📋 Tender Overview
This ambitious project aims at investigating at semi-industrial scale the impact of H2 combustion in Reheating Furnace (RF). Especially, this project will focus on the so-called soaking zone, where the temperatures are the highest in the RF (atmosphere at ~1300°C), and where a modification of the atmosphere (~+15% increased moisture with H2 combustion) will impact the most the surface quality, internal soundness of products and mechanical properties. This project answers the 2nd Process Integration (PI) objective of this RFCS big ticket call. Especially, it will answer the sub-objective 2.5 with the use of the H2 carrier to efficiently transfer heat to semi-finished product, through optimized air-H2 novel burners developed by the partner. To deal with this new atmosphere (chemico-physical changes), commercial and home-made simulation tools will be used to ensure the most optimized operating points of the reheating furnace, answering parts of the sub-objectives 2.5 and 2.6.
