Demand-Control Ready Furnace
• Inductotherm Corp., Rancocas, N.J., announced at CastExpo’13 the first delivery of a Powerit Demand- Control Ready furnace to Milwaukee Valve Co.
• Inductotherm offers three furnace lines that ship pre-wired for Powerit Solutions’ Spara DM demand management technology, which allows users to opti- mize peak demand control and participate in smart grid programs.
Electric Melting
• Rayteq showcased its ValueLine Series of compact electric melters shipped factory ready with Fleet Com- mander Interactive Demand Management System to reduce electric utility demand charges.
• Fleet Commander enhances electric resistance melt- ing by synchronizing electric melting furnaces’ power demand to reduce electric utility demand charges.
Aluminum Melting Furnaces
• The JetMelter series of furnaces from Modern Equipment, Port Washington, Wis., uses 700-1,000 Btus per pound of melting aluminum and less than
50 Btus per pound per hour holding. Typical gross melt loss is kept at 0.5% to 1%. Tapped metal temperature is controlled to +/-10F.
Induction Furnace Hood
• ABP Induction, North Brunswick, NJ, gave its new Eco- Top Hood a CastExpo debut. Available for 1 to 60-ton capacity furnaces, the hood assembly reduces heat losses and removes exhaust emissions during charging, melting and casting.
Ductile Iron Magnesium Treatment
• Elkem Foundry Products, Oslo, Norway, showed a video of a new magnesium treatment practice for ductile iron that uses Elkem’s Lamet nodulizer and Topseed cover alloy to treat molten iron and create the desired nodular- graphite microstructure.
• Te welded steel furnace hood is refractory lined and attached with a floating system to provide a level seal over the melt.
• When iron is poured into a specially designed ladle containing the alloys, the normally explosive reaction does not occur immediately. Instead, the reaction is quieter and takes nearly twice as long as conventional treatments with less spilling, fume and slag.
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