Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Aluminum recycling is one of the most energy-efficient industrial processes. This work provides design and numerical simulation of zero-CO 2 aluminium remelting furnace, supporting circular economy goals and pollution reduction. The furnace to designed is a lab-scale hydrogen-fired crucible furnace for melting post-consumed aluminium cans of 1 kg batch. Thermal energy demand of a hydrogen fired crucible furnace was set to 1 MJ/kg, and the combustion system is sized for stoichiometric H 2 -air combustion, yielding a required H 2 flow of 8.3 g/h. CFD simulations was carried using Fluent, non-premixed combustion model to predict a maximum temperature of 2150 K and a flame length of ~20 cm. The flame was fully contained within a 50 cm length in the furnace.
Source: E3S Web of Conferences
Institutions: University of Gafsa, University of Monastir
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7135171663