ZHU Qingxia ¹, HU Guolin ¹, TANG Qi ², CHEN Gongbei ¹, JIANG Fangle ¹

(1.Department of Thermal Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, 333001; 2.Oceano Ceramics Co,Ltd,Foshan, 528234)

Abstract: The fuel consumption of kiln for ceramic shares a very high rate in the general cost of production, so how to reduce the fuel consumption means great significance to the reduction of the cost of products. The method of computer numerical value simulation was used in this paper, with the experiment object of liquefied petroleum gas shuttle kiln, to have created the software in simulating the shuttle kiln synthetically. The software can get the transient temperature distributing and thetemperature field, calculate the heat storage and heat dissipation and simulate the fuel consumption. This paper selects the best structure of shuttle kiln with the software, and draws a conclusion that the structure brick-cotton-brick" is a reasonable solution. The software is also used to study the effect on the shuttle kiln of many factors like different kiln materials, different firing time, etc. So many instructional opinions were considered in designing the shuttle kiln and producing. Furthermore, the reasonable forecast of fuei consumption distribution at different stages with the temperature rising in the kiln was made by simulating calculation, so reasonable reference was provided for the temperature control in the shuttle kiln.

Keywords: shuttle kiln, fuel consumption, computer-simulated, numerical method