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International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS)
Vol. 12, No. 2, Jun 2021, pp. 803~810
ISSN: 2088-8694, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i2.pp803-810  803
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Energy conservation at high power consuming holding furnace
with modified coil design and electrical circuits
D. Karthikeyan, V. P. Arumbu, P. Divya, K. Vijayakumar, K. Mani Rahulan
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Jan 23, 2021
Revised Mar 18, 2021
Accepted Apr 29, 2021
This paper deals with high energy consuming induction holding furnace. The
improved version of coil design along with additional electrical interlocks
and alarm, modified hydraulic controls, strengthening mechanical structures
and energy saving proposals at holding furnace fume extraction system
ensures trouble free operation of furnace and hence continuity of production
at all the planned plant operational days. This project involves in purchasing
of D-section copper extruded coil from Europe – Switzerland for its extended
length from existing 3 meters long to 9 Meters which enables in reduction of
coil joints. The performance of the holding furnace has improved in terms of
its energy consumption per ton of liquid metal. The payback period for the
estimated investment will be less than 2 years.
Keywords:
Bean time between failure
D-Section copper coil earth
leakage system
Energy conservation
Hydraulic system
Mean time to repair reduction
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
D. Karthikeyan
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India
Email: karthipncl@gmail.com.
1. INTRODUCTION
Among the industries, casting manufacturing foundry industry consumes more electrical energy to
melt the raw material in to liquid form to pour in the desired moulds made as per the requirement. The
melting process consists of melting furnace, holding furnace and pouring furnace. Each stage consumes its
specific energy based on its type and capacity. We at M/s. Brakes India Ltd., foundry division, and
sholinghur operates Induction type coreless furnaces for this melting and holding of metal [1]-[4]. The
average power consumption per ton of metal at melting furnace is 540 units and for holding furnace is 40
units/ton of liquid metal.
Foundry process is a continuous process, all the machines are operated in sequence to complete the
process of metal pouring in to moulds. Any minor stoppage at line causes huge energy loss. The energy spent
towards preparing the metal, moulds, operating dust collector equipment’s and the process equipment’s were
all in vain. Hence, it is advantage when the machines operate at lesser breakdown occurrences and duration.
This project of reducing the energy consumption at holding furnace by identifying the root cause of failures
and implementing the improvements in the phased manner [5].
Figure 1, repesents the principle of electromagnetic induction utilizes the magnetic effect of the
electrical current. When two conductors are magnetically coupled, and if the first conductor is carrying the
A.C electrical current a secondary current is induced in a second conductor. This induced secondary current
can be utilized to generate heat in the circuit of the second conductor by exploiting the electrical losses due to
the current. In conventional method of heating, there is a hot source and a cold receiver. The source is going
on expanding energy irrespective of whether the receiver receives it or not. While in induction heating, there
is no hot source. Heat is induced inside the metal itself by the electromagnetic induction. And hence, energy
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is expanded only when metal receives it [6]. The hottest thing is the metal itself. So, the losses of hot sources
are totally eliminated. Since the energy is not transferred by conventional method of heat transfer by
conduction, convection or radiation. But it is generated (induced) in the metal itself. It is most efficient and
clean method of heating the metal. Since the heat is generated within the metal itself, the amount of energy
transfer per given mass of metal (power density) can be increased and heating process could be made
quicker. And as the process becomes quicker, the process of efficiency improves.
To generate quick heat in the metal, we need to generate higher electrical losses in the metal to be
melted or heated. The heating is directly related with the frequency of the electrically induced current. And
so, to generate more heat (electrical losses), the higher frequency should be generated by designing proper
inverter circuits. Even though the higher frequency of induced current is better for faster heating, there are
other effects of this frequency which sometimes restricts the frequency rise. These effects are, liquid metal
stirring in case of melting, depth of penetration of heat in case of heating or welding [7].
These other effects of frequency are also of great help to make the liquid metal stir and mix properly
in melting and to control the depth of hardening or depth of welding in heating and welding. So, the
frequency of the inverter is to be selected considering all these effects of it. The phenomenon of electrical
induction is the induction of the secondary current in to the piece of the metal to be heated or melted or to be
welded. To induce (generate) current in to the piece, it has to be placed in to the centre of the coil of
conductor, which is carrying the electrical current of selected frequency. Thus, this piece forms the secondary
connection between electrical supply and piece. However, there is the magnetic coupling between coil and
the piece [8].
Figure 1. Magnetic field creation in the coil by the induced current
The stirring of the liquid metal is of vital importance for better alloying of the ingredients of the
liquid metal. The stirring also helps to remove the entrapped air and float the slag on the top of the liquid
metal [9], a) induction coil (coil of the conductor), b) electrical current passing through the induction coil, c)
shunts around the periphery of the coil, d) monolithic refractory lining between induction coil and the metal,
and e) metal.
The 22 Ton capacity holding furnace is fabricated using 45x32mm D section extruded copper
wounded coil. The total coil is made using 9 segments of coil turns. Each segment is made up of 4 to 5 turns.
The extruded 3 meter coil is jointed using suitable ferrule joints is wounded on a drum to bring the required
round shape. This total 43 turn coil is connected across 1200V, 600kw Power transformer. The total number
of joints to make this coil is around 80 Nos. This total coil is placed in a steel shell arrangement and locked
with required arrangements to avoid dislocations. 8 nos of copper shunts placed all around the circumference
of coil to nullify the leakage fluxes creating at coil. These shunts helps in eliminating leakage fluxes and also
gives required mechanical support to the electrical coil from expansion and contraction due to heating and
cooling process. A closed loop cooling system will take care of the coil from overheating. Monitoring, alarm,
power trip controls were incorporated to the coil to avoid any damage due to heat. This internal cooling is
maintained with in the limit using secondary cooling tower and heat exchanger setup these secondary cooling
also maintained with in the limit by periodical cleaning of tank, cooling fills and heat exchangers. This coil is
supplied through 3ph, 11kv/1200V, and 600kw transformer. A phase balancing panel consists of series
connected inductor and capacitor banks connected through contactors are balancing the 3ph current [10].
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The reasons associated to this is,are as follows first one is water leak due to copper coil joint failure
& high temperature at primary and secondary cooling waters, next to it is lifting and lowering problems due
to hydraulic circuits & earth leak detections due to high temperature at cooling jackets, followed with PLC
hardware failures, incompetent in trouble shootings, heat loss due to fume extractor operation, field failures
of electrical components with more time taken to correct the failures, and the alarm and feedback facilities
are not user friendly.
In addition with the above constraints the following problems are added towards the maintance and
electrical power consumptions they are briefly given as following the first one is more energy consumption /
ton of liquid metal. Secondly the present level of energy/ton of liquid metal is 40 Unit More number of plant
stoppages due to break downs at holding furnace. Number of break downs, at year wise are 2016-1:5
occurrences, 2017-18:5 occurrences, and 2018-19:1 occurrence the third problem is related to the repair and
maintenance cost is high, at 2016-17:15 Lakhs, 2017-18:10 Lakhs, and 2018-19:1.5 Lakhs lastly its deals
with the production shutdown in the range of Less productivity during the failure days. Loss of 10 Tons of
metal pouring / hr break down.
2. OBJECTIVES
The following derived objectives gives the soloution for the above mentioned problems which are labeld here
as follows first and foremost is to incorporate electrical controls to raise alarm before failures that causes
energy losses, Modifying furnace coil design to avoid joint failures & incorporating additional controls on
hydraulic circuits.finally to Improve the condition of instrumentation panel with cooling arrangement,
Strengthening the mechanical structures and at last implementing energy saving proposals at fume extraction
system.
2.1. Operation of 22 Ton capacity holding furnace
2.1.1. Existing model introduction
Figure 2 reperents the 22T capacity holding furnace consists of power and instrumentation panel.
The furnace receives power from phase balancing power. The furnace is of core less type induction furnace
operating at main’s frequency [11]-[14].
It does not possess any semiconductor devices. It has got combination of series reactors and shunt
capacitors to balance the three-phase current. Cooling system to the coil is by demin water with the
conductivity of less then 100 micro siemens. We got two such furnaces. One will operate at a time and the
next one will be stand by. It will operate around 50 day’s cycle [15]-[17].
Figure 2. Block diagram of the existing model
2.1.2. Comparison between exixting and propsed block diagram
Figure 3 represents the block diagram of the proposed model with the comparison of need changes
discovered between the existing and the proposed model which clearly shown the major diffrence in the coil
design with respect to the exixting one, the propsed model deals with the new coil design with addition
coupling placed at the right location which reduce the major problem like high power consumption and high
maintance cost, in addition the key points of difference between the block digrams are addressed for clear
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understanding towards the improved model in Table 1 [18]-[20]. Table 2 represents the break down details
happens in the industries from the period of Apr 2016-Mar 2019 and the loction of the failure happens has
been repesentedin the Figure 4.
Figure 3. Block diagram of the proposed model
Table 1. Comparison with existing and proposed model block diagram
No. Block diagram – Existing Dlog diagram – Proposed
1. Number of coil joints are more – around 80 joints Number of coil joints are reduced to 22 joints which avoid
failure rate of coil joints and water leak issues
2. No water level controller at DM water tank Water level controller at DM water tank introduced
3. No pressure sensor at filter water line Pressure sensor at filter water line to raise alarm to avoid
break down
4. No temperature sensor at filter water line Temperature sensor at filter water line to raise alarm to avoid
break down
5. Total coil is connected across the supply - more hear
generation at metar parts
Dummy coil is provided at top and bottom to avoid heating of
metal parts and eath leak issues
6. No ground leak detector check methods Testing facilities created to check the ground leak detection
7. No alert alarm for cooling tower fan operation – will
lead to high temperature issues
Gemerate alarm for cooling tower fan off status – will
eliminate cooling water high temperature issues
8. More PLC hardware failure Cooling fan with filters provided
9. No power tap position controller to control wastage of
power
Powe tap position controller to save energy.
Table 2. Break down details from Apr 2016-Mar 2019
1 Holding furnace-1 01.08.2016
Holding furnace-1 coil water leak
from bottom 5th turn
Immediately furnace emptied. Spare
holding furnace switched on and put
into operation.
2 Holding furnace-2 03.08.2016
Holding furnace-2 water leak
from inlet turn port
Immediately furnace emptied. Brazing
work carried out at coil inlet turn port
and put into operation.
3 Holding furnace-2 03.10.2016
holder tilting cylinder oil leak due
to piston rod gland seal worn out
Spare tilting cylinder replaced.
4 Holding furnace-1 06.01.2018
Holding furnace-1 lifting up/down
not working
Holder up/down not working due to
Proportional card base terminal cut
Spare proportional card with base
replaced.
5 Holding furnace-1 19.03.2019
Holding furnace-1 water leak at
bottom coil
Water leak noticed at bottom coil 7 th
turn brazed area got crack. Same was
brazed with copper supports and
strengthened.
6 Holding furnace-2 27.03.2019
Holding furnace-2 tilting
movement problem
Pressure relief valve spool got struck.
Spare relief valve changed after that
production continued.
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Figure 4. Failure holder furnace panel.
2.2. Failure details
The major drwabacks in the existing model are listed over here as follows as no power tap position
controller to control wastage of power, Number of coil joints are more-around 80 joints, Total coil is
connected across the supply-more hear generation at metal parts & No alert alarm for cooling tower fan
operation-will lead to high temperature issues and at the last no ground leak detector check methods with
more PLC hardware failures.
2.3. Coil related modifications
To resolve the above mentioned problems step by step action taken has been incorporated in a the
short time duration of gap improve the coil performance which are labelled as follows initially it has been
Providing additional water cooling to the cooling jacket, Apr-Sep 2017 next to it replacing existing coil with
better coil joint, Apr-Sep 2017 & increasing the length of coil from 3 meters to 9 meters to reduce the
number of coil joints, Apr-Sep 2017 with relocating the power feeding joint to avoid induction losses, Apr-
Sep 2017 & Improving coil segment joints, Apr-Sep 2017.
2.4. Hydraulic system modifications & improvements at instrument panel
Added with the coil design the hydraulic system modification and panel side development has been
implemented in order to meet out the solution in the fullest way they are narrated as follows, firstly
improving the cooling of hydraulic oil, Oct 17-March 18, Fixing replacement frequency of oil filter elements,
Oct 17-March 18, incorporating oil level low sensor to alert and to reduce oil cost and the repair time, Oct
17-March 18 & giving additional angle supports to avoid cracks, Oct 17-March 18, incorporating suction
damper control for various stage operation and furnace & providing cooling fan arrangement for instrument
panel, Apr-Sep 2018, providing air circulation with necessary filter to avoid dust entry, Apr-Sep 2018 with
proving water level sensor for primary water tank, Apr-Sep 2018 & incorporating necessary fuse protection
for individual field outputs for protection and easy trouble shootings, Oct 18-March 19 [21]-[25]. Increasing
the capacitor at panel to improve power factor of the feeder, Oct 18-March 19 added with SOP for fume
extraction operation to save electrical energy, Oct 18-March 19 & displaying electrical schematic diagram for
better understanding, Oct 18-March 19. Displaying the functional procedures of major systems like cooling,
Hydraulic, power, Oct 18-March 19 with the identification of circuit components with description and circuit
reference for easy trouble shooting, Apr-Sep 2018 & Developing fault annunciation at HMI for easy trouble
shooting, Apr-Sep 2018
After all the modification has been done is a huge reduction in breakdown occurrences at holding
furnacere which is shown in graph at Figure 5 and the improvement in holder energy consumption is indicted
in the graph at Figure 6.
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Figure 5. Reduction in breakdown occurrences at
holding furnacere
Figure 6. Improvement in holder energy
consumption
3. ENERGY SAVING CALCULATION TO ACHIVE IMPROVEMENT
The evaluation of the improvement has been calculated as energy saving which has narrow down as
following, firstly Total metal handled by this holding furnace for the year 2018-19, is 55000 Tons added with
it the average energy consumption/ton of metal is 35.26 units & Energy saving/ton of metal compared to last
year, 2 units secondly the total energy saved for the year 2018-19 (11 months), 55000x2=110000 units in
terms of cost: 1, 10.000xRs, 7=7, 70.000/=for this year.
Note: We have not considered the benefit of production by this improvement
− Investment cost for the above improvements
The following suggestions are identified as a part of improvement related to the financial aspect in
the industry which are given as ,The major cost involved is in the coil joint modification & the original length
of 3 meter with 80 Joint is replaced by 9 meter long and 22 joints, Secondly the cost incurred for the above
coil modification is Rs, 12.0 Lakhs/coil thirdly the cost incurred for the other improvements is Rs, 3.0 Lakhs,
at last the huge savings in the total investment is Rs, 15.0 Lakhs with the Payback period is 2 years
Note: we have not considered the benefit of production by this improvement.
4. HARDWARE PHOTOS OF IMPROVEMENT
Figure 7 -10 represents the true industrial pictures of improvement ideas implants with respect to
coil design and its overall control aspects. The first figure 7 represents the changes made in the coil design
i.e. the number of joint has been reduced added to it the figure 8 denotes its physical industrial representation
in order to monitor the temperature level of the coil the temperature control set value has been fixed in the
new design the whole design has been controlled automatically using scada control panel.
Figure 7. Implemetaion of coil design in the
industries
Figure 8. overall view of improved coil design in the
industries
Figure 9. Coil temperature set value Figure 10. Control panel for coil temperature control
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5. CONCLUSION
By implementing the identified improvements at holding furnace, we are saving around 1 Lakh
electrical units/year apart from benefits of production advantages. The main reason for increase of electrical
energy consumption/ton of liquid metal handling is the machine break downs due to electrical controls
failures, hydraulic control failures, and water leak from induction coil joints, structural damages, and PLC
hardware components failure. The identified improvements against the failures are to incorporate electrical
controls to minimize energy losses, external water pressure and temperature sensors and by providing
additional water cooling to the cooling jacket, & fixing water level sensor for primary water tank, and
providing additional controls for detecting earth leakage. Modifying furnace coil design to avoid joint
failures, by replacing existing coil with better coil joint, increasing the length of coil from 3 meters to 9
meters to reduce the number of coil joints, relocating the power feeding joint to avoid induction losses, and
improving coil segment joints.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my co authors and my industrial friends, who had extended their valuable
support to my research work.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
D. Karthikeyan was awarded a B.E. Degree from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department of A.I.H.T College, Chennai, India (affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, India),
in 2009; and M.Tech. Graduated from SRMIST (formerly SRM University), Kattankulathur,
India, in Power Electronics and Drives in 2013, he completed his Ph.D. in Multilevel Inverters in
2019. He currently works as an Assistant professor at SRMIST (formerly SRM University) in
the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kattankulathur, and Chennai, India. His current
research interests include power electronic multilevel inverters, AC drives, and DC drives. He is
a member of various professional societies such as the IEEE, IET, IEI and ISCA.
Arumbu V P received her B.E. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from Kalasalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai, India
(affiliated with Anna University, Chennai, India), in 2005; and her M.Tech. degree in Power
Electronics and Drives from SRMIST (Formerly SRM University), Kattankulathur, India, in
2013, Now she is doing her Ph.D. degree in SRMIST . She was previously working with thiru
seven hills polytechnic as a lecturer in EEE dept, prior to that she was working at SA
polytechnic Chennai, India. Her current research interests include Power Electronics, Multilevel
Inverters.
P Divya received her B.Sc & M.Sc physics in E.G.S.Pillay Arts & Science College,
Nagapattinam tamilnadu, india (Affliated to Bharathidasan university trichy) in the year 2011 &
2012 respectively she had completed her M.Phil physics in T.B.M.L.College, Porayar,
Nagapattinam. (Affliated to Bharathidasan university trichy) now she is doing her Ph.D in
SRMIST.Her area of research interests are Nano particle synthesis & Non linear optics.
Vijayakumar Krishnasamy received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Annamalai University,
Annamalai Nagar, India; and his Ph.D. degree from SRMIST (Formerly SRM University),
Kattankulathur, India. He is presently working as a Professor and as the Head of the Department
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of SRMIST (Formerly SRM University). His current
research interests include power system modeling, power electronics converters for grid-
connected PV systems, computational intelligence applications in power systems, FACTS
devices, and power quality. He has been awarded the Best Teacher Award in his department for
the academic years 2004 and 2006. He is a member of various professional societies such as the
IEEE, IET, FIE, ISTE, and ISCA.
K Mani Rahulan received his M.Sc & Ph.D (material science) at Anna university guindy
Chennai tamilnadu india, in the year 2006 & 2013 respectively. He currently works as an
Assistant professor at SRMIST (formerly SRM University) in the department of physics and
nanotechnology.his current research interest includes Nano particle synthesis & Non linear
optics.

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  • 1. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS) Vol. 12, No. 2, Jun 2021, pp. 803~810 ISSN: 2088-8694, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i2.pp803-810  803 Journal homepage: http://ijpeds.iaescore.com Energy conservation at high power consuming holding furnace with modified coil design and electrical circuits D. Karthikeyan, V. P. Arumbu, P. Divya, K. Vijayakumar, K. Mani Rahulan SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Jan 23, 2021 Revised Mar 18, 2021 Accepted Apr 29, 2021 This paper deals with high energy consuming induction holding furnace. The improved version of coil design along with additional electrical interlocks and alarm, modified hydraulic controls, strengthening mechanical structures and energy saving proposals at holding furnace fume extraction system ensures trouble free operation of furnace and hence continuity of production at all the planned plant operational days. This project involves in purchasing of D-section copper extruded coil from Europe – Switzerland for its extended length from existing 3 meters long to 9 Meters which enables in reduction of coil joints. The performance of the holding furnace has improved in terms of its energy consumption per ton of liquid metal. The payback period for the estimated investment will be less than 2 years. Keywords: Bean time between failure D-Section copper coil earth leakage system Energy conservation Hydraulic system Mean time to repair reduction This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license. Corresponding Author: D. Karthikeyan Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India Email: karthipncl@gmail.com. 1. INTRODUCTION Among the industries, casting manufacturing foundry industry consumes more electrical energy to melt the raw material in to liquid form to pour in the desired moulds made as per the requirement. The melting process consists of melting furnace, holding furnace and pouring furnace. Each stage consumes its specific energy based on its type and capacity. We at M/s. Brakes India Ltd., foundry division, and sholinghur operates Induction type coreless furnaces for this melting and holding of metal [1]-[4]. The average power consumption per ton of metal at melting furnace is 540 units and for holding furnace is 40 units/ton of liquid metal. Foundry process is a continuous process, all the machines are operated in sequence to complete the process of metal pouring in to moulds. Any minor stoppage at line causes huge energy loss. The energy spent towards preparing the metal, moulds, operating dust collector equipment’s and the process equipment’s were all in vain. Hence, it is advantage when the machines operate at lesser breakdown occurrences and duration. This project of reducing the energy consumption at holding furnace by identifying the root cause of failures and implementing the improvements in the phased manner [5]. Figure 1, repesents the principle of electromagnetic induction utilizes the magnetic effect of the electrical current. When two conductors are magnetically coupled, and if the first conductor is carrying the A.C electrical current a secondary current is induced in a second conductor. This induced secondary current can be utilized to generate heat in the circuit of the second conductor by exploiting the electrical losses due to the current. In conventional method of heating, there is a hot source and a cold receiver. The source is going on expanding energy irrespective of whether the receiver receives it or not. While in induction heating, there is no hot source. Heat is induced inside the metal itself by the electromagnetic induction. And hence, energy
  • 2.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2021 : 803 – 810 804 is expanded only when metal receives it [6]. The hottest thing is the metal itself. So, the losses of hot sources are totally eliminated. Since the energy is not transferred by conventional method of heat transfer by conduction, convection or radiation. But it is generated (induced) in the metal itself. It is most efficient and clean method of heating the metal. Since the heat is generated within the metal itself, the amount of energy transfer per given mass of metal (power density) can be increased and heating process could be made quicker. And as the process becomes quicker, the process of efficiency improves. To generate quick heat in the metal, we need to generate higher electrical losses in the metal to be melted or heated. The heating is directly related with the frequency of the electrically induced current. And so, to generate more heat (electrical losses), the higher frequency should be generated by designing proper inverter circuits. Even though the higher frequency of induced current is better for faster heating, there are other effects of this frequency which sometimes restricts the frequency rise. These effects are, liquid metal stirring in case of melting, depth of penetration of heat in case of heating or welding [7]. These other effects of frequency are also of great help to make the liquid metal stir and mix properly in melting and to control the depth of hardening or depth of welding in heating and welding. So, the frequency of the inverter is to be selected considering all these effects of it. The phenomenon of electrical induction is the induction of the secondary current in to the piece of the metal to be heated or melted or to be welded. To induce (generate) current in to the piece, it has to be placed in to the centre of the coil of conductor, which is carrying the electrical current of selected frequency. Thus, this piece forms the secondary connection between electrical supply and piece. However, there is the magnetic coupling between coil and the piece [8]. Figure 1. Magnetic field creation in the coil by the induced current The stirring of the liquid metal is of vital importance for better alloying of the ingredients of the liquid metal. The stirring also helps to remove the entrapped air and float the slag on the top of the liquid metal [9], a) induction coil (coil of the conductor), b) electrical current passing through the induction coil, c) shunts around the periphery of the coil, d) monolithic refractory lining between induction coil and the metal, and e) metal. The 22 Ton capacity holding furnace is fabricated using 45x32mm D section extruded copper wounded coil. The total coil is made using 9 segments of coil turns. Each segment is made up of 4 to 5 turns. The extruded 3 meter coil is jointed using suitable ferrule joints is wounded on a drum to bring the required round shape. This total 43 turn coil is connected across 1200V, 600kw Power transformer. The total number of joints to make this coil is around 80 Nos. This total coil is placed in a steel shell arrangement and locked with required arrangements to avoid dislocations. 8 nos of copper shunts placed all around the circumference of coil to nullify the leakage fluxes creating at coil. These shunts helps in eliminating leakage fluxes and also gives required mechanical support to the electrical coil from expansion and contraction due to heating and cooling process. A closed loop cooling system will take care of the coil from overheating. Monitoring, alarm, power trip controls were incorporated to the coil to avoid any damage due to heat. This internal cooling is maintained with in the limit using secondary cooling tower and heat exchanger setup these secondary cooling also maintained with in the limit by periodical cleaning of tank, cooling fills and heat exchangers. This coil is supplied through 3ph, 11kv/1200V, and 600kw transformer. A phase balancing panel consists of series connected inductor and capacitor banks connected through contactors are balancing the 3ph current [10].
  • 3. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Energy conservation at high power consuming holding furnace … (D. Karthikeyan) 805 The reasons associated to this is,are as follows first one is water leak due to copper coil joint failure & high temperature at primary and secondary cooling waters, next to it is lifting and lowering problems due to hydraulic circuits & earth leak detections due to high temperature at cooling jackets, followed with PLC hardware failures, incompetent in trouble shootings, heat loss due to fume extractor operation, field failures of electrical components with more time taken to correct the failures, and the alarm and feedback facilities are not user friendly. In addition with the above constraints the following problems are added towards the maintance and electrical power consumptions they are briefly given as following the first one is more energy consumption / ton of liquid metal. Secondly the present level of energy/ton of liquid metal is 40 Unit More number of plant stoppages due to break downs at holding furnace. Number of break downs, at year wise are 2016-1:5 occurrences, 2017-18:5 occurrences, and 2018-19:1 occurrence the third problem is related to the repair and maintenance cost is high, at 2016-17:15 Lakhs, 2017-18:10 Lakhs, and 2018-19:1.5 Lakhs lastly its deals with the production shutdown in the range of Less productivity during the failure days. Loss of 10 Tons of metal pouring / hr break down. 2. OBJECTIVES The following derived objectives gives the soloution for the above mentioned problems which are labeld here as follows first and foremost is to incorporate electrical controls to raise alarm before failures that causes energy losses, Modifying furnace coil design to avoid joint failures & incorporating additional controls on hydraulic circuits.finally to Improve the condition of instrumentation panel with cooling arrangement, Strengthening the mechanical structures and at last implementing energy saving proposals at fume extraction system. 2.1. Operation of 22 Ton capacity holding furnace 2.1.1. Existing model introduction Figure 2 reperents the 22T capacity holding furnace consists of power and instrumentation panel. The furnace receives power from phase balancing power. The furnace is of core less type induction furnace operating at main’s frequency [11]-[14]. It does not possess any semiconductor devices. It has got combination of series reactors and shunt capacitors to balance the three-phase current. Cooling system to the coil is by demin water with the conductivity of less then 100 micro siemens. We got two such furnaces. One will operate at a time and the next one will be stand by. It will operate around 50 day’s cycle [15]-[17]. Figure 2. Block diagram of the existing model 2.1.2. Comparison between exixting and propsed block diagram Figure 3 represents the block diagram of the proposed model with the comparison of need changes discovered between the existing and the proposed model which clearly shown the major diffrence in the coil design with respect to the exixting one, the propsed model deals with the new coil design with addition coupling placed at the right location which reduce the major problem like high power consumption and high maintance cost, in addition the key points of difference between the block digrams are addressed for clear
  • 4.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2021 : 803 – 810 806 understanding towards the improved model in Table 1 [18]-[20]. Table 2 represents the break down details happens in the industries from the period of Apr 2016-Mar 2019 and the loction of the failure happens has been repesentedin the Figure 4. Figure 3. Block diagram of the proposed model Table 1. Comparison with existing and proposed model block diagram No. Block diagram – Existing Dlog diagram – Proposed 1. Number of coil joints are more – around 80 joints Number of coil joints are reduced to 22 joints which avoid failure rate of coil joints and water leak issues 2. No water level controller at DM water tank Water level controller at DM water tank introduced 3. No pressure sensor at filter water line Pressure sensor at filter water line to raise alarm to avoid break down 4. No temperature sensor at filter water line Temperature sensor at filter water line to raise alarm to avoid break down 5. Total coil is connected across the supply - more hear generation at metar parts Dummy coil is provided at top and bottom to avoid heating of metal parts and eath leak issues 6. No ground leak detector check methods Testing facilities created to check the ground leak detection 7. No alert alarm for cooling tower fan operation – will lead to high temperature issues Gemerate alarm for cooling tower fan off status – will eliminate cooling water high temperature issues 8. More PLC hardware failure Cooling fan with filters provided 9. No power tap position controller to control wastage of power Powe tap position controller to save energy. Table 2. Break down details from Apr 2016-Mar 2019 1 Holding furnace-1 01.08.2016 Holding furnace-1 coil water leak from bottom 5th turn Immediately furnace emptied. Spare holding furnace switched on and put into operation. 2 Holding furnace-2 03.08.2016 Holding furnace-2 water leak from inlet turn port Immediately furnace emptied. Brazing work carried out at coil inlet turn port and put into operation. 3 Holding furnace-2 03.10.2016 holder tilting cylinder oil leak due to piston rod gland seal worn out Spare tilting cylinder replaced. 4 Holding furnace-1 06.01.2018 Holding furnace-1 lifting up/down not working Holder up/down not working due to Proportional card base terminal cut Spare proportional card with base replaced. 5 Holding furnace-1 19.03.2019 Holding furnace-1 water leak at bottom coil Water leak noticed at bottom coil 7 th turn brazed area got crack. Same was brazed with copper supports and strengthened. 6 Holding furnace-2 27.03.2019 Holding furnace-2 tilting movement problem Pressure relief valve spool got struck. Spare relief valve changed after that production continued.
  • 5. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Energy conservation at high power consuming holding furnace … (D. Karthikeyan) 807 Figure 4. Failure holder furnace panel. 2.2. Failure details The major drwabacks in the existing model are listed over here as follows as no power tap position controller to control wastage of power, Number of coil joints are more-around 80 joints, Total coil is connected across the supply-more hear generation at metal parts & No alert alarm for cooling tower fan operation-will lead to high temperature issues and at the last no ground leak detector check methods with more PLC hardware failures. 2.3. Coil related modifications To resolve the above mentioned problems step by step action taken has been incorporated in a the short time duration of gap improve the coil performance which are labelled as follows initially it has been Providing additional water cooling to the cooling jacket, Apr-Sep 2017 next to it replacing existing coil with better coil joint, Apr-Sep 2017 & increasing the length of coil from 3 meters to 9 meters to reduce the number of coil joints, Apr-Sep 2017 with relocating the power feeding joint to avoid induction losses, Apr- Sep 2017 & Improving coil segment joints, Apr-Sep 2017. 2.4. Hydraulic system modifications & improvements at instrument panel Added with the coil design the hydraulic system modification and panel side development has been implemented in order to meet out the solution in the fullest way they are narrated as follows, firstly improving the cooling of hydraulic oil, Oct 17-March 18, Fixing replacement frequency of oil filter elements, Oct 17-March 18, incorporating oil level low sensor to alert and to reduce oil cost and the repair time, Oct 17-March 18 & giving additional angle supports to avoid cracks, Oct 17-March 18, incorporating suction damper control for various stage operation and furnace & providing cooling fan arrangement for instrument panel, Apr-Sep 2018, providing air circulation with necessary filter to avoid dust entry, Apr-Sep 2018 with proving water level sensor for primary water tank, Apr-Sep 2018 & incorporating necessary fuse protection for individual field outputs for protection and easy trouble shootings, Oct 18-March 19 [21]-[25]. Increasing the capacitor at panel to improve power factor of the feeder, Oct 18-March 19 added with SOP for fume extraction operation to save electrical energy, Oct 18-March 19 & displaying electrical schematic diagram for better understanding, Oct 18-March 19. Displaying the functional procedures of major systems like cooling, Hydraulic, power, Oct 18-March 19 with the identification of circuit components with description and circuit reference for easy trouble shooting, Apr-Sep 2018 & Developing fault annunciation at HMI for easy trouble shooting, Apr-Sep 2018 After all the modification has been done is a huge reduction in breakdown occurrences at holding furnacere which is shown in graph at Figure 5 and the improvement in holder energy consumption is indicted in the graph at Figure 6.
  • 6.  ISSN: 2088-8694 Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2021 : 803 – 810 808 Figure 5. Reduction in breakdown occurrences at holding furnacere Figure 6. Improvement in holder energy consumption 3. ENERGY SAVING CALCULATION TO ACHIVE IMPROVEMENT The evaluation of the improvement has been calculated as energy saving which has narrow down as following, firstly Total metal handled by this holding furnace for the year 2018-19, is 55000 Tons added with it the average energy consumption/ton of metal is 35.26 units & Energy saving/ton of metal compared to last year, 2 units secondly the total energy saved for the year 2018-19 (11 months), 55000x2=110000 units in terms of cost: 1, 10.000xRs, 7=7, 70.000/=for this year. Note: We have not considered the benefit of production by this improvement − Investment cost for the above improvements The following suggestions are identified as a part of improvement related to the financial aspect in the industry which are given as ,The major cost involved is in the coil joint modification & the original length of 3 meter with 80 Joint is replaced by 9 meter long and 22 joints, Secondly the cost incurred for the above coil modification is Rs, 12.0 Lakhs/coil thirdly the cost incurred for the other improvements is Rs, 3.0 Lakhs, at last the huge savings in the total investment is Rs, 15.0 Lakhs with the Payback period is 2 years Note: we have not considered the benefit of production by this improvement. 4. HARDWARE PHOTOS OF IMPROVEMENT Figure 7 -10 represents the true industrial pictures of improvement ideas implants with respect to coil design and its overall control aspects. The first figure 7 represents the changes made in the coil design i.e. the number of joint has been reduced added to it the figure 8 denotes its physical industrial representation in order to monitor the temperature level of the coil the temperature control set value has been fixed in the new design the whole design has been controlled automatically using scada control panel. Figure 7. Implemetaion of coil design in the industries Figure 8. overall view of improved coil design in the industries Figure 9. Coil temperature set value Figure 10. Control panel for coil temperature control
  • 7. Int J Pow Elec & Dri Syst ISSN: 2088-8694  Energy conservation at high power consuming holding furnace … (D. Karthikeyan) 809 5. CONCLUSION By implementing the identified improvements at holding furnace, we are saving around 1 Lakh electrical units/year apart from benefits of production advantages. The main reason for increase of electrical energy consumption/ton of liquid metal handling is the machine break downs due to electrical controls failures, hydraulic control failures, and water leak from induction coil joints, structural damages, and PLC hardware components failure. The identified improvements against the failures are to incorporate electrical controls to minimize energy losses, external water pressure and temperature sensors and by providing additional water cooling to the cooling jacket, & fixing water level sensor for primary water tank, and providing additional controls for detecting earth leakage. Modifying furnace coil design to avoid joint failures, by replacing existing coil with better coil joint, increasing the length of coil from 3 meters to 9 meters to reduce the number of coil joints, relocating the power feeding joint to avoid induction losses, and improving coil segment joints. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my co authors and my industrial friends, who had extended their valuable support to my research work. REFERENCES: [1] M. E. El-Hawary, Principle of electric machines with power electronic applications, 2nd Edition, June 2002. [2] Paul C. Krause, Oleg Wasynczuk and Scott D. Sudhoff, Analysis of electric machinery and drive systems, 2nd Edition. [3] Narayan S. Rau, Optimization principles practical applications to the operation of marketsof the electric power industry, 2003. [4] Vedam Subramanian, Power electronics, New Age International (P) Ltd 1996, Reprint at 2000. [5] P. C. Sen, Principle of electrical machines & power electronics, 2nd Edition, 2013. [6] M. L. Soni, and P.V., Gupta power system engineering, Edition 2001. [7] "IEEE Standard 141-1993: Recommended practice for power distributions to industrial plants," IEEE, 1994, DOI: 10.1109/IEEESTD.1994.121642. [8] "IEEE Standard 519-1992: Recommended practices and requirements for Harmonic control in electrical power systems," IEEE, 1993, DOI: 10.1109/IEEESTD.1993.114370. [9] B. H. Han, I. K. Chun, S. C. Lee, and S. Y. Lee, “Multichannel magnetic stimulation system design considering mutual couplings among the stimulation coils,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 812–817, May 2004. [10] V Thiyagarajan, Micro electro mechanical systems, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2013. [11] C. Ravichandran, Power electronics for renewable energy systems, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2013. [12] P. L. Somasundaram, Electrical machines, Anna University, India, 2016. [13] Tara Goldsworthy et al. HIsmelt—Ironmaking Technology in the Future[C]//China Iron and Steel Annual Meeting Proceedings. Beijing: Metallurgy industry press, 2003: 604–610. [14] Wu Xian, Zhang Jian. Distribution and Characteristic of China’s Titanium Resource [J]. Titanium Industry Progress, 2006, 23(6): 8– 12. [15] Chen, Weitong, Chunhua Liu, Christopher Lee, and Zhiqiang Shan, "Cost effectiveness comparison of coupler designs of wireless power transfer for electric vehicle dynamic charging," Energies, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 906, 2016, DOI: 10.3390/en9110906. [16] S. Cui, Z. Z. Liu, Y. J. Hou, H. Zeng, Z. K. Yue and L. H. Liang, "Study on efficiency of different topologies of magnetic coupled resonant wireless charging system," IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 012064, 2017, DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/93/1/012064. [17] Tianqing Li, Xiangzhou Wang, Shuhua Zheng, and Chunhua Liu, "An efficient topology for wireless power transfer over a wide range of loading conditions," Energies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 141, 2018, DOI: 10.3390/en11010141. [18] Paolo Batezzato, Wireless battery charging, White-Paper, ST, Technology Tour, 2017. [19] Du HeGui, et al. Principles of Smelting Vanadium-titanium Magnetite by Blast Furnace [M]. Beijing: Science Press, 1996. [20] M. Saravanan, and A. Ramesh Babu, "High power density multi-mosfet-based series resonant inverter for induction heating applications," International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS), vol. 7, no. 1, March 2016, pp. 107-113, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v7.i1.pp107-113. [21] M. N. Tandjaoui, C. Benachaiba, O. abdelkhalek, B. Denai, and Y. Mouloudi, "Characterisation and modelling of power electronics device," International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS), vol. 5, no. 2, October 2014, pp. 135-14, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v5i2.4318. [22] Hussain Attia, and Ali Sagafinia, "Novel discrete components based speed controller for induction motor," International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS), vol. 7, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 1075- 1084, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v7.i4.pp1075-1084.
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