Running a heat treat shop is more than just firing up a furnace to treat components; it’s doing so in a way that is both efficient and safe.

Today’s Technical Tuesday is a helpful article from Control Engineering about burners for gas-fired heat treating furnaces, their differences and how they are best utilized in different heat treating applications, technological advances in controls engineering, and combustion safety. The article draws on the skills and knowledge of several in the industry who have contributed to the advances and development in burner manufacturing, operation, and safety.

A couple of excerpts:

“With a careful engineering analysis, it often is possible to obtain more efficiency by optimizing either process or system control. As an added benefit, in many cases, such optimization does not require substantial physical hardware upgrades.” ~ Michael Cochran, marketing engineer, combustion systems at Bloom Engineering Company Inc.

“The goal of both regenerative and recuperative designs is to capture heat energy that would otherwise be wasted.” ~ Control Engineering