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Item Challenges of digital industrial furnaces for energy efficiency using syngas from biomass(2018) González-González, Asier; Antolín-Urbaneja, Juan Carlos; Lopez-Guede, Jose Manuel; Tecnalia Research & InnovationIndustrial furnaces, as part of intensive industries, are facing new challenges to increase the efficiency, reliability and flexibility of their processes. They require a considerable amount of energy to accomplish heating and melting processes. Thus, multiple types of research have been focused on the optimisation of the energy consumption to address radical improvements in the competitiveness and energy, environmental, and cost performances at the system level. Furthermore, from a renewable energy perspective, a progressive substitution of natural gas by syngas from gasified biomass require an optimal monitoring and control system to regulate new burners as well as, an appropriate adaptation of existing ones. The use of syngas derived from biomass is not a widespread practice in industrial furnace scenarios. Therefore, this paper shows a brief review of creating a digital pre-heating industrial furnace, addressed from the perspective of monitoring and control system. Also, a precise analytical model divided into four primary sections is proposed: (i) burners system, (ii) isolation structure, (iii) energy recovery system, and (iv) load to be pre-heating. These models provide the foundation for a future hybrid models development to achieve higher efficiency levels using an accurate parametrisation of operational process variables, and a precise maintenance operation strategy. Finally, a broad discussion is exposed.Item Digital industrial furnaces: Challenges for energy efficiency under VULKANO project(2018) Antolín-Urbaneja, Juan Carlos; González-González, Asier; Lopez-Guede, Jose Manuel; López De Ipiña, Jesús; Tecnalia Research & InnovationUnder intensive industry, industrial furnaces must cope with new challenges to improve the efficiency, reliability and flexibility of their processes. As they need a great amount of energy to achieve the temperature required for heating and melting processes, many researchers have been focused on the minimization of the energy consumption. This energy optimization implies improvements, not only in the competitiveness, but also in environmental and cost performances of the process. This paper shows briefly the challenges for industrial furnaces under VULKANO project focused on the development of five approaches from the point of view of efficiency, flexibility, reliability and safety: improving refractories, investigating new recovery systems based on PCM, using alternative fuels, integrating advanced monitoring and control devices and, finally, developing a holistic tool to help the operator to make decisions. Besides, this paper describes the creation of a digital industrial furnace, regarding to digital twin term. Therefore, an analytical model comprising the burners system, the isolation structure, an energy recovery system, and the load to be heated is described. Each individual model provides the base for the development of future hybrid models, accurately parametrized through process variables, used to investigate the efficiency optimization and provide precise maintenance operation strategies.