In the blast furnace, it is so hot that carbon monoxide can be used, in place of carbon, to reduce the iron(III) oxide: iron(III) oxide + carbon monoxide → iron + carbon dioxide The blast ...

About 50 descendants of people who were enslaved at Catoctin Furnace will gather for a unique “descendants’ reunion” this ...

Up to 1709, furnaces could only use charcoal to produce iron. However, wood (which is what charcoal is made from) was becoming more expensive, as forests were being cleared for farmland and timber.

Cleveland-Cliffs is looking to replace a blast furnace at an Ohio steel mill with a transformative new technology.

The last molten iron will be tapped from Blast Furnace 5 this week Loud noises and large plumes of steam will be visible above the Port Talbot steelworks as one of its historic furnaces is closed ...

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has put into commercial operation a digital solution based on a machine learning model that helps specialists control the supply of oxygen to the blast furnace. The ...

Standing 365ft (111m) high, the blast furnace once produced 3.6 million tonnes of iron a year. The former steelworks site is being cleared to create the Teesworks industrial zone, the UK's largest ...

The struggle for Steel continued. Finally, the Soviet Union came to the rescue in the decade of the seventies by offering to ...

The decommissioning of Blast Furnace 5 and associated plant started immediately after the last liquid iron was produced on Thursday. The second blast furnace is due to be shut down in September.

Its headquarters are based at the 2,000-acre Scunthorpe site in Lincolnshire, along with its main iron and steelmaking operations. Its four blast furnaces produce about three million tonnes of ...