Get this book in print
About this book
My library
Books on Google Play
CHAPTER III.
REVIVING OF IRON.
I. Reviving of iron in a crucible
II. Reviving of iron in a stück, or wulf's oven
III. Reviving of iron in a blue, or cast oven
IV. Reviving of iron in various blast furnaces
a. Blast furnace in the Hartz Mountains, Germany
b. Blast furnace at Malapane, Silesia
c. Blast furnace for smelting bog ore
d. Blast furnace for smelting spathic ore, Styria
e. Blast furnace in Sweden
f. Blast furnace in Saynerhütte, Germany
g. Blast furnace at Cold Spring, N. Y.
h. Blast furnace in Pennsylvania
V. Modern charcoal blast furnace
a. Building of a stack-cupola blast furnace
b. Starting of a charcoal furnace
c. Charges of a charcoal furnace
d. Practical remarks
m. Management of the tuyere
187
n. Management of the timp
o. Accumulation of cold clinkers in the hearth
p. Tapping of iron
q. Causes of disorder
. 190
i. Composition of ore best adapted to receive and retain
carbon
214
k. Influence of foreign matter contained in the ore
215
7. Influence of foreign matter relative to absorption of car-
bon
216
p.
Causes of white iron
218
q. Difficulty of smelting gray iron from clay and silicious