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  • Thumbnail for Blast furnace
    A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or...
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    along with Victor Paz Estenssoro's government in Bolivia, launched Operation Blast Furnace, whose mission was to eradicate Bolivia's illegal coca producing...
    12 KB (1,263 words) - 17:19, 16 September 2024
  • of preserved historic blast furnaces contains decommissioned blast furnaces, of which substantial remains survive. The furnaces are preserved in a park...
    45 KB (611 words) - 12:11, 7 October 2024
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    blast furnace may have been cast directly into molds. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD), most, if not all, iron smelted in the blast furnace was...
    9 KB (1,357 words) - 10:23, 16 April 2024
  • forces in nine Latin American countries. Operation Snowcap followed Operation Blast Furnace, a four month operation that started in July 1986, which deployed...
    14 KB (1,373 words) - 11:01, 15 September 2024
  • 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...
    8 KB (817 words) - 13:14, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electric arc furnace
    An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of...
    35 KB (4,863 words) - 22:05, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sloss Furnaces
    Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882...
    12 KB (1,280 words) - 00:30, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lithgow Blast Furnace
    The Lithgow Blast Furnace is a heritage-listed former blast furnace and now park and visitor attraction at Inch Street, Lithgow, City of Lithgow, New...
    28 KB (3,659 words) - 10:08, 1 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
    whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace. The significant restored structures include the furnace group (blast furnace...
    12 KB (1,411 words) - 23:24, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Port Talbot Steelworks
    Talbot, Wales. Over 4,000 people worked at the plant until the last blast furnace shut down on 1st October 2024. Around 2,000 employees remain after this...
    19 KB (2,033 words) - 11:27, 2 October 2024
  • other pollutants. Induction furnaces do not require an arc, as in an electric arc furnace, or combustion, as in a blast furnace. As a result, the temperature...
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  • Thumbnail for Open-hearth furnace
    An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of...
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    Bloomery (category Industrial furnaces)
    iron, is usually consolidated and further forged into wrought iron. Blast furnaces, which produce pig iron, have largely superseded bloomeries. A bloomery...
    25 KB (3,204 words) - 04:38, 7 October 2024
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    Direct reduction (category Blast furnaces)
    beginning of the 20th century, this process was abandoned in favor of the blast furnace, which produces iron in two stages (reduction-melting to produce cast...
    64 KB (6,577 words) - 18:41, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reverberatory furnace
    among other variables. The reverberatory furnace can be contrasted on the one hand with the blast furnace, in which fuel and material are mixed in a...
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  • Thumbnail for Coking factory
    coking plants in operation (as of 2010) to meet the needs of its domestic industry. Coke is mainly used to produce cast iron in blast furnaces, which remains...
    21 KB (2,301 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steelmaking
    which has liquid pig-iron from the blast furnace and scrap steel as the main feed materials, and electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking, which uses scrap...
    35 KB (4,142 words) - 02:08, 1 October 2024
  • the upper reaches of the Hindmarsh River Valley, South Australia. Its blast furnace operated intermittently, over the period from 16 July to 5 December...
    21 KB (2,676 words) - 23:05, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cornwall Iron Furnace
    charcoal-burning iron blast furnace in its original plantation in the western hemisphere. Established by Peter Grubb in 1742, Cornwall Furnace was operated during...
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