Blast furnace Process engineering and chemistry A blast furnace is a metallurgical furnace used to smelt and produce industrial metals, usually pig iron but also other metals such as lead or copper. Blast is the provision of combustion air above atmospheric pressure. [1]In a blast furnace, fuel (cok
READ MOREIn metallurgy, a ladle is a barrel or vessel used for transporting and pouring molten metal. Ladles are commonly used in foundries and range in size from small hand-held containers similar to kitchen ladles, which can hold 20 kg (44 lbs), to large steel mill ladles, which can hold up to 300 tons (29
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