blast furnace

blast furnace

blast furnace

n. A furnace in which combustion is intensified by a blast of air, especially a furnace for smelting iron by blowing air through a hot mixture of ore, coke, and flux.

blast furnace

n (Metallurgy) a vertical cylindrical furnace for smelting iron, copper, lead, and tin ores. The ore, scrap, solid fuel, and slag-forming materials are fed through the top and a blast of preheated air is forced through the charge from the bottom. Metal and slag are run off from the base

blast′ fur`nace

n. a large furnace for smelting iron from ore.

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Noun

blast furnace - a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of airfurnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.steel factory, steel mill, steel plant, steelworks - a factory where steel is made

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高炉鼓风炉

blast

(blaːst) noun1. a strong, sudden stream (of air). a blast of cold air. 一阵（风） 2. a loud sound. a blast on the horn.大声3. an explosion. the blast from a bomb.爆炸 verb1. to tear (apart etc) by an explosion. The door was blasted off its hinges.爆破2. (often with out) to come or be sent out, very loudly. Music (was being) blasted out from the radio. 发出尖响的声音，轰鸣 ˈblasting noun in mining etc, the breaking up of rock etc by explosives. 爆破blast furnace noun a furnace for melting iron ore using blasts of hot air. 鼓风炉，高炉 at full blast at full power, speed etc. He had the radio going at full blast (= as loud as possible). 以全功率，以全速 blast off (of rockets, spacecraft etc) to take off and start to rise ( ˈblast-off) noun （火箭、航天飞机等的）点火起飞，点火升空

blast furnace

blast furnace,

structure used chiefly in smeltingsmelting,
in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature of the ore and the metal involved, but they are typified in the use of the blast furnace.
..... Click the link for more information. . The principle involved in this means of extracting metals is that of the reduction of the ores by the action of carbon monoxide, i.e., the removal of oxygen from the metal oxide in order to obtain the metal. Blast furnaces differ in construction. The one used in the production of iron consists of a chimneylike structure (usually 80–100 ft/24–30 m high) made of iron or steel and lined with firebrick. It is narrow at the top, increasing in diameter downward, but narrowing again suddenly almost at the bottom, to form the hearth or crucible. There the fine molten products are caught. The furnace is fed from the top with a charge of definite quantities of ore, coke, and a flux, mostly limestone. Preheated compressed air is introduced at the bottom through pipes (tuyères) entering just above the hearth. The air passes upward through the charge. The coke is oxidized to carbon dioxide, which changes to carbon monoxide at the high temperature. The carbon monoxide then reduces the ores and, taking on oxygen, reverts to carbon dioxide. This gas, together with unused carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and other constituents of the air originally introduced, is led off through a pipe from the top of the furnace and, being still at a high temperature, is employed to heat the stoves into which fresh air for the process is brought. As the operation proceeds, the mass in the furnace becomes molten and descends into the crucible. The iron sinks to the bottom; impurities, called the slag, being lighter, float on top. The slag is drained through a pipe in the upper portion of the crucible. The iron is tapped from below and run into sand molds to harden. The product is known as pig iron or cast iron (see ironiron,
metallic chemical element; symbol Fe [Lat. ferrum]; at. no. 26; at. wt. 55.845; m.p. about 1,535&degC;; b.p. about 2,750&degC;; sp. gr. 7.87 at 20&degC;; valence +2, +3, +4, or +6. Iron is biologically significant.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Efforts to increase production rates have led to the addition of pure oxygen and steam and the sizing of ore to obtain better gas-solid contact. Flux and ore are sometimes combined into pellets. Pig iron prepared in the blast furnace is converted into steel by the Bessemer processBessemer process
[for Sir Henry Bessemer], industrial process for the manufacture of steel from molten pig iron. The principle involved is that of oxidation of the impurities in the iron by the oxygen of air that is blown through the molten iron; the heat of oxidation raises the
..... Click the link for more information. . Copper ore treated in a blast furnace yields a copper matte, from which only a part of the impurities are removed. It is usually further refined by electrolytic methods (see coppercopper,
metallic chemical element; symbol Cu [Lat. cuprum=copper]; at. no. 29; at. wt. 63.546; m.p. 1,083.4&degC;; b.p. 2,567&degC;; sp. gr. 8.96 at 20&degC;; valence +1 or +2. Copper and some of its alloys have been used by humanity since the Bronze Age.
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blast furnace

[′blast ‚fər·nəs] (metallurgy) A tall, cylindrical smelting furnace for reducing iron ore to pig iron; the blast of air blown through solid fuel increases the combustion rate.

blast furnace

a vertical cylindrical furnace for smelting iron, copper, lead, and tin ores. The ore, scrap, solid fuel, and slag-forming materials are fed through the top and a blast of preheated air is forced through the charge from the bottom. Metal and slag are run off from the base

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noun a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores

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