Viswanathan, NN and Lahiri, AK and Srinivasan, MN (1998) Scientific rationale toward cupola design. In: 101st Casting Congress of the American-Foundrymens-Society, 20-23 Apr. 1997, Seattle, Washington.
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Numerous improvements in cupola design and operation have been made in the past to increase productivity, spout temperature and fuel efficiency. However, these improvements have been based on practice and experience. The present work establishes a scientific rationale for cupola design and operation using a mathematical model. The improved performance of a divided-blast cupola over the conventional one has been successfully explained by the model. Performance of a cupola, as influenced by the important design parameter--the distance of separation between the two rows of tuyeres and operational parameters, such as size of coke and metallic charge, blast rate and charge level--was analyzed. For a divided-blast cupola, an optimum distance of 800-900 mm separation between the two rows of tuyeres was found to be ideal, irrespective of the size of cupola.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Publisher: | American-Foundrymens-Society |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American-Foundrymens-Society. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy) |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2012 09:43 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2018 11:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43951 |
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