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mark costello 1	10/06/2022 00:44:03
800 forum posts 16 photos	This steel mill dated back to American Civil War times, probably did not see the need to change. Just drop the charge into the trough, hook up 2 wires, No one around even close, it is as safe as anything else in a steel mill.
Bazyle	10/06/2022 18:39:15
6956 forum posts 229 photos	We were told during my Uni course that during the initial smelting of, I think bauxite, the enclosed long furnace had holes in the sides, perhaps for arc electrodes to be inserted. They got blocked by the gunge inside so for many years after WW2 a system was devised for using bazooka rounds to open them again.
Nigel Graham 2	10/06/2022 22:54:33
3293 forum posts 112 photos	The Swedes and Germans were using arc-furnaces for iron-ore smelting back in the early years of last century, but the contemporary text-book I have concentrates on the electrical-engineering, and I don't think it mentions what reducing-agent was used. The furnaces resembled a conventional blast-furnace in basic form, but with enormous graphite electrodes. Presumably the coke-fired process was found more economical!
DMR	11/06/2022 00:14:17
136 forum posts 14 photos	When a big load of molten steel gets accidentally dropped into a snow -driven muddy puddle, it makes quite a big bang and quite a big mess. Port Talbot BOS (Basic Oxygen Steel) plant during early commissioning.

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