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Article: Cupola modeling project nearing phase II.
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- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- May 1, 1990
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Initiated in May 1989, the first phase of a two-part AFS research project aimed at developing a user-friendly computer model of the cupola melting furnace is scheduled for completion July 19,1990. The model permits real-time process control and off-line process optimization. Phase II of the project will begin immediately and the entire project is expected to continue three years.
The model describes the heat transfer, fluid flow and chemical processes taking place within the cupola. According to Daniel Twarog, AFS director of research, it will provide a more comprehensive description of cupola behavior than can be obtained from the empirical correlations that ...