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    An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of...
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    into steel in less than 40 minutes, compared to 10–12 hours in an open hearth furnace. The basic oxygen process developed outside of the traditional "big...
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    furnace and production of crucible steel. This was followed by the Bessemer process in England in the mid-19th century, and then by the open-hearth furnace...
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    production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation...
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    reverberatory furnace or open hearth furnace. The major advantage of this system is keeping the impurities of the fuel separated from the charge. The hearth is where...
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  • furnace Induction furnace Open hearth furnace Puddling furnace Reverberatory furnace Furnace, Argyll, Scotland, a village Furnace, Carmarthenshire, Wales...
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  • The AJAX furnace was a modification of the tilting open hearth furnace that used blown oxygen to improve productivity. The process was used in the UK...
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    interchangeable parts, as well as the invention of the Bessemer process and open hearth furnace to produce steel, later developments heralded the Second Industrial...
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  • Siemens (1823–1883), brother of Werner von Siemens and inventor of the Open Hearth Furnace Siemens, Michigan, a community in the United States Siemens AG, a...
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    oxygen furnace. Furnaces can convert up to 350 tons of iron into steel in less than 40 minutes compared to 10–12 hours in an open hearth furnace. Electric...
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