The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. (Iron and Steel Works.) The Basic Open Hearth Process

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Walker E. R

Organization:: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Pages:: 30
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Publication Date:: Jan 1, 1930

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IN the early age of steel it was made hy what is known as the cementation proeess, in which wrought iron was embedded in charcoal and heated in a mufflc furnace to a tcmperature of approximately 1100° C. for varying lengths of time, the length of time depending upon the amount of carbon (or better known in thosedays as the degree of hardness) required in the finished product.By this process the resultant product obtained was not of uniform quality, and because of this uncertainty of quality Huntsman was induced, in the year 1740, to introduee what is known as the crucible process.This process consisted of cutting into small pieces the product of the cementation process, placing these pieces in a crucible, and melting them down with the aid of a eoke-fired furnace, after which the molten metal was cast into suitahly shaped ingots, from which could be hammered any desired shape.A section of crucible furnace is shown in Fig. 1. By this means a product, very uniform in character, was produced.The process is still in use, but, owing to its high operating cost, it is mostly eonfined to the production of very high-grade carhon and alloy steels. Its position to-day as a producer of these high-grade steels is, however, being very seriously challenged by the electric process.It was owing to the excessive cost of crucible steels and the need of producing a steel in commercial quantities and at a reasonable cost, that led Sir Henry Bessemer to introduce what is known as the Bessemer process.

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APA: Walker E. R (1930) The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. (Iron and Steel Works.) The Basic Open Hearth Process

MLA: Walker E. R The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. (Iron and Steel Works.) The Basic Open Hearth Process. The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1930.

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