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WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH serviced burners on a roller-hearth furnace at a Schaeffler plant in Germany in order to be operated with both natural gas and hydrogen as fuel with high efficiency and low emissions. The successful commissioning with natural gas has already been carried out. Once the hydrogen infrastructure has been established, commissioning with H₂ as fuel gas will proceed. 

From June 12-16, the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany, will become the center for the international casting and metallurgical industries. Trade fairs GIFA, Metec, Thermprocess and Newcast (GMTN) will cover the complete spectrum of foundry technology, castings, metallurgy and thermal-processing technology.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling is used to explore innovations in combustion that improve temperature uniformity, increase run length and reduce NOx emissions.

According to the Reshoring Initiative’s 2022 data report, reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) job announcements in 2022 were at the highest rate ever recorded. There was 364,000 reshoring and FDI jobs announced for 2022, which was up 53% from 2021’s record number. Fourth-quarter announcements accelerated even more than anticipated due to the Chips and Infrastructure Acts and deglobalization trends. In addition, 2022 brought the total number of job announcements since 2010 to nearly 1.6 million.

If you’re at all like me, you wonder which articles get the most attention on our website. Every year we publish over 40 feature articles, and at the end of the year we gather statistics to see which ones get the most page views. So, without further ado, here are the five most-viewed articles on www.industrialheating.com based on page views in 2022. This ranking applies only to articles published in 2022.

Thyssenkrupp Steel recently inaugurated its newest hot-dip galvanizing line in Dortmund, Germany. By using modern regenerative burners from WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH in double-P radiant tubes, the plant typically saves between 15-30% fuel compared to conventionally heated furnaces. At the same time, particularly low NOx emission values are achieved thanks to the patented FLOX combustion process. Due to the excellent temperature uniformity of the radiant tubes used, the heating system is set up for a later switch to green fuels such as hydrogen.

This article considers the production deficits, logistics turmoil and demand surges that contributed to supply-chain disruptions that were brought into focus with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EcoFornax SLEx is a low-NOx burner solution for process heating and oxidation applications. Incorporating innovative air/fuel mixing technology, it is engineered to deliver a stable, compact, medium-velocity flame with low-NOx emissions. T

Registration is open for IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating online learning course, which begins October 24 and runs for six weeks. Throughout the online course, students learn safe, efficient operation of industrial heating equipment, how to reduce energy consumption and ways to improve the bottom line. The curriculum includes the basics of heat transfer, fuels and combustion, energy use, furnace design, refractories, automatic control, and atmospheres as applied to industrial process heating.

WS is a globally leading manufacturer of high-efficiency and low-emission self-recuperative and self-regenerative burners for the steel and heat-treating industries. We are proud to be the inventors of the game-changing Flameless Oxidation (FLOX®) technology, which enables high air preheat temperatures with low NOx emissions.