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open-hearth furnace
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open-hearth furnace
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(Engineering / Metallurgy) (esp formerly) a steel-making reverbatory furnace in which pig iron and scrap are contained in a shallow hearth and heated by producer gas
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Noun1.open-hearth furnace - a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it
furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
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BRITISH STEEL ARCHIVE Bill Parry wrote: The workers feeding the furnaces remind me of the open hearth furnaces at Grangetown, which I helped demolish in the Sixties with a firm called Road Materials.
Team of the week; Remember When by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Where blast furnaces are used to reduce iron ore into pig iron, various kinds of steelmaking furnaces are made for a multitude of other purposes: Puddling furnace, reverberatory furnace, Bessemer converter, open hearth furnace, basic oxygen furnace, electric arc furnace, electric induction furnace.
There's More Types of Furnaces than the One in Your House by Herbert Sanchez / Home based business community
from 1961 to 1986, says the auto bundles were a low grade of scrap, but that open hearth furnace operators would still consume the bundles if they could be diluted in a large melt.
A better idea: the decline in quality of number two auto bundles ... by Taylor, Brian / Recycling Today
 
 
 
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