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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process turned steelmaking into a heavy industry. Today there are two major commercial processes for making steel, namely basic oxygen steelmaking, which has...
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Steel (redirect from History of steelmaking)
late 20th century. 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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Scrap (section Types of scrap used in steelmaking)
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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Air separation (redirect from Separation of oxygen from air)
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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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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industry successively adopted the open hearth furnace, then the basic oxygen steelmaking process. Since the American industry peaked in the 1940s and 1950s...
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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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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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