Reheating Furnaces - Steel Webinar

3 February 2026 • Zoom • 10 a.m. to Noon AEST

Reheating Furnaces are one of the largest energy consumers in the steelmaking and forming industry and deserve special attention.

Content

1. Fundamentals of heating a solid body, heat transfer (convection, radiation), use of Biot and Fourier number.

2. Open fired furnaces, temperature and energy, furnace zones, temperature distribution in stock, combustion, fuels (gas, hydrogen), scaling, energy balance.

3. Fundamentals of induction heating.

4. Applications of induction furnaces in heating and hardening-tempering.

5. Hybrid heating solutions (open fired + induction).

About the Instructor

Dr Johann Rinnhofer is the CEO of thyssenkrupp nucera Australia, is based in Perth.

Dr Rinnhofer has 30 years of experience as a CEO in the plant engineering business for the mining & metallurgical industry, including fuel and induction heated industrial furnaces, hydrogen, and power plant technologies.

Johann serves as an honorary professor at the University of Leoben in Austria, where he lectures Industrial Furnace Technology.