It is proposed that the completeness of combustion of pulverized-coal fuel injected into the hearth of blast furnaces be determined by petrographic analysis of the content of unburned coal particles in the top dust and slag and chemical analysis of the dust and slag.
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 8, pp. 26–34, August, 2013.
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Kochura, V.V., Yaroshevskii, S.L., Kupenko, V.I. et al. Method of Determining the Degree of Combustion of Pulverized-Coal Fuel in Blast Furnaces. Metallurgist 57, 671–681 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-013-9796-8
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