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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
May. 25, 2018
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, Easton, PA (US);
Avishek Guha, Breinigsville, PA (US);
Anshu Gupta, Whitehall, PA (US);
Reed Jacob Hendershot, Orefield, PA (US);
Michael J. Gallagher, Coopersburg, PA (US);
Martin Lawrence, Middlesex, GB;
Petr Tlamicha, Dobrna, CZ;
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of controlling a metal melting process in a melting furnace, including determining at least one furnace parameter characterizing a melting furnace, adding a charge containing solid metal into the melting furnace, detecting at least one charge parameter characterizing the charge, firing a burner into the melting furnace to provide heat to melt the charge, and exhausting burner combustion products from the furnace, detecting at least one process parameter characterizing progress of melting the charge, calculating a furnace efficiency based on the at least one furnace parameter, calculating a predicted process pour readiness time based on the at least one charge parameter, the at least one process parameter, and the furnace efficiency, and controlling the metal melting process based on the predicted process pour readiness time.