Development of an Engineering Model of Fuel Pellet Sintering in Multi-Zone Furnaces

摘要

An engineering model for sintering of fuel pellets is presented. The model is based on a previous, fully developed, mathematical model, which was implemented by the method of finite volumes, for the process of heat-and-mass transfer of a fuel pellet with arbitrary arrangement in the sintering drawing boat. The main task of the engineering model was to accurately simulate the sintering process for fuel pellets in industrial furnaces with different numbers and types of heating zones. The program implementing the numerical calculations had to be undemanding in terms of computing resources and work stably on average (in terms of parameters) personal computers.