Electronic edition ISSN 1574-0579

Stirring of aluminum in the bath of the industrial aluminum furnace with a rod inductor generating travelling magnetic field

S. Khripchenko , M. Zhelnin , A. Kostina , A. Prokhorov , O. Plekhov

Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS, 1 Acad. Korolev str., 614013 Perm, Russia

Abstract
The performance of a rod inductor which generates a travelling magnetic field for stirring an aluminum melt in the bath of the reverberatory furnace is studied. It is shown that the inductor of this type can drive smooth stirring of the melt throughout the melting bath, so that admixtures introduced into the melt can be homogeneously and quickly distributed in the liquid metal. To provide the maximum stirring rate, a three-phase low-frequency AC current should be necessarily supplied to the inductor. However, as the numerical experiment demonstrates, there is only a slight decrease in stirring rate when a three-phase current of 50 Hz is passed through the inductor. Figs 10, Refs 18.