Lower shaft furnace

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A low-shaft furnace denotes a for the production of ferro-alloys melting furnace used or pig iron with a lower overall height (up to 10 m shaft height) in contrast to the blast furnace . The low-shaft furnace with a round, rectangular or elliptical cross-section allows the smelting of poor ores with low-quality ores with fuels , such as. B. high-temperature lignite coke , which cannot be processed in the blast furnace.

The racing furnaces could be regarded as early low- shaft furnaces , since some of the low-grade iron ores had to be smelted here too.

In 1950, the world's first industrial low-shaft furnace was built in the VEB "Eisenwerke West" in Calbe , and on October 15, 1951 the first pig iron was extracted.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First pig iron from Eisenwerke West. In: New Germany. October 16, 1951. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .

swell

  • Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Class for Mining, Metallurgy and Montangeology, Published 1961
  • Freiberg research booklets; Bergakademie Freiberg, Akademie-Verlag, Freiberg 1964

literature

  • Erich E. Hofmann: Smelting ore-coal mixed briquettes in a low-shaft furnace , Stahleisen, 1954
  • Lüdemann / Ebert: Fundamentals of pig iron production in a low-shaft furnace with extensive use of low-iron feedstocks , Academy, Berlin 1962