Severiano Pérez Remesal

COGENERACION MEDIANTE RECUPERACION ENERGETICA DE CALOR DE GASES DE ESCAPE

In the world there are a large number of foundry factories that, thanks to their production processes, are great energy consumers. The factories are equipped with various types of furnaces such as gas, electric induction and the cupola furnace. The study carried out in this article focuses on the last type and particularly on those with a continuous casting output. The gases emitted to the outside by these facilities have a high energy content, since they remain at a high temperature and are therefore susceptible to being energy producers. Currently facilities tend to use this energy for heating the air blown into combustion. But even after that use, exhaust heat can be expelled at temperatures above 600oC and can, therefore, still be of further use.