Glossary of Terms used for a Blast Furnace
…runner directs liquid slag to slag granulation plant, or to slag pot, or to slag pit. Runner mass – It is the refractory material used for preparing of runner before…
Read MoreProcess Control of Technological Processes
…protocols provide the capability of transferring digital information and instructions among field devices, instruments, and control systems. The field-bus software mediates the flow of information among the components. Multiple digital…
Read MoreElements of Decision making
…others. The third type of situation is of the truly exceptional and truly unique event. The probability of such an event can be one in a million or one in…
Read MoreProperties of Refractories
…magnitude of the rupture stress, the resistance to deformation under bending stress, i.e. rupture strength is measured. Because of their heterogeneous coarse ceramic structure, refractory bricks are purely elastic within…
Read MoreEvolution of Blast Furnace Iron Making
…hearths by the ‘bloomery’ process. The size of these structures is not available in the archaeological investigations but a modern reconstruction of a bloomery furnace had internal dimensions of 300…
Read MoreOperation practices and Campaign Life of a Blast Furnace
…Also necessary instrumentations are to be fitted to comprehensively monitor the BF operation so that the burden distribution is changed and assessed in a controlled and technical manner. Instrumentation and…
Read MoreBlast Furnace Cast House and its Operation
…on each side of the taphole. Ideally the layout should be such that the runners are kept as short as possible. With tilting or swinging runners and high capacity hot…
Read MoreChains and their Types
…trucks. A leaf chain used on a lift truck is normally under a substantial static load from the trucks lifting carriage. In addition, the chain withstands the nominal working load…
Read MoreMethods of Shutting Down a Blast Furnace
an undefined tap hole diameter and sometimes in slowly running casts. These slowly running casts may also be retarded by a decreased hot metal temperature of the salamander, caused by…
Read MorePlant Layout
…cost of construction can be minimized by adopting a layout which gives the shortest run of connecting pipe between equipment and the least quantity of structural steel work. However, this…
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