Conclusions
The world energy crisis must not cause limitations to the development of industrial production and in particular it must not decrease the rate of development of heat treatment but must stimulate rationalization of the energy consumption of heating operations.
Heat treatment, which is by nature an energy consuming operation, is simultaneously an energy saving one. This energy paradox is the result of the dissimilar requirement of energy in the production of steel and in its heat treatment, the reason for which is the fact that from the energy point of view heat treatment is several times more economical than the production and use of steel without heat treatment. As the result of this, to decrease the energy consumption of the economy of each country as a whole it is necessary to use heat treatment of metallic materials in industry on the widest possible scale.
There exist large possibilities for decreasing energy consumption in the heat-treatment industry. The simplest form of economy in energy in heat treatment of metals is a decrease in its consumption without additional capital expenditures by improvement in the organization of production. More complex and requiring a longer time is the use of new production operations and equipment. The combined use of these reserves must provide a decrease in energy consumption in heat treatment of at least more than 10%.
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Institute of Precision Mechanics, Polish Peoples Republic. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 3, pp. 17–24, March, 1985.
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Burakovski, T., Salya, A. Directions in rationalization of the use of energy in heat treatment of metals. Met Sci Heat Treat 27, 188–196 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00699650
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