Heat transfer analysis of blast furnace stave cooler

Abstract

Furnace cooling technology is very important for the metallurgical industry as it cansignificantly increase productivity and campaign life of furnaces. A heat transfer mathematical model of a BF staves cooler has been developed and verified by the experiments. The temperature and heat dissipated by stave cooler will be calculated by using ANSYS„¥. The results has corroborated with experimental model used in RSP Blast Furnace. In this work heat transfer analysis has been done at different temperatures (loads) from 573k to 1723k in order to compare which material of staves has given better results than the other, also nitrogen has used in stave coolers of a Blast Furnace in the place of water for cooling purposes.