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  2. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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    Blast furnaces are currently rarely used in copper smelting, but modern lead smelting blast furnaces are much shorter than iron blast furnaces and are rectangular in shape. [76] Modern lead blast furnaces are constructed using water-cooled steel or copper jackets for the walls, and have no refractory linings in the side walls. [77]

  3. List of preserved historic blast furnaces - Wikipedia

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    Blast Furnace in Govăjdia built between 1806 and 1810 on the site of an old iron working workshop called "Old Limpert", the furnace's capacity is 43,9 cubic meters and it operated with charcoal brought from Vadu Dobrii and the iron ore mined and brought from the iron ore mines at Ghelari via narrow-gauge railway. It was decommissioned in 1924 ...

  4. Valley Furnace - Wikipedia

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    The furnace was constructed circa 1847 by George W. Bryan, who named the furnace "fanny" for his wife. . Unlike earlier bloomery furnaces that produced wrought iron, the Valley Furnace was a blast furnace that produced pig iron using a bellows to induce a forced draft, using charcoal as a fuel. Ore was provided from surface mines that exploited ...

  5. Isabella Furnace (Carnegie Steel) - Wikipedia

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    Isabella Furnace was a collection of blast furnaces built in 1872 in Etna, Pennsylvania, across the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh. [1]The furnaces were built by Pittsburgh-area manufacturers (Lewis Dalzell & Co; J. Painter & Sons; Graff, Bennet & Co; Spang, Chalfant & Co; Henry Oliver of Oliver Brothers & Phillips; William Smith) who were dependent on pig iron. [2]

  6. Direct reduction (blast furnace) - Wikipedia

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    Direct reduction is the fraction of iron oxide reduction that occurs in a blast furnace due to the presence of coke carbon, while the remainder - indirect reduction - consists mainly of carbon monoxide from coke combustion. It should also be noted that many non-ferrous oxides are reduced by this type of reaction in a blast furnace.

  7. Inland Steel Company - Wikipedia

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    The company's fifth open hearth furnace had just been completed, and the daily production capacity of open hearth steel was 500 tons. [38] The "Madeline" blast furnace, with a rated capacity of 350 tons/day, was blown in on August 31, 1907. [39] A blast furnace heats iron ore, limestone, and coke to a temperature of at least 3000 degrees ...

  8. Blast from the past: Fragment of Revolution-era cannon ...

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    When construction on a house near the site began in the 1950s, “they found a lot of artifacts from the iron furnace,” Stout said, “including a cannon fragment.

  9. Hashino iron mining and smelting site - Wikipedia

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    Hashino iron mining and smelting site (橋野高炉跡, Hashino kōro ato) is the ruins of an iron smelting and primitive blast furnace built by the Tokugawa shogunate during the final years of the Edo period in the Hashino neighborhood of the city of Kamaishi, Iwate in the Tohoku region of northern Japan.