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Development of Multipurpose Designs of Oxygen Lumps and Methods for Combined Blowing of a Converter Bath

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The issues of development and improvement of multipurpose structures of oxygen lances and methods of combined blowing of a converter bath with supply of multi-pulse jets of oxygen and neutral gas to the working space of the unit through the upper two-tier and double-circuit lances and neutral gas through bottom blowing devices have been considered.

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Chernyatevich, A.G., Molchanov, L.S., Merkulov, A.E. et al. Development of Multipurpose Designs of Oxygen Lumps and Methods for Combined Blowing of a Converter Bath. Steel Transl. 51, 640–647 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091221090023

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