MacRae Technologies, inc.
We are a consulting company providing engineering services to industrial
clients. Our focus is industrial structures and metallurgical furnaces,
including furnace shells, cooling elements and refractories.
We combine decades of practical experience with 3D solid and frame
modeling software, as well as FEA and CFD, to achieve rapid and accurate
solutions.
Engineering Consultants for Pyrometallurgical Vessels
About Us
MacRae Technologies Inc. supplies engineering services for the design
and analysis of industrial structures, metallurgical furnaces, and equipment
for high temperature service.
We work with clients to determine their requirements and assist in the design
or selection of appropriate solutions.
Founded in 2002, MacRae Technologies, Inc. has assisted numerous
ferrous and nonferrous clients both within North American and worldwide.
MacRae Technologies, Inc. combines many years of detailed design,
technical field assistance, shop inspection, 3D modeling and analysis
software to achieve proven solutions.
TECHNOLOGY
Patents / Patents Pending
- Patent inventor for copper alloy material for cast-in-pipe technology for copper castings.
- Hearth compression of refractory for cylindrical and curved furnaces. Splitting of the shell is not required.
- Eddy reduction in tuyeres and cooling blocks with cored water passages.
- Staves for iron making blast furnaces.
- Elimination of compensators on blast furnace staves.
Novel designs
- Blast furnace tuyeres and staves
- Furnace wall and roof panels
- Runners and launders
- Roof sealing with cooling blocks
- Roof lift frame
- Hot face patterns for cooling blocks, to maximize retention of refractory and accretions
- Tap hole modifications to accommodate differential movement between brick, shell and coolers
Contact
Principal: Allan MacRae, PhD, PE, PEng
MacRae Technologies, Inc.
1000 Silver Maple Lane, Hayward, CA, USA 94544-6681
+1-510-470-3682 (office)
+1-510-886-0883 (fax)
info@macraetechinc.com