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  • 1Blast furnace — A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron. In a blast furnace, fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is… …

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  • 2Cornwall Iron Furnace — U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark …

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  • 3Moira Furnace — This picture shows Moira Furnace with the furnace stack at the front and the bridgehouse building at the rear, originally there would have been a casting shed in front of the furnace where the iron pigs were produced …

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  • 4Electric arc furnace — An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 …

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  • 5Elizabeth Furnace — was a blast furnace in the Shenandoah Valley that was used to create pig iron from 1836 – 1888 using Passage Creek for water power. Iron ore was mined nearby, purified in the furnace, and then pig iron was transported over the Massanutten… …

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  • 6Open hearth furnace — Engineering portal …

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  • 7Shaft furnace — Shaft Shaft, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. ????, ????, a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. {Scape} …

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  • 8Bellefonte Furnace — was a hot blast iron furnace located in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1888, it was the first hot blast, coke fueled iron furnace to be built in Centre County, Pennsylvania. While its founders hoped to transform Centre County s iron… …

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  • 9Nittany Furnace — Location of the two hot blast coke furnaces, Bellefonte and Nittany, in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Nittany Furnace, known earlier as Valentine Furnace, was a hot blast iron furnace located in Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United …

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  • 10Cupola furnace — A cupola furnace in operation at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan A Cupola or Cupola furnace is a melting device used in foundries that can be used to melt cast iron, ni resist iron and some bronzes. The cupola can be made almost any… …

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