Coke (fuel)
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Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content. It is made by heating coal or petroleum in the absence of air. Coke is an important industrial product, used mainly in the
Raw coke
A coke oven at a smokeless fuel plant, Abercwmboi, Wales, 1976
The Monckton Coke Works at Royston, South Yorkshire, in operation discharging glowing coke from one of the bank of ovens on the left in 2013
Postcard depicting coke ovens and coal tipple in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Blast furnace
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A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. Blast refers to the combustion air being
Coke (fuel)
…REL) of 0.2 mg/m3 benzene-soluble fraction over an eight-hour workday. Coke can be used as a fuel and as a reducing agent in smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. The carbon monoxide produced by combustion of coke reduces iron oxide (hematite) to produce iron: Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2…
Former AHM blast furnace in Port of Sagunt, Valencia, Spain
Blast furnaces of Třinec Iron and Steel Works in Czech Republic
Charcoal burning iron blast furnace in Jackson County, Ohio, 1923
Rising carbon monoxide reduces iron oxides to pure iron through a series of reactions that occur at different areas within a blast furnace.