Modelling of an indirect-fired heat treatment line using an implicit multiple one- dimensional approach

Abstract

The need of making quick decisions is a vital factor in today’s industrial production business to stay competitive. Being up to date regarding vital decision criteria such as production and process data is difficult, raising the demand of highly developed quick decision tools. Thus, it is important to decide on the right tools capable of predicting basic process behavior without much effort. This paper presents an approach that decreases the model complexity of an indirect-fired heat treatment line, making it possible to simulate global process parameters as for example temperature profiles at the respective furnace regions.