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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

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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; [emailprotected] www.can-eng.com

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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

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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

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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.

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.

F E A T U R E

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!

Heat & Corrosion Resistant Alloys/Composites

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.

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.

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.

SPECIAL SECTIONS 63 HTS insider News from the ASM Heat Treating Society

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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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CO2-Reduction Contrarian

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

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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Martensite Morphology Morphology is a term used by metallurgists to describe the study of the shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects. Martensite can be observed in the microstructure of steel in two distinctly different forms – lath or plate – depending on the carbon content of the steel (Fig. 2). In general, lath martensite is associated with high toughness and ductility but low strength, while plate martensite structures are much higher in strength but tend to be more brittle and non-ductile.[2] For alloys containing less than approximately 0.60 wt.% carbon, lath martensite appears as long, thin plates often grouped in packets (Fig. 3). Plate (or lenticular) martensite is found in alloys containing greater than approximately 0.60 wt.% carbon. The microstructure is needle-like or plate-like in appearance across the complete austenite grain (Fig. 4). With carbon contents between 0.60 and 1.00 wt.% carbon, the martensite present is a mixture of

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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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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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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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Picric Acid Hazards and Safe Usage

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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.

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

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.

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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 circ*mstances, 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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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

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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-

Fig. 2. Bottom-loading furnace A with heatseal brick replaced IndustrialHeating.com - June 2011 51

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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., ÌiÜ>ÞÊ,`ÊÊUÊÊ Àwi`]Ê7ÊxÎä{x

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283 East Hellen Road • Palatine, IL 60067 Tel: 847.202.0000 • Fax: 847.202.0004 www.duffycompany.com

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Mowry Enterprises, Inc. New

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Canefco Direct Gas Fired Draw Furnace 11' wide x 75' long (in heat) x 13" high. Max temp 900 ÝF, net capacity 15,000 lbs, 3 zones of control. Comes with re-circulating fans and free standing control panel. For more information, please call your sales representative at 1-877-834-4328 (HEAT).

Park Thermal International (1996) Corp.

For Sale

62 Todd Road, Georgetown, Ontario L7G 4R7 Toll Free: 877-834-4328 • Fax: 905-877-6205 [emailprotected] • Web: www.parkthermal.com

VFS 6 BAR, 36 x 36 x 48: graphite hot zone, high vacuum, internal quench, 2650 F, PLC/ touch screen controls Ipsen 224, 15” x 10” x 24” , 2002 control panel, rebuilt pump, graphite elements, mech pump/ diffusion pump

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VACUUM OIL QUENCH CARBURIZER: C.I. Hayes: 24” x 24” x 24”, Still installed, 2 chamber with isolated oil quench, complete with water recirc system and alloy grids. Heat Chamber is 24 24 36. Quench chamber can be modiÀed for this larger load. VFS HL 36: 2500 F, 24” x24” x38” graphite hot zone, High vacuum, PLC/ touch screen controls, Pressure Quench

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VFS HL 50: 36” x 30” x 48”, graphite hot zone, high vaucum, 1200 CFM external quench, 2650 F 2 BAR: 10” x 10” x 20” hot zone, Graphite. Mech pump and blower, built in 1999. TM 12 x 12 x 20: graphite hot zone, high vacuum, internal quench, 5 psig positive quench ABAR 48 x 48 bottom load: graphite hot zone, high vacuum, external quench, PLC/ touch screen controls

www.mowryenterprises.com email: [emailprotected] Phone: 978-808-8634 Fax: 508-845-4769

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Park Thermal Gas Fired Mesh Belt Furnace 1250ÝF, 65" w x 27' long x 4" high, natural gas, complete with free standing control panel. For more information, please call your sales representative at 1-877-834-4328 (HEAT).

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Company

Phone

Website

AEC Inc.

847-273-7703

www.aecinternet.com

AFFRI, Inc.

224-374-0931

www.affri.com

Agilent Technologies, Vacuum Products Div.

800-882-7428

www.agilent.com/go/varian

Americarb

419-281-5800

www.americarb.com

ASCO--Emerson Industrial Automation

800-972-2726

www.ascovalve.com/ModularValves

ASM International

800-336-5152

www.asminternational.org

Can-Eng Furnaces Ltd.

905-356-1327

www.can-eng.com

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CEIA USA Ltd.

888-532-CEIA

www.ceia-usa.com

Centorr Vacuum Industries, Inc.

800-962-8631

www.centorr.com

Ceramic Solutions Inc.

936-588-2646

www.ceramicsolutionsconroe.com

DMP CryoSystems

915-351-8500

www.CryoSystems.com

Dry Coolers Inc.

800-525-8173

www.drycoolers.com

Eclipse, Inc.

800-800-3248

www.eclipsenet.com

G-M Enterprises

951-340-4646

www.gmenterprises.com

Graphite Metallizing Corp.

914-968-8400

www.graphalloy.com/IH

H.C. Starck Inc.

617-584-9322

www.hcstarck.com

Hauck Manufacturing

717-272-3051

www.hauckburner.com

Herring Group, The

630-834-3017

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Induction Tooling Inc.

440-237-0711

www.inductiontooling.com

21,53

Inductotherm Group

609-267-9000

www.inductothermgroup.com

INEX Incorporated

716-537-2270

www.INEXinc.net

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Ipsen, Inc.

800-727-7625

www.ipsenusa.com

Keith Company

800-545-4567

www.keithcompany.com

Mersen

01 46 91 54 00

www.mersen.com

Nanmac Corp.

508-872-4811

www.nanmac.com

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Nutec Bickley

52-81-8151-0800

www.nutecbickley.com

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum USA

724-327-5700

www.oerlikon.com/leyboldvacuum

Pyromaitre Inc.

418-831-2576

www.pyromaitre.com

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SECO/WARWICK Corp.

440-327-5000

www.secowarwick.com

Sevenstar

010-64348388

www.sevenstar.com.cn

SGL Carbon, LLC

800-727-4474

www.sglcarbon.com

Solar Manufacturing

215-258-3350

www.solarmfg.com

Southern California Gas

800-847-5497

www,socalgas.com/incentives

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Steeltech Ltd.

616-243-7920

www.steeltechltd.com

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Struers, Inc.

888-787-8377

www.struers.com

Surface Combustion Inc.

800-537-8980

www.surfacecombustion.com

Unifrax LLC

716-278-3800

www.unifrax.com

WIRCO, Inc.

800-348-2880

www.wirco.com

Wisconsin Oven Corp.

262-642-3938

www.wisoven.com

WS Thermal Process Technology Inc.

440-365-8029

www.ﬂox.com

Yeten Combustion and Energy Technologies

90 216 420 22 18

www.yeten.com

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