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  • Thumbnail for Basic oxygen steelmaking
    oxygen converter process, is a method of primary steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten pig iron is made into steel. Blowing oxygen through molten pig iron...
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    requiring only the coke needed initially to melt the pig iron. The earliest Bessemer converters produced steel for £7 a long ton, although it initially...
    35 KB (4,333 words) - 18:25, 29 April 2024
  • form is batch treatment of pig iron to produce steel by the Bessemer process. The vessel used was called the Bessemer converter. Modern steel mills use basic...
    3 KB (285 words) - 02:25, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gilchrist–Thomas process
    Thomas process is a historical process for refining pig iron, derived from the Bessemer converter. It is named after its inventors who patented it in...
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  • Thumbnail for Metallurgical furnace
    are also often called converters: Steelmaking converters The basic oxygen furnace The Bessemer converter The Manhès–David converter for refining copper...
    7 KB (839 words) - 01:08, 19 February 2024
  • Pigs. Storey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60342-036-5. "Hays Converter". Oklahoma State University Dept. of Animal Science. "The Beef Site-Hays Converter"...
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  • Thumbnail for Steelmaking
    of blast furnace called a cyclone converter furnace, which makes it possible to skip the process of manufacturing pig iron pellets that is necessary for...
    35 KB (4,144 words) - 05:43, 6 May 2024
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    process) was an improvement to the Bessemer process, made by lining the converter with a basic material to remove phosphorus. Another 19th-century steelmaking...
    64 KB (7,116 words) - 11:17, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low-background steel
    in the Bessemer process, where air was forced into Bessemer converters converting the pig iron into steel. By the mid-20th century, many steelworks had...
    6 KB (586 words) - 08:14, 14 May 2024
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    the 1850s, pig iron might be partly decarburised to produce mild steel using one of the following: The Bessemer process in a Bessemer converter, improved...
    14 KB (1,468 words) - 04:38, 6 October 2023
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    recovery turbine (TRT)), which can generate electrical energy up to 35 kWh/t of pig iron without burning any fuel. Dry type TRTs can generate more power than...
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  • Thumbnail for Ferrous metallurgy
    level, the air draft was cut off: a typical Bessemer converter could convert a 25-ton batch of pig iron to steel in half an hour. In the 1860s development...
    69 KB (8,584 words) - 21:18, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Puddling (metallurgy)
    converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace. It was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred...
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  • processed almost directly into liquid iron (pig iron). The process combines two process units, the Cyclone Converter Furnace (CCF) for ore melting and pre-reduction...
    19 KB (1,952 words) - 23:05, 3 March 2024
  • additional processing—by taking pig iron as an ingredient into a reverberatory furnace (and in later years, a Bessemer converter). Anthracite, also known as...
    22 KB (3,003 words) - 08:59, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Open-hearth furnace
    industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel. Because steel is difficult to manufacture owing to...
    12 KB (1,588 words) - 09:56, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Bessemer
    military ordnance, and developed his system for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities. This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper...
    20 KB (2,395 words) - 23:37, 29 May 2024
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    black nose, ears and feet); or, less commonly, solid black.: 304  Hays Converter Canadienne cattle Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canadian Speckle...
    5 KB (502 words) - 04:59, 10 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wrought iron
    directly from ore, cast iron or pig iron were the starting materials used in the finery forge and puddling furnace. Pig iron and cast iron have higher...
    52 KB (6,410 words) - 06:50, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saab 9000
    the Saab 900. Maximum power is 175 hp DIN (129 kW) without a catalytic converter. Drag resistance for the original model is Cd 0.34, very competitive for...
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