NEW DEVELOPMENT ABOUT SAFETY AND PROCESS IN HEATING EQUIPMENT FOR ANODE BAKING FURNACE

摘要

Following the issuance of a European safety instruction aiming at improving the safety of firing process and protection of operating personal, all the heating equipment operated in European countries as of 2000 must be designed with regards to the new EN 746-2 safety standard. As this instruction applies also to Anode Baking Furnace, Aluminium Pechiney and Setaram Engineering have worked in cooperation to integrate the recommendation of the new standard in the heating equipment used to bake anode in open type baking furnace. This work of improving safety has led to develop new means, of which the use improves the heating process and reduces fuel consumption and tars emissions. This paper presents the result of this work, which has been implemented in the new heating equipment started last year in Alcan Vlissingen, Aluminium Dunkerque, and Tomago Aluminium.