Obninsk Thermoelectrical company (Obninsk, Russia):

A. A. Ulanovskiy, Cand. Eng., Director

Phoenix TM GmbH (Bad Oeynrhausen, Germany):
M. Taake, Director

“Innovationa and power saving” company (Moscow, Russia):
A. M. Belenkiy, Dr. Eng., General Director
A. N. Bursin, Engineer, Senior Researcher

National University of Science and Technology “MISiS” (Moscow, Russia):
S. I. Chibizova, Cand. Eng., Associate Prof., Dept. “Power-efficient and resource-saving industrial technologies”, e-mail: energomet@misis.ru

An energy-efficient technological process in heating furnaces is aimed at ensuring the optimal temperature mode in a working space of the unit. The main parameter of the process, the actual temperature of the metal, is practically not controlled in furnaces. The furnace management is carried out by the readings of zonal thermocouples, which do not accurately monitor the thermal and temperature state of the metal to be heated in the unit. To ensure the specified quality of heating and heat treatment of the metal, it is necessary to know the actual change in its temperature depending on the thermophysical characteristics of the material, the speed of advancement through the unit, and the readings of the furnace instrumentation industrial control system. The methodology to study industrial units based on the Phoenix TM company automated system has been described, which made it possible to improve heating processes at foreign and domestic enterprises in 1999–2018.

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