{"id":1729,"date":"2018-10-10T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:18:46","slug":"conversion-from-low-to-medium-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/conversion-from-low-to-medium-frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion from low to medium frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversion from low to medium frequency can be advisable for commercial reasons and reasons of energy policy. Some of the advantages of medium-frequency systems are listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a0starter blocks and laborious starting procedures are not required<\/li><li>no laborious scrap drying or dry storage required<\/li><li>increased electrical efficiency through charge operation<\/li><li>melting with higher output and shorter melting times<\/li><li>improvement of thermal efficiency due to the smaller furnace size<\/li><li>\u00a0lowest possible energy consumption with optimum flexibility<\/li><li>saving of maintenance and repair cost<\/li><li>increased operating safety<\/li><li>reduction of the fireproofing costs for the same throughput<\/li><li>increase in overall economy<\/li><li>old energy consumption with 13-t furnace with mains frequency, 750 kWh\/t (2,800 kW)<\/li><li>new energy consumption with the same furnace, 640 kWh\/t (4,800 kW \u2013 250 Hz)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversion from low to medium frequency can be advisable for commercial reasons and reasons of energy policy. Some of the advantages of medium-frequency systems are listed below: \u00a0starter blocks and laborious starting procedures are not required no laborious scrap drying or dry storage required increased electrical efficiency through charge operation melting with higher output and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/conversion-from-low-to-medium-frequency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conversion from low to medium frequency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"adresse":"","telefon":"","e-mail":"","webseite":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}