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  2. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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    The tuyeres are used to implement a hot blast, which is used to increase the efficiency of the blast furnace. The hot blast is directed into the furnace through water-cooled copper nozzles called tuyeres near the base. The hot blast temperature can be from 900 to 1,300 °C (1,650 to 2,370 °F) depending on the stove design and condition.

  3. Hot blast - Wikipedia

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    Hot blast allowed the use of anthracite in iron smelting. It also allowed use of lower quality coal because less fuel meant proportionately less sulfur and ash. [11]At the time the process was invented, good coking coal was only available in sufficient quantities in Great Britain and western Germany, [12] so iron furnaces in the US were using charcoal.

  4. Water jacket furnace (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    Conventional blast furnaces used for smelting iron ore use a hot blast. Water jacket furnaces most commonly used a cold air blast, typically provided by a positive-displacement blower, such as a Roots blower. Preheating of the air blast was used on some water jacket furnaces, but preheating of the blast had no advantage when the furnace was ...

  5. Category:Blast furnaces - Wikipedia

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  6. Biomass heating system - Wikipedia

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    The amount of carbon stored in dry wood is approximately 50% by weight. [16] When from agricultural sources, plant matter used as a fuel can be replaced by planting for new growth. When the biomass is from forests, the time to recapture the carbon stored is generally longer, and the carbon storage capacity of the forest may be reduced overall ...

  7. James Beaumont Neilson - Wikipedia

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    James Beaumont Neilson (22 June 1792 – 18 January 1865) was a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron. Life [ edit ]

  8. Who needs football? This year's SEC in the conversation for ...

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    No other league has rated as highly as the 2024-25 SEC on Dec.16 of a given year, not even the 2010-11 Big East that sent a record 11 teams to the NCAA tournament or the 2017-18 Big 12 that very ...

  9. Madeley Wood Company - Wikipedia

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    After Joseph Reynolds decided to concentrate on his bank, the Madeley Wood Company works passed to the Anstice family, one of whom had managed it, and their business became another Madeley Wood Company. The name Bedlam Furnaces may have originated with a painting by John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) who painted the furnace in 1803 and titled it ...