Analysis of different scenarios of car paint oven redesign to achieve desired indoor air temperature

Abstract

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. Car paint ovens consume a lot of energy within the automobile factory. For this reason, proper selection or design of this unit can yield substantial reduction in costs. In addition, car paint ovens that operate in existing factories quite often cannot assure adequate indoor air temperature and they need to be redesigned. In such an instance, simulating the oven operation is very important as it allows optimal selection of parameters that need to be changed in order that paint oven meets the requirements. In this paper, mathematical model for simulation of energy flows in car paint oven is presented. The model can be used to easily analyze which variables and to what extent affect the operating parameters (such as air temperature or car body temperature) of car paint oven, that could help designers to select optimal scenario for designing new or redesigning existing car paint ovens in order to achieve desired indoor air temperature.