Energy Consumption Discussions of Porcelain Produce with Operating Conditions in a Simplified Model

Abstract

Porcelain produce is a very high energy consumption process. According to total energy balance analysis, a variety of operating conditions are analyzed for effect of net energy consumption. One real porcelain plate produce process is introduced as the reference case. Operating conditions are defined in three parameters, which are air excess number, fuel distribution and solid mass ratio. A simplified model based on finite difference method (FDM) is solved to calculate axial gas and solid temperature profiles and net energy consumption. The net energy consumption in porcelain produce is calculated and discussed in quantity with three operating conditions above separately. Finally, it is concluded that net energy consumption is higher with bigger air excess number and solid mass ratio, while fuel distribution will have no influence on net energy consumption.