Walking Hearth Furnace for Billets

Walking Hearth Furnaces are the best solution to re-heath the billets for challenging application where materials and temperature have to be carefully managed. The long experience of Tenova allowed a continuous improvement of the process and equipment, assure the maximum furnace flexibility to cope with the specific requirements of the Hot Rolling Mills.

This assures smooth operation and easy maintenance, high final product quality and enhanced sustainability.

A wide range of reliable solutions for the mechanical and for the combustion systems can be combined according to the customers’ requirement.

Combustion systems and burners are specifically designed for a wide variety of fuels, including those ones having a poor Net Heating Value (such as BFG, PG, MG). The use of those fuels optimizes the usage of available utilities and resources at customer’s plant, minimizing the operating costs and improving the overall sustainability.

The best heating performances are achieved combining specific solutions for billets/slab with the latest advancements in Walking Hearth Furnaces design: refractory hearth, process control and on-line mathematical model Level 2 automation as well as advanced burner technology.

In recent years, the proven reliability of Tenova Walking Hearth Furnaces is combined to a new generation of advanced features to shift the Furnace into a high technological production unit. The Digital Solutions, New algorithms and Innovative AI models for enhanced process control and proactive management of the assets assure an increased sustainability and profitability of the furnace system.