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  2. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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    Blast furnaces used in the ISP have a more intense operation than standard lead blast furnaces, with higher air blast rates per m 2 of hearth area and a higher coke consumption. [79] Zinc production with the ISP is more expensive than with electrolytic zinc plants, so several smelters operating this technology have closed in recent years. [80]

  3. Coke (fuel) - Wikipedia

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    These were the invention of the hot blast in iron-smelting and the introduction of the beehive coke oven. The use of a blast of hot air, instead of cold air, in the smelting furnace was first introduced by Neilson in Scotland in 1828. [9] The hearth process of making coke from coal is a very lengthy process. [citation needed]

  4. Basic oxygen steelmaking - Wikipedia

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    Molten pig iron (sometimes referred to as "hot metal") from a blast furnace is poured into a large refractory-lined container called a ladle. The metal in the ladle is sent directly for basic oxygen steelmaking or to a pretreatment stage where sulfur, silicon, and phosphorus are removed before charging the hot metal into the converter.

  5. Steelmaking - Wikipedia

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    The hot blast pumps hot air into the blast furnace. The hot blast temperature ranges from 900 to 1,300 °C (1,650 to 2,370 °F) depending on the design and condition. Oil, tar , natural gas, powdered coal and oxygen can be injected to combine with the coke to release additional energy and increase the percentage of reducing gases present ...

  6. Open-hearth furnace - Wikipedia

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    As of 2024, the largest steel mill in the world that still produces steel using open-hearth furnaces is the Zaporizhstal steel mill in central Ukraine, which has seven 500-ton capacity OHFs and one twin-hearth furnace as well as four blast furnaces. The availability of cheap fuel oil in large quantities, as well as the ongoing invasion, largely ...

  7. Metallurgical furnace - Wikipedia

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    A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurgy ; processing metals with heat is even its own engineering specialty known as pyrometallurgy .

  8. What is SunCoke Energy and why does it want to buy ... - AOL

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    News broke Wednesday that United States Steel plans to sell its two blast furnaces at Granite City Works to SunCoke Energy, Inc. If the sale goes through, it could cost the region approximately ...

  9. Smelting - Wikipedia

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    This used a blast furnace to make pig iron, which then had to undergo a further process to make forgeable bar iron. Processes for the second stage include fining in a finery forge. In the 13th century during the High Middle Ages the blast furnace was introduced by China who had been using it since as early as 200 b.c during the Qin dynasty.