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The gear wheel engineering and gear systems specialist IMS Gear operates one of the world's most modern hardening workshops at its site in Donaueschingen. Here, different components are subjected to heat treatments in hardening furnaces in order to optimise material properties. Previously, the waste heat generated in the hardening furnaces was released unused into the room air and was thus lost. In addition to the furnaces, the hardening workshop operates four cleaning systems for cleaning parts. These have to be heated electrically, which requires around 1,000 MWh of electricity per year.
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Schmidt, M., Spieth, H., Haubach, C., Kühne, C. (2019). High temperature waste heat recovery from hardening furnaces. In: 100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56745-6_56
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