October meeting -Presenters: Frank Smith & Matthew Smith – Rayteq, LLC
Written on October 12, 2011 by admin
Category: Meetings
This Month’s Meeting:
Presenters: Frank Smith & Matthew Smith – Rayteq, LLC
Since the early 1980s many metalcasters have come to appreciate the quality advantages of clean, quiet electric melting right at the molding line or permanent mold station, particularly wherever machined castings are involved. They’ve also learned that electric melting can greatly reduce air quality problems while improving the working environment by eliminating excessive heat stress and noise. As a result, many metalcasters installed electric melting to gain these advantages while reducing plant energy costs compared with fuel fired melting.
However, in the past decade many electric utilities have worked at cross purposes to the metalcasting industry by increasing electricity cost, particularly with respect to kW demand charges, making electric power less competitive with fuel fired melting. This led some metalcasters to return to fuel firing at the price of forfeiting their gains in casting quality, air cleanliness and improvements in the working environment.
But new technology has now arrived that reduces electric utility charges so electric melting once again makes economic sense. While this technology includes improved furnace design for better thermal efficiency and new, high power density electric heating elements, the main focus is on bringing down the aggregate kW demand of a group or fleet of electric melting furnaces with a novel interactive demand management system (IDMS) to interact with and synchronize each furnace’s power demand.
Rayteq’s unique interactive demand management system effectively holds total fleet kW demand to the minimum required to meet production melting needs without adversely impacting casting cell performance. Each IDMS-equipped furnace features unique hybrid digital/analog power controls that maintain two-way digital communication with the central IDMS while avoiding failure prone and waste-heat generating solid state SCRs or thyristors.
Location:
Francesco’s
8520 Pardee Dr.
Oakland, CA 94621
(510) 569-0653
Date: October 11th, 2011
Time:
4:00 – Board Meeting
4:45 – No Host Cocktails (Complimentary Pizza Bread)
5:15 – Dinner
6:00 – Presentation
Dinner Choices:
Walnut Crusted Chicken with Honey Mustard Sauce or
Broiled Salmon
$35 / Person
Please RSVP by Oct. 5 (with your dinner choice) to:
Zeydi.Gutierrez@abifoundry.com
Phone: (510)632-3467
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