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open-hearth furnace

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open-hearth furnace
n
(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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At the Ford steelmaking plant, obsolete autos were baled one at a time and then fed to an open-hearth furnace.
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.
1857 - Regenerative open-hearth furnace is developed.
 
 
 
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