| Abstract: | Technological development of furnaces over conventional melting methods of diesel or gas‐fired furnaces is necessary. These furnaces have large amount of heat losses and hence their thermal efficiency is very low. Moreover, these furnaces do not produce good quality melt because of the chances of embedment of impurities from after‐combustion gases and agitation. The time required for melting in such furnaces is more. Also, insulation is not provided and there are heat losses which increase the time of melting. An electric resistance heating furnace is developed which overcomes all the problems associated with the fuel‐fired conventional furnace. The thermal efficiency of this developed furnace is found to increase quite drastically up to 85%, which is by about 33% more than conventional furnace; while reducing the operating cost of furnace. This benefits industry overall by profit of 70% and certainly can replace the existing conventional fuel‐fired furnaces. |
