HEAT CONDUCTION AND HEAT EXCHANGE IN TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES

OPTIMIZATION OF TEMPERATURE REGIMES
OF WALKING-BEAM HEATING FURNACES

M. L. German

UDC 536.33

Methods and results of optimization of operating temperature 
conditions of walking-beam heating furnaces are presented. The influence 
of the distance between the steel blanks treated in such a furnace 
on the characteristics of the optimum regimes of their heating has 
been investigated.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, 
No. 4, pp. 105-109, July-August, 2006. Original article submitted 
March 22, 2006.