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Cupola Furnace > Air Liquide in China

Cupola Furnace
For the performance improvement of cupola furnaces, the processes of oxygen enrichment or the oxygen direct injection are
nowadays applied widely.

Your Problem
Our Solution
The Solution in Detail
Your Advantages
What must I do?
Your Problem
A fast starting of your cupola furnace and fast temperature and power change are important to you?
The trough iron temperature is frequently too low and your cupola furnace doesn't bring the desired performance?
You want to achieve a higher melting power?

Our Solution

To increase the power of your cold or hot blast cupola furnace, we provide you the oxygen for the enrichment of the
combustion air or for the direct injection into the center of the combustion according to the ALJETCSI-process.
In this process, the oxygen is directly delivered into the center of the combustion intermittently in supersonic speed by
special nozzles with the help of jet lances.

Oxygen direct injection

The Solution in Detail

The growing requirements for iron quality, performance and price demand a continual improvement of the efficiency of the
melting process. Besides the enrichment of the combustion air with oxygen, the oxygen direct injection process is now
applied in most of melting operations in the cupola furnace. Thanks to our specifically developed O2-nozzles, the advantages
of the employment of oxygen are maximized.
The high-impulse current of the supersonic jet in the ALJETCSI-process enables the oxygen to advance right to the
center of the cupola furnace. Thus the entire furnace cross section is utilized; the loss through the furnace wall is reduced
and the formation of a "dead-man zone" is avoided.
Contrary to the ordinary supersonic injection, in which the supersonic speed and the high effectiveness get lost when the
oxygen amount drops below the designed amount of the installed oxygen jet lances (part-load operation), in our ALJETCSIprocess, the supersonic speed is also in part-load operation fully maintained. This is achieved in the way that the
oxygen is intermittently delivered by the individual oxygen jet lances.
Numerous foundries have already adopted this very effective and flexible method of oxygen addition.

Your Advantages
Advantages of the oxygen enrichment:
power increase of 10-20 %
higher trough temperature (important for ductile iron casting)
saving of coke
fast starting of the furnace
fast temperature and power change possible
low investment costs
oxygen consumption ca. 10-20 m/t.
Advantages of the oxygen direct injection according to the ALJETCSI-process:
much higher effectiveness compared to the oxygen enrichment
very high power increase possible

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Cupola Furnace > Air Liquide in China

higher oxygen employment possible compared to the oxygen enrichment

increase of the trough iron temperature possible >50
high coke rate reduction
reduction of the dust amount
reduction of the addition of silicon and manganese
high flexibility of the furnace
very fast starting of the furnace
applicable at high residual dust content and/or alloying element concentrations

What must I do?

For the solution of your detailed tasks, we are always gladly at your service. We...
analyze the process together with you
introduce the solutions to you
provide you tests if necessary at yours and implement together developed solution at yours

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