Waste Heat Reduction and Recovery for Industrial Furnaces

In Waste Heat Reduction and Recovery for Industrial Furnaces, you'll learn ...

• The source of heat losses in an industrial furnace
• Why addressing waste-gas heat losses has the biggest impact on a furnace’s energy efficiency
• The impact of rich and lean combustion on furnace efficiency and toxic by-products in the exhaust stack
• How to increase furnace efficiency through optimal loading and scheduling

Overview

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Credit: 1 CPD

Length: 11 pages

Thermal efficiency of furnaces and other process heating equipment, such as ovens, melters, heaters, and kilns is the ratio of useful heat delivered to the load and heat supplied to the heating equipment. For most heating equipment, a large amount of the heat supplied is wasted in the form of exhaust or flue gases. These losses depend on various factors associated with the design and operation of the heating equipment.

In this course you’ll learn waste heat reduction and recovery opportunities for improving furnace efficiency, productivity and emissions performance.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify sources of heat loss from fuel-fired heating equipment.
• Explain the factors that determine waste-gas losses.
• Describe steps for increasing energy efficiency by reducing exhaust-gas heat losses.
• Explain methods of waste heat recovery.
• Describe an energy reduction and recovery strategy based on the methods presented.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.