Abstract
FOR some years past, under the auspices of the National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers (now the British Iron and Steel Federation), an experimental inquiry has been carried out at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, under the direction of Prof. W. A. Bone, into the interactions of gases and ores during blast-furnace iron smelting. The results of this investigation have been embodied in a series of communications to the Iron and Steel Institute in 1927, 1930 and papers read at its meeting in London on May 31 last. The latest report (Part 4) is of special interest in that it deals comprehensively with (1) equilibria in the systems FexOy + yCO = FexOy-1 + yCO2 between 750 ° and 1150 ° C, and FexOy + yH2 = FexOy-1 + yH2O between 450 ° and 850 °; and (2) the relative velocities of ore reduction by the carbonic oxide in blast-furnace gas over a temperature range of 450 °-1,000 ° under the same conditions as regards gas speeds and composition as are met with in the blast-furnace itself.
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Interactions of Gases and Ores during Iron Smelting. Nature 134, 312–313 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134312a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134312a0