving, nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing. When installed in a system with a quench tank and manipulator, tip-up furnaces can be used for hardening. They utilize energy-efficient ceramic-fiber insulation modules, and circulating fans help maintain excellent temperature uniformity at up to 1750°F. BeaverMatic’s tipup furnace is highly reliable and efficient for heavy loads and high-volume processing requirements. One customer said that they “annealed more than 7 million pounds of product in just 3 ½ months while experiencing a substantial improvement in work flow and throughput by stacking and configuring baskets and trays to process daily loads weighing 70,000-90,000 pounds.” BeaverMatic tip-up furnaces can be custom configured to meet individual company needs. www.beavermatic.com

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Schoelly Imaging Designed for use at operating temperatures up to 2000°C, these specialty high-temperature borescopes provide critical inspection solutions for a wide range of industries, including metallurgy and automotive research. They are available in diameters from 10 mm and lengths up to 2,000 mm. Schoelly Imaging’s hightemperature borescopes feature adjustable focus and are offered with optional illumination and cleaning systems to eliminate particulate buildup on external optical surfaces. They can be equipped with custom mounting flanges tailored to your application, and they are easily adapted for video and image archiving technologies. www.schoellyimaging.com

Metallized Carbon Corp. Metcar Grade 1515 copper-impregnated, carbon-graphite material is specially designed to operate without lubrication in dry and dustprone environments at temperatures up to 750°F. Metcar 1515 is ideal for bearings and thrust washers in a variety of applications. Metcar bearings are self-lubricating, non-galling, dimensionally stable and have high compressive strength. Boasting good thermal properties and high electrical conductivity, the bearings and bearing assemblies are the ideal carbon-graphite solution for applications in harsh operating conditions. www.metcar.com

Vacuum Pump Busch USA The new Dolphin LX B series liquid ring vacuum pumps offer improved pumping speeds at deeper vacuum levels. These high-efficiency, single-stage pumps provide end vacuum levels comparable to most two-stage designs. All Dolphin LX series vacuum pumps are of a compact, motor-mounted design. The standard construction includes cast iron housing, a 316 stainless steel impeller, replaceable port plate and mechanical seal. Requiring minimal maintenance, these rugged pumps are an economical alternative to traditional close-coupled, separate-drive or base-mounted liquid ring configurations. www.buschusa.com

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Safety System Yokogawa Corporation of America An enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system can be used to ensure the safety of plant operations. This new version, ProSafe-RS R3.01, features input modules that can directly receive voltage signals from temperature sensors as well as software that restricts the operations performed by individual engineers and records a log on their activities. In addition, new compact terminal boards have been developed for use with the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system. Enhancements include: temperature direct input modules; access control and operation history management software; and compact terminal boards. www.yokogawa.com/us

Dry Block Calibrator E Instruments International The T400 is a small, lightweight (only 9 pounds), portable dry block calibrator that offers fast heat-up (68° to 752°F in 12 minutes) and cool-down times (752° to 212°F) with excellent performance specifications at a wide operating temperature range (41-806°F). It’s a good choice for standard bench lab work or as a portable field unit. It includes independent over-temperature cutout and temperature sensor burnout protection. www.e-inst.com

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Energy-Saver Update This section showcases the latest energy-saving products and technologies available to the thermal-processing industry. It can also serve as an informational guide for ways to help your company reduce its carbon footprint, which will ultimately lead to reduced energy costs - the ultimate goal of every manufacturer in today's business environment.

AEC, Inc.

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd.

The GP Chiller Series from AEC offers R410a refrigerant, which is chlorine-free and provides improved system efficiency as welll as higher capacity rates. All GP P Series chillers, which are availablee in air-and water-cooled models,, offer a leaving coolant tempera-ture range of 20°F to 80°F. www.aecinternet.com

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd. introduces its new Energy Reduction System (ERS) for continuous furnace systems. This new technology reduces the overall energy requirements of a furnace system by approximately 25% while reducing overall system emissions. The ERS can be retrofitted to most meshbelt furnaces. www.can-eng.com

AFFRI Inc. A A AFFRI’s hardness testing equipment ccan reduce testing costs up to 70% compared to traditional methods, c increase product quality (100% inspection testing on production floor), reduce testing times by 90% (just 60 seconds of analysis time) aand increase energy savings (no need for sample preparation equipment). There is also no need to separate material types. a www.affri.com w

CEIA USA Many outdated induction heating systems run at 40-50% efficiency and require large volumes of cooling water. Replacing this equipment with new induction heating systems can drastically reduce power consumption, reducing your carbon footprint. CEIA Power Cube induction heating systems operate as high as 95% efficiency. In addition, the water cooling requirements can be one-tenth that of older systems, resulting in dual energy savings. www.ceia-usa.com

Dry Coolers Inc. Dry Coolers Inc. offers a heat recovery unit (HRU series) that captures waste heat from hot gas streams to heat water for wash tanks or boilers. The recycled waste heat passes through a finned tube heat exchanger, which is removable for servicing. The unit is insulated for worker safety and can be produced in many configurations to fit the particular application. A motorized bypass damper ensures precision temperature control. www.drycoolers.com

Americarb Rigid Fiberboard Insulation is an energy-saving alternative for hot-zone applications. The proprietary properties of Rigid Fiberboard Insulation increase the thermal efficiency enough to be seen on the bottom line. Customers are seeing energy consumptions reduced on the heating side as well as the cooling side. Contact Americarb today for a quote. www.americarb.com

Eclipse Inc. Eclipse’s new single-ended recuperative burner offers greatly improved efficiency, saving users even more energy. The uniquely designed finned combustor provides increased heat-transfer surface, resulting in greater fuel savings. The new design provides exceptional and improved heat flux and temperature uniformity. It also cuts fuel costs from 35-55% over sealed ambient burners. The SER v5 is for use in any indirect-fired applications requiring state-of-theart burner technology. www.eclipsenet.com

ASCO Numatics ASCO Numatics’ product line includes more than 50,000 solenoid valves, an extensive selection of air preparation equipment and a comprehensive set of position indicators. ASCO’s fluid control products and Numatics’ fluid power products have come together to offer unified fluid automation solutions for a wide range of industry-focused applications. www.asconumatics.com

G-M Enterprises G-M Enterprises has developed several energy saving-technologies for a high-tech vacuum furnace. Thin, curved graphite elements reduce mass, heating and cooling times. In addition, 2.5-inch-thick graphite insulation with CFC hot face offers high efficiency and durability. An advanced control system with seven bands of PIDs of control using auto fine-tuning control adjustment for optimized heating profiles reduces temperature overshoot and shortens cycles, reducing the total energy required. www.gmenterprises.com IndustrialHeating.com - June 2011 67

Energy-Saver Update

Graphite Metallizing Corp.

Metallurgical High Vacuum

GRAPHALLOY® self-lubricating bushings mounted in stainless steel flange blocks combine the corrosion-resistant, self-lubricating properties of GRAPHALLOY with the installation versatility of a flange block and will provide increased reliability and years of trouble-free operation. These flange blocks deliver lifetime energy-saving costs and operating advantages in high-temperature ovens, low-speed and stationary applications such as dampers, and other hard-to-lubricate environments. GRAPHALLOY is suitable for temperatures of +750° F in non-oxidizing environments. www.graphalloy.com

Metallurgical High Vacuum (MHV) offers new or rebuilt oil-sealed vacuum pumps that use high-efficiency electric motors to reduce your energy consumption. MHV pumps have a Reliance “XEX” motor, its most energy-efficient model. Using these units offers substantial reduction in motor watts losses and can significantly reduce power consumption. MHV also incorser” temporates a “water miser” ve perature control valve that reduces water consumption and helps maintain a warmer oil temperature, which reducess es. internal friction losses. m www.methivac.com

Hauck Manufacturing Co. Contact your Hauck sales representative to learn how the use of preheated air and pulse-firing control technologies can lead to substantial energy savings, increased productivity and improved product quality in your process-heating application. In addition, learn how air/fuel ratio control and preventative maintenance offer surprising returns for relatively low investments. www.hauckburner.com

Inductotherm Group Inductotherm Group manufactures the most advanced systems for the melting, heating, welding, refining and thermal processing of metals and materials. We serve a wide range of industries, with energy-saving products that include: Thermatool and Inductoheat IHAZ™ temperature modeling software, Inductotherm multi-output power supplies, Inductoheat non-rotational crankshaft hardening, Consarc ESR and VIM furnaces, and Radyne induction brazing. www.inductothermgroup.com

INEX Inc. Internally Finned Composite Tubes

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum recently announced the introduction of a secondgeneration industrial dry-compressing screw-type vacuum pump line called DRYVAC®. The DRYVAC line is an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional oil-sealed rotary piston pumps and features an integrated frequency converter that allows for a wide operating voltage and frequency drive without the use of motor protection switches. The on-board frequency drive limits current drawn by the pump.

The fins cause turbulence, which eliminates laminar gas flow and enhances heat transfer. The turbulence also improves combustion, which in turn reduces emissions and improves efficiency. The fins themselves provide increased surface area to capture the heat in the combustion gas stream. Aside from offering energy savings, INEX silicon/silicon carbide tubes provide heat treaters with a means to improve furnace uptime, reduce tube replacement costs, reduce recovery time and improve temperature uniformity. www.inexinc.net

Ipsen Inc. The TITAN® Cost & Environment Simulator is an easy stepby-step vacuum heat-treat process analyzer. Plug in your parameters and in moments get a detailed report showing exactly what your cost and energy savings will be with TITAN. Try it today at www.TitanCostSavings.com and see how much you can save. www.ipsenusa.com

Keith Company Bottom-loading furnaces offer energy savings because of their symmetrical heating of four side walls that can facilitate shorter heating cycles without compromising temperature uniformity. Recirculating fans with variable frequency drives that speed up as the temperature rises help to reduce energy consumption. www.keithcompany.com

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Pyromaitre Pyromaitre introduces the latest generation of electric PYRO ovens, developed around oncept that yields highthe proven concept speed heat-transfer ansfer performance and process precision with one goal in mind – PYROviding you solutions for the gy optimal energy cost per part y. in the industry. aitre.com m www.pyromaitre.com

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SECO/WARWICK

Surface Combustion

SECO/WARWICK is introducing a new line of equipment, the CaseMaster Evolution™ universal batch furnace for low-pressure carburizing equipped with an oil or gas quench. It is a state-of-the-art furnace with PreNitLPC®, a new technology that provides process integrity at higher temperatures and allows you to save process costs by reducing the carburizing cycle time. www.seco warwick.com.pl

Surface Combustion and Eclipse are working closely together to implement energy-savings technology on older Surface Combustion furnaces. These retrofits can include burners and internal or external recuperators on conventional Trident® and U-tube heated systems. It also can incorporate single-ended recuperative technology using metallic or silicon-carbide radiant tubes. Combustion piping upgrades to meet today’s NFPA standards can be offered as well. www.surfacecombustion.com

Unifrax Unifrax thermal insulation products provide substantial improvement in thermal performance and can save thousands of dollars in energy costs when used in furnace linings and other hightemperature applications. Contact Unifrax to arrange for a furnace audit, including an analysis of furnace-lining performance and energy-saving recommendations. www.unifrax.com

Steeltech Ltd. With energy costs rising out of control, Steeltech is producing products that will greatly improve your bottom line. Our latest technology, Alternative Energy Savings (AES) Alloy Tube Assemblies, will reduce your energy usage. This technology enables your radiant tube assemblies to operate at normal temperatures and maintain them with considerable savings in natural gas consumption and reduced cycle times. www.steeltechltd.com

Wisconsin Oven Wisconsin Oven is proud to offer their E-Pack™ Oven upgrade. This optional p energy-effi gy cient package, which includes thicker wall panels, high-efficiency motors, duce a door limit switch and other energy-saving items, will reduce operating costs, which saves thousands of dollars! Not only will the E-Pack reduce operating costs, your return on investment will be measured in months, not years! A typical payback for the initiall investment is in the range of 9-15 months. www.wisoven.com

WS Thermal Process Technology WS Thermal offers high-efficiency self-recuperative burners and REKUMAT C ceramic radiant tubes for temperatures up to 2300˚F with tube life up to 10 years. WS provides solutions for new equipment as well as furnace upgrades with proven technology that will reduce fuel consumption up to 50% while increasing available heat. www.flox.com

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Advertiser Website Index Page

Company

Phone

Website

36

AEC Inc.

847-273-7703

www.aecinternet.com

5

AFFRI, Inc.

224-374-0931

www.affri.com

27

Agilent Technologies, Vacuum Products Div.

800-882-7428

www.agilent.com/go/varian

25

Americarb

419-281-5800

www.americarb.com

49

ASCO--Emerson Industrial Automation

800-972-2726

www.ascovalve.com/ModularValves

77

ASM International

800-336-5152

www.asminternational.org

40

Can-Eng Furnaces Ltd.

905-356-1327

www.can-eng.com

31,44

CEIA USA Ltd.

888-532-CEIA

www.ceia-usa.com

62

Centorr Vacuum Industries, Inc.

800-962-8631

www.centorr.com

43

Ceramic Solutions Inc.

936-588-2646

www.ceramicsolutionsconroe.com

39

DMP CryoSystems

915-351-8500

www.CryoSystems.com

15

Dry Coolers Inc.

800-525-8173

www.drycoolers.com

50

Eclipse, Inc.

800-800-3248

www.eclipsenet.com

19

G-M Enterprises

951-340-4646

www.gmenterprises.com

60

Graphite Metallizing Corp.

914-968-8400

www.graphalloy.com/IH

34

H.C. Starck Inc.

617-584-9322

www.hcstarck.com

30

Hauck Manufacturing

717-272-3051

www.hauckburner.com

65

Herring Group, The

630-834-3017

59

IH Training

36

Induction Tooling Inc.

440-237-0711

www.inductiontooling.com

21,53

Inductotherm Group

609-267-9000

www.inductothermgroup.com

62

INEX Incorporated

716-537-2270

www.INEXinc.net

3,56

Ipsen, Inc.

800-727-7625

www.ipsenusa.com

6

Keith Company

800-545-4567

www.keithcompany.com

33

Mersen

01 46 91 54 00

www.mersen.com

29

Nanmac Corp.

508-872-4811

www.nanmac.com

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Nutec Bickley

52-81-8151-0800

www.nutecbickley.com

47

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum USA

724-327-5700

www.oerlikon.com/leyboldvacuum

13

Pyromaitre Inc.

418-831-2576

www.pyromaitre.com

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SECO/WARWICK Corp.

440-327-5000

www.secowarwick.com

37

Sevenstar

010-64348388

www.sevenstar.com.cn

23

SGL Carbon, LLC

800-727-4474

www.sglcarbon.com

4

Solar Manufacturing

215-258-3350

www.solarmfg.com

37

Southern California Gas

800-847-5497

www,socalgas.com/incentives

7, 55

Steeltech Ltd.

616-243-7920

www.steeltechltd.com

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Struers, Inc.

888-787-8377

www.struers.com

8

Surface Combustion Inc.

800-537-8980

www.surfacecombustion.com

11

Unifrax LLC

716-278-3800

www.unifrax.com

17

WIRCO, Inc.

800-348-2880

www.wirco.com

35

Wisconsin Oven Corp.

262-642-3938

www.wisoven.com

65

WS Thermal Process Technology Inc.

440-365-8029

www.flox.com

39

Yeten Combustion and Energy Technologies

90 216 420 22 18

www.yeten.com

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