reverberatory furnace

A furnace or kiln in which radiant heat from the burning fuel is reflected downward from the roof onto the material under treatment.

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reverberatory furnace

(Metallurgy) a metallurgical furnace having a curved roof that deflects heat onto the charge so that the fuel is not in direct contact with the ore

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reverberatory furnace - a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace

furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

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In a reverberatory furnace, extra castable insulation in the roof and block and board insulation in the upper sidewalls roof was added.

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There are the fine, late "texturalist" poems, each a "reweaving of an existing text into another texture, previously only implicit." My favorite is "All the Blue: From the Director's Book of Josiah Spode," the English ceramicist's dramatic recipe for heating a mixture of plaster, borax, and cobalt monoxide in a reverberatory furnace to create a substance known simply as "blue": but as a large proportion of the colour will persist in ore sunk to the bottom, it will be necessary to pursue the same method with the residue and then-- although the exact duration and quantity of heat is impossible to state for it varies directly with the body of ore, the size of furnace and strength of fire-- without doubt it will yield the remainder of the blue.

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Mr Belford said: 'The discovered cementation furnace would have consisted of a large sandstone chest, in an arched brick chamber (a reverberatory furnace).

How lost furnace could rewrite the history books

The reverberatory furnace has been replaced by a Teniente converter and a circular electric slag cleaning furnace designed to treat all the slags generated by the converter.

Extractive metallurgy

A pusher feeder sends the lead into the plant's reverberatory furnace, fired with oxy-fuel burners built by American Combustion Inc.

Recovering heavy metals

It includes one reverberatory furnace and three casting machines.

Busche builds its platform: Busche Performance Group, seeking to become a competitive Tier-1 automotive supplier, acquired an aluminum casting operation as its first order of business

The process used was the traditional one of smelting in a reverberatory furnace and conversion to copper in Hoboken and Peirce Smith converters.

Enami modernises its smelters

In conjunction with the molding machine, Talladega Pattern added a new reverberatory furnace from The Schaefer Group, Dayton, Ohio, to help melting keep pace with molding.

Talladega pattern's plunge into automation: a small green sand nonferrous job shop answered the pull of customer demand with its first automatic molding line and sand system

ZCCM has also signed a know-how agreement for the transfer of pyrometallurgical techniques for oxy-fuel burners in reverberatory furnaces, and for the autogenous smelting of concentrate with the simultaneous conversion of reverberatory furnace matte using oxygen enrichment of the blowing air in a Teniente converter.

Techpro: global involvement in copper mining and processing