Oxygen-enrichment of side well aluminum furnaces. I

This article describes a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model used to evaluate furnace performance of the #8 furnace at Roth Bros./Philip Services. The main objective of this work was to evaluate the furnace's ability to produce aluminum with different burner types and to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each firing mode. The overall objective was helping aluminum producers increase the production of reverberatory furnaces at low cost, while simultaneously addressing environmental issues such as NOx.