The Electric Furnace (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Pring, John Norman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330380436 ISBN 13 : 9781330380437

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Power up your metalwork knowledge with the science of the electric furnace. This edition presents a practical overview of electric furnaces, their design, and how they shape modern steelmaking.

This book explains how different furnace types work, including concepts like electrode arrangement, cooling, and how to manage heat and atmosphere inside a furnace. It covers the Stassano and Rennerfeld approaches, detailing how current, voltage, and power factor influence production, efficiency, and electrode life. Expect concrete descriptions of operation, maintenance, and the tradeoffs between radiant and direct-arc heating in electric steel production.

• How three-phase power and electrode cooling keep furnaces running safely.


• Designs that control the arc, heat distribution, and furnace atmosphere.


• Comparisons of furnace types and their practical strengths and limits.


• Real-world notes on efficiency, energy use, and electrode consumption.

Ideal for readers of industrial technology and the history of power-driven metal production, who want a grounded look at early 20th‑century electric steelmaking.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the case of processes in which the electric current merely acts as a heating agent and is dissociated from any electrolytic action, products such as artificial graphite, the highly refractory metals in a compact form, and a large series of compounds of carbon with metals, have been isolated for the first time. In many cases these products have received an industrial application which has already ranged them in the forefront of the worlds manufacturing processes. With other substances, notably certain classes of steel and iron and ferro-alloys, aluminium and sodium, the agency of electricity applied to chemical processes, has led to a very great simplification and cheapening of the manufacture, while with yet another class of products, such as copper and zinc, these methods have enabled materials to be prepared of a degree of purity unattainable by any other means. The electric furnace, in facilitating the production of a range of temperatures well beyond that attainable by any other known method, has thus inaugurated a new department of chemical industry. On account of the rapid progress of this branch of industrial electro-chemistry, it has until recently been generally overlooked that an extension of electrical methods of heating of no less importance has taken place in another direction, viz. in chemical and metallurgical operations, including those with both ferrous and non-ferrous metals for the production of heat at temperatures which are well within the range of ordinary fuel-heating methods.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attent

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330380436
• ISBN 13: 9781330380437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 558
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