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Fields of Activity / Gas Management and Industrial Furnace Technology / Heating of rolling mill and forging furnaces
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Heating of rolling mill and forging furnaces
  
Dr.-Ing. W. Adler • Tel: 0211 /  6707 - 309 • E-Mail: wolfgang.adler@bfi.de
 


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 Rolling mill furnace

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Burner inside rolling mill furnace
 
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Car-type hearth forging furnace

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Mobile measuring box

 


Your objectives:
• High product quality
• High productivity
• Low costs of energy
• Safe plant operation
• Compliance with legal and enviromental requirements
• Straight on-site plant optimizing

Our services:
• Record of actual status
• On-site measurements
  - long-term measurements at furnace
  - hot-gas concentration in oxidizing and reducing atmosphere
  - high temperature measurement, e.g. of furnace at atmosphere,
    flue gas, combustion air, charge material, furnace walls with
    thermocouples, suction pyrometers, pyrometers, infrared camera
  - photo and video, even inside hot furnace
  - velocity and pressure in fluid streams (up to 1,200 °C)
• Engineering consulting services
• Execution of tests in laboratory and pilot plant scale
• Development of improvement actions   
• Implentation at production line (new development, retrofit)
• Commissioning of optimised equipment
• Numerical simulation of combustion and fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Expertise in frame of DVGW
• Drafting of expert's report, assistance to apply permits