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Use of Oxygen in the Bessemer Converter

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This paper presents the results of a production experiment evaluating the effect of the use of oxygen in the bessemer converter with respect to its relation to blowing time, amount of steel scrap or cold pig iron which can be melted and teeming temperatures of the molten steel.

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  1. National Tube Div., United States Steel Co., Lorain Works, Lorain, Ohio, USA

    W. T. Rogers (Statistical Engineer) & L. T. Sanchez (Superintendent of the Bessemer Dept.)

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  1. W. T. Rogers
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Discussion on this paper, TP 3339C, may be sent, 2 copies, to AIME, by April 1, 1953. Manuscript, April 14, 1952. Los Angeles Meeting, February 1953.

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Rogers, W.T., Sanchez, L.T. Use of Oxygen in the Bessemer Converter. JOM 4, 933–938 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397749

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