Combustion control method for regenerative-combustion heat treat furnace

摘要

[Object] In a regenerative-combustion heat treat furnace which is provided with plural pairs of regenerative burners and an exhaust portion for discharging a part of the combustion exhaust gas in the heat treat furnace to the outside of the heat treat furnace, the combustion and the combustion stop of each pair of regenerative burners are properly controlled according to a combustion load in the heat treat furnace and the drop of utilization rate of heat in the heat treat furnace is suppressed. [Solution] In a regenerative-combustion heat treat furnace 10 provided with plural pairs of regenerative burners 20 and an exhaust portion 13 for discharging a part of the combustion exhaust gas in the heat treat furnace 10 to the outside of the heat treat furnace, the plural pairs of regenerative burners are controlled by switching the paired regenerative burners between the combustion and the combustion stop according to a combustion load in the heat treat furnace. In this control, stop time is defined to be the longest at a regenerative burner pair adjacent to the exhaust portion and progressively decreased therefrom.