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... Reactions in Blast Furnaces SECTION IV . Quantities of Caloric absorbed and given off in Blast Furnaces . SECTION V. The Economical Working of the Furnaces varies with the ratio of CO2 in the Gases со SECTION VI . The ratio is the ...
... Reactions in Blast Furnaces SECTION IV . Quantities of Caloric absorbed and given off in Blast Furnaces . SECTION V. The Economical Working of the Furnaces varies with the ratio of CO2 in the Gases со SECTION VI . The ratio is the ...
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... reactions which come into play in these enormous apparatus . I shall , for this purpose , make use of the series of highly interesting memoirs which Mr. Lowthian Bell has published in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute , * and ...
... reactions which come into play in these enormous apparatus . I shall , for this purpose , make use of the series of highly interesting memoirs which Mr. Lowthian Bell has published in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute , * and ...
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... reaction has taken place in England , at all events in those districts in which the fuel and the ores are liable to crush and compress under their own weight . Thus at Askam - in - Furness , the height has been reduced from 75 feet to ...
... reaction has taken place in England , at all events in those districts in which the fuel and the ores are liable to crush and compress under their own weight . Thus at Askam - in - Furness , the height has been reduced from 75 feet to ...
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... reactions upon . which the working of the blast furnace is based . § 3. Principal reactions in blast furnaces . - In every furnace of this type , there are two contrary currents in motion , and reacting the one upon the other — a ...
... reactions upon . which the working of the blast furnace is based . § 3. Principal reactions in blast furnaces . - In every furnace of this type , there are two contrary currents in motion , and reacting the one upon the other — a ...
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... reaction . In other positions , the CO2 thus produced becomes again , partially at least , CO by burning solid carbon , which comes in the end , both in its chemical and calorific relations , to be the same thing as if the solid carbon ...
... reaction . In other positions , the CO2 thus produced becomes again , partially at least , CO by burning solid carbon , which comes in the end , both in its chemical and calorific relations , to be the same thing as if the solid carbon ...
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acid analysis Bell's blast furnace calcined calculate caloric absorbed caloric carried caloric developed Caloric due caloric of combustion caloric produced cals carbon burned carbonic oxide charges chemical Cleveland CO² coke consumed composition Consett cubic feet capacity decomposition determine difference dissociation dry air Ebelmen economy elements Engineer escaping gases experiments flux formulas furnaces of Cleveland fusion of slags given gives Gruner hence hot blast Illustrated increase Iron and Steel iron yielded large furnace less lime limestone metallic iron Metallurgy nitrogen oxide of iron oxygen peroxide pig yielded pig-iron Pouzin Practical proportion pyrometer quantities of caloric ratio reaction Schinz sensible heat silicium slags small furnace solid carbon specific heat Steel Institute superheated superheated blast Tables takes place temperature of blast tion tons Total carbon transformed Treatise tube tunnel-head twyres upper regions volume weight of blast Weight of dry Weight of moist zone of reduction
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