The principle of operation of a blast furnace

• The principle of operation of the blast furnace

Here is the furnace itself, a huge, complex structure of the multimeter.

The bottom of the furnace small branch of hell. Temperature therein reaches more than 2000 degrees

In a four tap furnace until the metal flows through a trough, while others do not work, they are sealed by special plugs. Here we see two arms which flows molten mass. Top - slag, waste production, bottom iron saturated with carbon. By the way, then sell the slag, it is used in construction, road building, and so on. N.

Later, the concentration of carbon in the iron will be reduced to a minimum to receive therefrom steel. In a steel mill of many types, depending on the carbon content in it changing properties - flexibility, strength, etc...

It is almost ready to cast ..

Next iron gets into your drain. It is poured into huge ladles, driven by iron rail to the next processing station. Man in the mask and overalls - hearth, watching so that soup is not burnt.

You open the window, and there ...

The raw material to the plant comes from the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, where the world's largest iron ore deposits. Ore deposit is located only 350 km from Lipetsk, for delivery to the enterprise is not difficult.

So it looks from the outside. The raw material for smelting enters the furnace top.

If I'm not mistaken, it's cooling systems.

And so looks like a blast furnace in section.