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- Title
Add CaC<sub>2</sub> to improve the efficiency of steelmaking furnaces.
- Abstract
The article features the new technology developed by NuFlux LLC based in Warren, Ohio, and Carbide Industries LLC based in Louisville, Kentucky. The new technology is intended for the improvement of steelmaking efficiency of an electric arc furnace (EAF) by simply adding calcium carbide to the process. Carbide Industries technical manager Stewart Robinson explains that the technology works by forming a slag out of the fluxes absorb silica, alumina and other impurities. The slag is then injected with natural gas, granular coke and oxygen for the product to become foamy. Calcium carbide and other fluxing materials are also added in order to maintain the chemistry of the slag.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SLAG; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; NUFLUX LLC; CARBIDE Industries LLC; CALCIUM carbide; ROBINSON, Stewart; INDUSTRIAL efficiency; MINERAL aggregates
- Publication
Chemical Engineering, 2009, Vol 116, Issue 6, p11
- ISSN
0009-2460
- Publication type
Article