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LARGE-SCALE trials recently carried out on open-hearth furnaces1 emphasize the need for more fundamental knowledge of the flow of fuel, air and combustion products through the furnace chamber. To obtain such information by experimental work on a production furnace presents extreme difficulties due to the high working temperature and the necessity of avoiding interference with production. The problem of flow through such complex ducts having also proved too difficult to solve mathematically, it was decided to use a model technique. Models of open-hearth furnaces with differing port designs were therefore made in ‘Perspex' on a 1/24 linear scale.
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Iron and Steel Institute Special Report No. 37.
J. Inst. Fuel, 21, No. 116, 1 (1947).
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PHILIP, A. Open-Hearth Furnace Models. Nature 161, 479 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161479a0
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