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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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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Bessemer process (category Steelmaking)
Jackson,A (1964), Oxygen Steelmaking for Steelmakers. George Newnes Ltd. Baggley, P & Sanderson, N (2002) A Pictorial archive of Steelmaking at Workington...
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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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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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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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