Pt. II-The Use of Oxygen in the Ferrous and Non-ferrous Metallurgical Industries

JSGT 1949 V33 T176-T187

The present paper deals with the use of oxygen as an oxidising agent in metallurgical high temperature furnaces, with special reference to reactions in the bath of the open-hearth steel furnace the purification of copper in a reverberatory furnace, the production of alloy steels in the electric furnace the operation of converters both in the steel industry and in the conversion of copper matte to blister copper, the production of pig iron in the blast furnace and of ferro-chrome in the electric low-shaft smelting furnace.

D. J. O. Brandt