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Isidore JACUBOWIEZ: Engineer from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers - Energy and environmental consulting engineer for the Elf Aquitaine group and the Association Technique Énergie Environnement (ATEE)
INTRODUCTION
An oven is a tool used to raise the temperature of a product. It can be either :
equipment intended solely for heating (e.g. reheating steel before plastic deformation, reheating crude oil before distillation);
a real reactor in which products are processed (e.g. glass melting furnace, petrochemical steam cracking furnace).
It is generally integrated into a complex production line, of which it is one of the components.
Furnaces are found in a wide range of industrial activities, making a global approach rather tricky.
This article deals with furnaces in general, and attempts to identify characteristics common to all furnaces. It introduces a series of articles, each dealing with furnaces specific to a particular industry:
steel industry furnaces ;
metal heat treatment furnaces ;
refining and chemical industry furnaces;
cement kilns ;
glass industry furnaces ;
kilns for the ceramics and refractory industries.
These texts cover the specific aspects of each type of furnace.
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