Emile Hiertz
Emile Hiertz (* 1857 in Heinerscheid ; † 1919 ) was a Luxembourg chemist, smelter and pioneer of blast furnace technology.
Life
Emile Hiertz visited the Athenaeum in Luxembourg. He then studied chemistry and metallurgy at the Polytechnic School in Aachen . In 1879 he became a member of the Academic Association of Chemists and Metallurgists at the Polytechnic School in Aachen , later the Corps Montania Aachen. In 1881 he began his professional career as a laboratory manager at the iron and steel works in Monceau-sur-Sambre near Charleroi . After a year he was appointed blast furnace engineer. In 1884 he moved to the iron and steel works of Karcher & Westermann in Ars-sur-Moselle .
In the industrial crisis of 1886 he returned to Belgium and became a blast furnace engineer at the Société de Sclessin in Tilleur . In 1889 he became head of the blast furnace department of the Société Cockerill in Seraing . There he built Belgium's first large blast furnace and introduced the production of cement and bricks from blast furnace slag . In addition, he pushed the use of furnace gas as a secondary energy source. He was one of the internationally recognized experts in the iron and steel industry of his time.
Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown , 1902
Fonts
- Agglomeration of flue dust by the chloride of magnesium method at the works of the Société John Cockerill, Seraing, Belgium , 1913
Web links
- Hiertz, Emile (1857-1919) on www.aachen.lu
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Ludwig Neher: The Corps Montania zu Aachen, 1872-1957 , 1957, p. 116
- ^ Memorial of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, No. 51, Thursday, July 24, 1902, p. 718.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiertz, Emile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Luxembourgish chemist, hüttenmann and pioneer of blast furnace technology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinerscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1919 |