The blast furnace remains the cornerstone of high‐volume ironmaking, utilising complex thermal and chemical reactions to reduce iron oxides into molten iron. Contemporary operations place increasing ...

Researchers have developed a new process to reduce CO2 emission of worldwide steel production by several hundred million tons per year. It is based on modernizing blast furnace technology with ...

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They called it Furnace Island, and with good reason. The narrow tract along Route 61, across from the former Mady Car Wash, was home to iron furnaces beginning in the early 1800s. Indeed, even before ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

SCRANTON – A pair of festivals highlighted the city’s rich history Saturday afternoon. Hudson Kavanaugh, 5, of Swoyersville, flashed a big smile while touring the Union Pacific 4012 “Big Boy” steam ...

This global shift may have come as a result of smelters looking for ways to increase copper yields.

During the 19th century, the population in Wassaic, a hamlet in the Town of Amenia, increased considerably due in large part to the innovations and astute business sense of Noah Gridley. Aside from ...

Dr Tessa Leach works for Climateworks Centre. She is a member of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative, which received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Dr Tyra ...