Extensive analyses of technological developments and technology foresight studies have
been vital to help prepare possible scientific scenarios for the future. The primary purpose of …

This study presents a detailed physics-based model focusing on an industrial tunnel kiln
under feedback control. Initially, an empirical sintering model is integrated into the kiln …

Time-dependent measurements are essential to describe the temperature and heat transfer
coefficient development lead to understanding the unsteady nature of tunnel kiln behavior …

One of the most important priorities in brick industry is to reduce energy consumption.
Therefore, the present work aims to enhance the average Nusselt number that provides an …

The energy consumption in bricks and ceramics industry is of great importance. Therefore,
the present work introduces an augmentation technique to improve the thermal performance …

In the present paper, the recovered air mass flow from the cooling zone to the firing zone
was optimized in order to reduce the natural gas consumption during the manufacturing of …

Kiln is a prime need in the ceramics industry, where energy loss is a major part which
consumes about 60% production cost through thermal energy for different applications …

This research focuses on developing an adaptive fuzzy-neural control system to manage
and maintain temperature in brick tunnel kilns. The problem is how to optimize performance …

The ceramic firing process constitutes a highly energy-intensive production step that
significantly affects the quality and final properties of the ceramic product. This work presents …

This paper reports the effect of setting density on flow uniformity, pressure drop, pumping
power, and convective heat transfer coefficients (CHTCs). High-density setting (HDS) …