Effect of electrode immersion depth on flows in a slag cleaning furnace

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-119

  Xia, J L ^a   Kankaanpaa T ^a   Ahokainen, T ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Outokumpu Oyj   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electric furnace; Electrode immersion depth; Numerical; Slag flow

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRODE IMMERSION DEPTH;

SLAGS;

FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FURNACE; HEAT TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; SLAG;

EID: 1442288378     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2004.003788     Document Type: Article

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