Continuous chip melting
The continuous chip melting process from INDUGA minimises standstill times for charging, pouring and furnace cleaning and thus leads to a reduction in the process-specific operating costs. The INDUGA combination furnace for continuous melting of damp chips was specially developed for this process. It has a stirring coil to mix the chips into the melt and a high-power channel-type inductor for the actual melting and superheating. Compared with the proven discontinuous automatic chip melting process, continuous melting offers the following additional benefits:
- Higher plant availability
- Optimum utilisation of the furnace power
- Minimum dross
- Less furnace cleaning
- Higher refractory service lives
- Further reduction in energy consumption
Use of the continuous chip melting process is a further step towards increasing productivity and at the same time reducing costs.