Method for operating an anode furnace and control device

US9714791B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INNOVATHERM PROF. DR. LEISENBERG GMBH + CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Krieg · Weimar, DE
• Hans-Jörg Seifert · Stuttgart, DE
• Andreas Himmelreich · Golmsdorf, DE
• Frank Heinke · Weimar, DE
• Detlef Maiwald · Moers, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2012
• Grant date: Jul 25, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 11, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F27D21/04
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and to a control device 10 for operating an anode furnace including an extraction ramp arranged in a section of a heat-up zone and a burner ramp arranged in a section of a firing zone of the furnace unit, wherein operation of ramps is controlled by means of a control device of the furnace unit, wherein the ramps each have a read unit, wherein the section each have at least one stationary transponder unit, wherein the read units of the ramps communicate with the transponder units of the sections in which the ramps are arranged, wherein the respective transponder units are identified by means of the control device, and wherein a respective position of the ramps is determined by allocating the ramps to the respective transponder units.