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CEC Assignment 2

Presentation

18BT01046

Pit Furnace
Content

01 Introduction
05 Results

02
Theory
06
Conclusion
03
Equations
07
References
04 Methodology
What is the Objective?
It’s said that the furnace
comes from the Greek
To determine an appropriate dwell time and then characterize the word “fornax” which
temperature profile within a furnace capable of heating silicon to high means oven.
temperatures,
Theory

What implies?

Convection is governed by Newton's Law of Cooling

Radiation is governed by the Stefan-Boltzmann law

What about conduction?

Equations
Steady-state operation of the furnace at the end of the
tempering process is considered. It corresponds to a
turbulent flow occurring in a low-Mach number regime.
The Convection is governed by Newton's Law of Cooling,
where the heat flux from the surface, q, is equal to the
difference between the temperatures of the surface, Ts, and
gas, T∞, times the surface area, A, times h, the convective
heat transfer coefficient
Radiation is governed by the Stefan-Boltzmann law; the
resulting equation takes a similar form, where the heat flux
from the surface, q, is equal to the emissivity of the surface,
E, times the area, A, times the Stefan-Boltzmann constant,
σ, times the difference of the fourth powers of the
temperatures of the surface, Ts, and its surroundings, Tsurr
Methodology

How was the experiment conducted?

1. Determination of Dwell Time

2. Measurement of Temperature

3. Quenching Silicon Samples

4. Further Processing of Samples

5. Measurement of Carrier Lifetime

Result

What makes us positive we can trust the results?

The data

Following were the parameter that resulted after several

runs.

• 15 minutes
• 1.0 SCFM
•
Conclusion

What did we learn from the results?

There was a great deal of variance in the carrier lifetimes of

the samples that were produced in the furnace due to a
number of abnormalities that occurred during processing.

Possible sources of error included

• Other metastable defects;
• Surface carrier lifetimes;
• High sensitivity
References

What are the sources?

• Palacio-Caro, I., Alvarado-Torres, P., & Cardona-Sepúlveda, L. (2020). Numerical Simulation of the Flow and Heat Transfer in an Electric Steel

Tempering Furnace. Energies, 13(14).

• Hilpert, R. Wärmeabgabe von geheizten Drähten und Rohren im Luftstrom. Forsch. auf dem Geb. des Ing. 1933. [CrossRef]
• Incropera, F.P.; DeWitt, D.P.; Bergman, T.L.; Lavine, A.S. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 6th ed.; John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY,

USA, 2006; ISBN 978-0471457282.

• V. Modi (2010). Characterization of Temperature Profile in Furnace and Solubility of Iron in Silicon.
Thank you