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The Influence of Oxide Scale on Heat Transfer during Reheating of Steel
Author(s) -
Wikström Patrik,
Weihong Yang,
Blasiak Wlodzimierz
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200806197
Subject(s) - materials science , thermocouple , mechanics , heat flux , heat transfer coefficient , heat transfer , oxide , work (physics) , slab , scale (ratio) , mass transfer , boundary layer , carbon steel , thermal conduction , metallurgy , thermodynamics , composite material , physics , structural engineering , engineering , corrosion , quantum mechanics
The present work presents methodology and development of a mathematical model for prediction of the influence of oxide scale on heat transfer during reheating of steel in an industrial furnace. In this developed model, temperatures inside the steel billet were measured and with thermocouples at selected places and were collected by a water cooled computer that was traveling inside the slab. CFD is used to calculate the flow field inside of a furnace. The mass‐transfer coefficient of the scale formation is obtained by solving the convection mass‐diffusion equation across a boundary layer to the surface of a flat plate. A model for inverse heat conduction is employed to calculate the local surface temperature and heat flux on top of the growing oxide scale layer on a slab moving through a walking beam reheating furnace. By using the inverse method, the transient temperature and heat flux was firstly determined on the surface of the steel. During subsequent computations, the growth of the scale was calculated and the surface temperature of the oxide scale was extracted by using the Cauchy data from the previous calculations. The sensibility of the model on steel physical parameters is studied, and suitable parameters were obtained for heating a low carbon steel plate in the reheating furnace. Results show that the oxide scale layer should not be neglected in reheating models.