open-hearth furnace

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open-hearth furnace

(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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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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furnace Ingot steel open-hearth process steel production			At the Ford steelmaking plant, obsolete autos were baled one at a time and then fed to an open-hearth furnace. Man of action: Sam Proler, now 90, was instrumental in experimenting ... by Taylor, Brian / Recycling Today The men who ran the steel companies never liked to close a plant; they always wanted to keep a margin of extra capacity to take care of their best customers at the top of the economic cycle--even if that meant keeping open ancient open-hearth furnaces that should have been banked twenty years before. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capital by Ignatius, David / Washington Monthly 1857 - Regenerative open-hearth furnace is developed. Timeline of casting technology by Kotzin, Ezra L. / Modern Casting			open-chain open-class word open-collared open-cut mining open-door open-door policy open-end open-end credit open-end fund open-end investment company open-end trust open-end wrench open-ended open-eyed open-face sandwich open-faced open-field Open-front furnace open-handed open-handedness Open-headed open-heart open-heart surgery open-hearted open-hearth open-hearth furnace open-hearth process Open-hearth steel open-market operations open-minded open-mindedness open-mouthed open-necked open-plan open-pollinated open-reel open-source open-source intelligence Open-timber roof open-top Openbill opencast opencast mining opencut opened opener openhanded openhandedness openhearted opening opening hours			open-flow potential open-flow test open-flow well open-frame girder Open-front furnace open-fuse cutout open-graded aggregate Open-Graded Drainage Layer Open-Graded Friction Course Open-Graded Surface Course open-grain open-grained open-grained Open-handed Open-handed open-handedly open-handedly open-handedness open-handedness Open-headed open-heart open-heart open-heart open-heart open-heart open-heart surgery open-heart surgery Open-hearted open-heartedness open-hearth open-hearth furnace open-hearth process open-hearth process open-hearth process open-hearth processes open-hearth processes Open-Hearth Production Open-hearth steel Open-high-low-close chart open-hole completion Open-label study Open-label trial Open-Line Garden Show open-link fuse Open-List Proportional Representation Open-Loop Carrier Synchronizer Open-Loop Control open-loop control system Open-loop controller Open-Loop Feedback Control Open-Loop Onset Point Open-Loop Power Control Open-Loop Power Control Error Open-Loop Rate Control Open-Loop Resonator Open-Loop Resonator Filter Open-Loop Time Division Multiple Access Open-Loop Tracking Complex

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