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A walking beam furnace allows the product to be heated from all sides, where a walking hearth furnace only alloys product to be heated from the top and is more suitable for thinner products. There is no major mechanism difference between a walking hearth and a walking beam furnace. For a walking beam furnace, an actual walking beam will lift the product and move it forward. Then the product is lowered onto the stationary beams. While the load is resting on the stationary beams the walking beam moves underneath the product back to the home position ready to perform another walk. Whereas for a walking hearth furnace, portions of the refractory lined hearth are used to raise the product and move it toward the discharge in a walking fashion. Both mechanisms of moving the product to the discharge, are almost identical.
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How many types of furnaces are there?
* Walking Beam Furnace * Walking Hearth Furnace * Roller Hearth Tunnel Furnaces for thin slabs * Rotary Hearth Furnaces * Pusher Furnaces
What was the name of the furnace invented by Pierre Martin and Werner Siemens?
The open hearth furnace.
When was the Open Hearth Furnace invented?
In 1865, the French engineer Pierre-Émile Martin took out a license from Siemens and first applied his furnace for making steel. Their process was known as the Siemens-Martin process, and the furnace as an "open-hearth" furnace.
What is the size of furnace hearth in a modern blast furnace?
over 1.5 metres i would say over 1.5 metres i would say
What is the difference between a fireplace mantle and a hearth?
A fireplace mantel is more of a decorative framework around the fireplace, often made of wood. Meanwhile, a hearth is a brick or stone-lined fireplace.
What is the definition of forge?
There are 2 definitions - 1. To make a forgery or counterfeit. 2. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated and wrought
What two methods of making steel changed the steel industry?
The Open Hearth Furnace and the Bessemer Process <- thanks veeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy mmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is a Forge?
Forging is the process of forming metal. It also can be the act of hunting usually food in the woods.
What was puddling used for in gold fields?
Wrong metal. Puddling was used in converting iron ore into iron and steel in an open hearth furnace. Not gold.
What is twin hearth furnace?
Russian Designed, Twin Hearth Furnaces are the modernized version of the Older Open Hearth Furnaces which now comprise two adjoining furnaces side by side to alternately use up the sensible heat of the gases generated due to the steel making process being carried out in one furnace to heat up the scrap and other materials in the other furnace till the first one is tapped and then the entire process is repeated for the next heat that is to be carried out in the first furnace utilizing the sensible heat of the second furnace. This cycle is alternated and the result is to cut on time of production and minimizing heating up costs. In India these types of furnaces are still being used at State Owned Steel Authority Of India Limited's Bhilai Steel Plant and IISCO Steel Plant. They are followed by Ingot casting route and the Blooming and Billet milling plant.
How the open hearth process became obsolete?
Because of small termal efficiency, high prices of oil, long duration of process,.... Today steel is mainly made by electric arc furnace and by converters. Converters use only oxygen for refining blast furnace iron. Electric arc furnaces can melt scrap steel much faster than in the old open hearth furnaces. Much of disadvantages of open hearth furnaces are solved in electric arc furnaces and converters. Open hearth furnaces can't melt high quality alloy steels, but they can melt very good quality construction steels. They are still in use by Russians about 30% and Ukrainians 50% and other former soviet countries. The open hearth furnaces was more then a century the symbol of a steel making.
First cultural hearth developed between Tigris and Euphrates?
mesopotamia
