With melting metal being your most energy intense process, and dosing accuracy vital to minimizing waste, focussing on your furnaces will help supercharge your first steps towards decarbonization. Read this to find out how we can help you ADAPT, IMPROVE and DIGITIZE to get you moving in the right direction.
1) ADAPT your melting furnace to new fuel
StrikoMelter is already one of the most efficient melting furnaces on the market, with the StrikoMelter PurEfficiency series demonstrating energy consumption as low as 489 kWh/t, and a metal yield close to 100% meaning you waste less raw material.
We will continue to look at technical developments that will enhance performance. But the kind of savings the industry is under pressure to achieve requires more. Less reliance on fossil fuel.
Conversion to biomass or electricity derived green gases is undoubtedly one possible future for melting furnaces. It will unlock carbon reduction potential that simply isn’t possible with furnaces powered by fossil fuels. Your StrikoMelter can be adapted to help you benefit from this future. If that appeals, ask us what’s possible for your specific furnace.
2) IMPROVE existing equipment and processes
Regular servicing, replacing aging parts, and updating to newer innovations will all help you get maximum efficiency from existing resources, which is sustainable best practice and vital for decarbonization efforts.
Our modernization packages for StrikoMelter and Westomat, for example, have helped many customers improve performance for energy savings of up to 15% or up to 26%, and even higher. Following a detailed inspection, our technicians highlight equipment upgrades you will benefit from and the specific % energy savings you will see if implemented.
It's also true that teams who know best practice charging, cleaning, and troubleshooting will make a significant difference to the overall efficiency of your melting and dosing. Process improvement through training should therefore never be overlooked in any foundry’s decarbonization journey.
3) DIGITIZE efficiency monitoring
We can’t talk about reducing energy and CO2 emissions without mentioning digitization. This is because it’s incredibly difficult to improve on performance levels if you don’t have all the facts and figures.
Cloud-based digital solutions, like Monitizer | DISCOVER for StrikoMelter, address this by giving you real time oversight of vital furnace KPIs and process requirements for melting and dosing respectively. Leveraging your equipment data to deliver valuable insights, platforms like these allow you to see if, where, and when any action is required to ensure optimal energy and production efficiencies are achieved.
These are just some of the ways we can help you on your decarbonization mission. For more information, contact us here.