A Review of Energy Consumption in Foundry Industry
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Energy is a multiplying factor which allows man to translate various raw material and resources
into useful items to meet the daily demands and necessities of human beings. Foundry
technology involved casting from molten metal transferred into a mould and permitted to
harden under varying conditions depending on the purpose. This paper reviews the foundry
industry as an energy exhaustive industry, in the sense that it requires energy in various forms
such as electrical, heat and mechanical to carry out various engineering processes to deliver the
appropriate casting required. It also reviews the different methods are currently being employed
to make the manufacturing process more efficient and each of them have led to an increase in
energy demand. It is affirmed that the new methods involved in foundry and their energy
management policy can led to more efficient energy consumption for casted product.
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery