Numerical Simulation of an Unsteady Thermal Process in Vacuum Induction Furnace for Metallurgical Grade Silicon Refining

Ming Li; Guo Qiang Lv; Wen Hui Ma; Hua Wang; Xi Yang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.444-445.981

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Numerical Simulation of an Unsteady Thermal Process in Vacuum Induction Furnace for Metallurgical Grade Silicon Refining

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The temperature and velocity distribution of melting pool fields is very important effect to the silicon purification in vacuum induction furnace. A numerical model for the electromagnetic-thermal hydrodynamic coupling field has been developed by using the finite element method (FEM) and a two-dimension numerical simulation for temperature of metallurgical-grade silicon melting in vacuum induction furnace was carried out by using a software Multi-physics Comsol 4.2 in this paper. The results showed that the temperature field was dependent on induction heating times and melting pool position and the maximum temperature grads was 400K in constant temperature stage. With the silicon was molted gradually two vortexes were come into being for electromagnetic stirring in the smelting poor.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 444-445)

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Ming Li, Guo Qiang Lv, Wen Hui Ma, Hua Wang, Xi Yang

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Induction Melting, Metallurgical-Grade Silicon, Multi-Fields Coupling, Numerical Simulation

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