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    Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz-Donawitz steelmaking or the oxygen converter process, is a method of primary steelmaking...
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    furnace (EAF) steelmaking uses scrap steel or direct reduced iron (DRI). Oxygen steelmaking has become more popular over time. Steelmaking is one of the...
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    Steel (redirect from History of steelmaking)
    world's steel in 2023. Further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS), largely replaced earlier methods by further lowering the...
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    Open-hearth furnace (category Steelmaking)
    being replaced by the basic oxygen furnace or electric arc furnace. Whereas the earliest example of open-hearth steelmaking is found about 2000 years...
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    company that reduced iron ore to steel. It specialized in the basic open hearth steelmaking process. This produced a steel that was resistant to extreme...
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  • oxygen is required for the basic oxygen steelmaking process. Modern basic oxygen steelmaking uses almost two tons of oxygen per ton of steel. Nitrogen...
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    the US industry transitioned from the open hearth furnace to the basic oxygen steelmaking process. After peaking in the 1940s and 1950s, the US iron and...
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    Robert Durrer (1890–1978) was a Swiss engineer who invented the basic oxygen steelmaking process (the Linz-Donawitz process, named after the towns where...
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  • manufactured in one-twelfth the time. Basic oxygen steelmaking is superior to previous steelmaking methods because the oxygen pumped into the furnace limited...
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    operate at the Lackenby part of the site. On 1 October 2022, the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) Plant at Lackenby was demolished in one of the largest single...
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    Moscow" Order of the Partisan Star (Yugoslavia) Ball lightning Basic oxygen steelmaking Bipolar battery Cliodynamics Quantum hydrodynamics Reynolds equation...
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    Bessemer process (category Steelmaking)
    its obsolescence. Basic oxygen steelmaking is essentially an improved version of the Bessemer process (decarburization by blowing oxygen as gas into the...
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    Steel Duquesne Works, Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Plant" HAER No. PA-115-C, "U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Electric Furnace Steelmaking Plant" HAER No. PA-115-D...
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    composition of the material. The major use of quicklime is in the basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) process. Its usage varies from about 30 to 50 kilograms (65–110 lb)...
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  • the Bangladesh Army Business of Fashion, a fashion publication Basic oxygen steelmaking, a furnace used in steel production Beginning of file, in computing...
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    Open hearth furnace; Electric arc furnace, introduced in 1907; Basic oxygen steelmaking, introduced in 1952. The mills operating converters of any type...
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    Electric arc furnace (category Steelmaking)
    producing cast iron products) up to about 400-tonne units used for secondary steelmaking. Arc furnaces used in research laboratories and by dentists may have...
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  • 1948: Basic oxygen steelmaking is developed by Robert Durrer. The majority of steel manufactured in the world is produced using the basic oxygen furnace;...
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    Slag (redirect from Basic slag)
    [citation needed] As a co-product of steelmaking, slag is typically produced either through the blast furnace – oxygen converter route or the electric arc...
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    085 kilograms (15,620 lb) (about 860 million people in 2005). Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) uses 25–35% recycled steel to make new steel. BOS steel usually...
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  • metallurgical smelting Bessemer converter Manhès-David converter see also basic oxygen steelmaking Catalytic converter, in automobiles Autogas converter, part of...
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    Blast furnace (category Steelmaking)
    In a further process step, the so-called basic oxygen steelmaking, the carbon is oxidized by blowing oxygen onto the liquid pig iron to form crude steel...
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  • Valley Works, the USS Edgar Thomson Steel Works (blast furnaces, basic oxygen steelmaking, and continuous slab casting), the USS Irvin Plant (hot and cold...
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    polishing Work hardening – adding strength to metals, alloys, etc. Basic oxygen steelmaking Bessemer process Blast furnace – produced cast iron Catalan forge...
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  • of system, components of a photovoltaic system besides panels Basic oxygen steelmaking BOS/360, operating system for System/360 computers developed by...
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    the process. The AOD process has a significant place in the history of steelmaking, introducing a transformative method for refining stainless steel and...
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  • (manufacturing) Linz-Donawitz process, a widely used process in Basic oxygen steelmaking (mathematics) Binary logarithm, l d ( x ) = log 2 ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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  • Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (EKO). Cold rolling facilities were added in 1974, and basic oxygen steelmaking in 1984. After German reunification in 1990 the state-owned plant...
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  • PeroCycle (category Steelmaking)
    production. It is designed to be integrated into blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steelmaking, allowing existing steel plants to lower emissions while...
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  • various fish in the family Ammodytidae (sand eels) Oxygen lance, a pipe used in basic oxygen steelmaking The Lance, a student newspaper Lancer (disambiguation)...
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