RE:Induration Furnace fun facts sorry but ...check your math
Bunker trades today at 700 per tonne so 2.33 per us gallon 61.9 cents a liter so presuming the rest is correct the bunker cost is $ 118192 per day not $288,000
but lets look at plasma math
Im going to presume your 15 million BTU is correct and lets compare electrical
15000000 btu works out to 4400 kwh , Plasma effeciency would be 50 to 75% but we will use 75%
That brings it up to 5867 kwh x 20 torches x 24 equates to 2816160 KWH . Brazil industrial electrical rate was .159 usd per kwh March 22 but climbing at over 25 % a year.
Without inflation PLASMA IS $ 447,769.44 a day in electrical based on your 15 million BTU 20 burner 24 hours ,.Then you have massive infrastructure costs. This extremely higher costs line up with the cenent thesis
Say Natural Gas at $10 per million BTU which is 30 % over today I come up with $72000 a day in gas for the 20 burners at 15 million
Im sure there is effiency drops etc but still way cheaper both in operation and infrastructure costs .
Please provide alternative numbers as this was rough and before my morning coffee
Winston123 wrote: The typical furnace has anywhere between 25-40 fuel burners. Each burner is pumping out a whooping 15,000,000 btu/hr. Divide that by 140,000 btu and u get 107 gallons per hr. Times that by 4 and you get , let's say 400L to be nice. So that's 400L per burner per hr. Now times say 20 burners(small furnace). Ok so 8000L per hr for the induration furnace. But wait. It runs 24 hrs a day. Oh my. 8000x24=192000L per day. Those dual tanker trucks you see at your favourite gas station are 50000L trucks. So thats a grand total of 4 dual tanker trucks per day in one small induration furnace. Wowzers. Now 192000L x $1.50 = $288,000 per day. It shouldn't be a surprise that these companies want to switch out heat sources. They have a dirty little secret. Once the masses find out they be begging for plasma torches.