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    Iron is produced through a two step process involving a blast furnace and further processing. In a blast furnace, iron ore is mixed with charcoal or coke and heated to a high temperature to produce iron, while the waste rock forms slag. Over time, blast furnaces have increased in size and switched from using charcoal to coke. To obtain high quality iron and steel, the blast furnace iron is further heated and exposed to air or oxygen in converters like the Bessemer or Siemens-Martin furnace.

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    Iron is produced through a two step process involving a blast furnace and further processing. In a blast furnace, iron ore is mixed with charcoal or coke and heated to a high temperature to produce iron, while the waste rock forms slag. Over time, blast furnaces have increased in size and switched from using charcoal to coke. To obtain high quality iron and steel, the blast furnace iron is further heated and exposed to air or oxygen in converters like the Bessemer or Siemens-Martin furnace.

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    Iron is produced through a two step process involving a blast furnace and further processing. In a blast furnace, iron ore is mixed with charcoal or coke and heated to a high temperature to produce iron, while the waste rock forms slag. Over time, blast furnaces have increased in size and switched from using charcoal to coke. To obtain high quality iron and steel, the blast furnace iron is further heated and exposed to air or oxygen in converters like the Bessemer or Siemens-Martin furnace.

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    Iron is produced through a two step process involving a blast furnace and further processing. In a blast furnace, iron ore is mixed with charcoal or coke and heated to a high temperature to produce iron, while the waste rock forms slag. Over time, blast furnaces have increased in size and switched from using charcoal to coke. To obtain high quality iron and steel, the blast furnace iron is further heated and exposed to air or oxygen in converters like the Bessemer or Siemens-Martin furnace.

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    Iron Production - Techniques and History , Bo Justusson

    Basic Steps Iron is produced from ore in two steps. There are many alternate methods
    First ore is mixed with charcoal (or coke) that has been used throughout history
    in a blastfurnace and heated to high for those two steps. When charcoal
    temperature to get iron. Then this iron is was used, countries with both iron ore
    further processed to reduce carbon and and large forests (like Sweden) had
    slag, and to add alloys. an advantage.
    Iron ore and charcoal (or coke) are
    Blast- charged from the top. Air is blown in
    furnace at the bottom. The coal burns to CO
    which reacts with the ore and reduces
    it.
    In principle:
    Fe3O4 + CO --> Fe + CO2
    The waste rock in the ore is lighter
    than iron and floats as slag. The
    melted iron and slag are tapped at the
    bottom.
    (GIF-image 3k)

    Blast-furnaces have been used since


    the 12th century. Their size has
    increased. Charcoal was first used,
    but from around 1800 coke could be
    used.
    To obtain high quality iron and steel
    Iron and from the the blast-furnace iron (pig
    Steel iron), it is heated and treated with air
    or pure oxygen. Left aBessemer
    converter where air is blown in at
    bottom and passes through melted
    iron.

    Below a Siemens-Martin
    furnace where air goes into a pre-
    heater (regenerator) and passes above
    the melted iron and then onto another
    regenerator which gets heated. The
    direction of the air flow is changed
    after a time to make use of the heat!
    Both methods were invented around
    1860.
    (GIF-images 4k+4k)

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