An Approach to Optimization Temperature Uniformity in A Mini-Oven via Numerical Simulations

Measurement of water content by the gravimetric method is the most valid at this time. Nevertheless, the energy consumption of the oven is very high. This is caused by its use which only uses one until three samples in one measurement. Therefore an oven which is more suitable for this need is called a mini-oven. The mini oven will be equipped with a mechanism to measure the weight of the sample during heating. Which one of barrier in designing the oven is to uniformity the temperature of the oven chamber. So that, the purpose of this study is to optimize the uniform temperature of the mini-oven via computational fluid dynamic (CFD) approach. In this work, engineering drawings from mini-oven ware represented as a scenario and provided simulation data. The strategy consisted of 3-D CFD simulations at different temperatures and geometrical variants of the internal baffle plate. Results proved that the baffle plate geometry has not exerted significant an important temperature influence in the reduction of the non-uniformity for temperature.