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Additional field(s): Engineering (general) | | English term or phrase: blast furnace | Definition from Steelstrip Metallurgical Terms :
A tall cylindrical refractory lined furnace for the production of pig iron or hot metal for direct conversion into steel.
Example sentence(s): - The coke descends to the bottom of the furnace to the level where the preheated air or hot blast enters the blast furnace. HOW A BLAST FURNACE WORKS
- Impurities in the iron from the Blast Furnace include carbon, sulphur, phosphorus and silicon. These have to be removed. IRON AND STEEL
- The production of iron in a Blast Furnace is a continuous process. The furnace is heated constantly and is re-charged with raw materials from the top while it is being tapped from the bottom. Corus - The chemistry of steelmaking
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| Hochofen | Definition:
Hochofen, metallurgischer Schmelzofen zur kontinuierlichen Gewinnung von Roheisen aus oxidischen Eisenerzen, Kiesabbrand oder Schrott. |
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Definition from Oscar Brandstetter Verlag:
Ein Hochofen ist eine zumeist großtechnische Anlage in Schachtofenbauweise, in der Eisen durch Reduktion von Eisenoxid gewonnen wird.
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This basic term can be found in any decent English-German technical dictionary. The Brandstetter publication cited is Ernst, Wörterbuch der industriellen Technik. | intertec
Belgium
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