Sentences with phrase «coal blast furnaces»

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In 1870, Union Coal became the Joliet Iron and Steel Co., and by 1873 the company's blast furnaces were working around the clock.

Steel makers, for instance, will need to replace blast furnaces that rely on coal with electric arc furnaces.

Railroad lines, new roads and iron trestles, blast furnaces, smokestacks, rail stations and coal pits are all represented in his paintings.

In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon - to - be-forgotten architectural forms of industry — Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks, Grain Elevators, to name but a few.

Water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, coal mine tipples, and grain elevators — each of their photographs isolates a large structure and describes it with the frontality and exactitude of an engineer's diagram.

Objects included barns, water towers, coal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coal bunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses.

Besides strong demand for thermal coal, which is burned in power plants, use of metallurgical coal or coking coal, used in blast furnaces, is also expected to more than double in China, to about 1.7 billion metric tons by 2016, as the country's steel mills churn out more steel for automobiles, skyscrapers and export goods, the Peabody study says.

We've stopped burning liquid fuels to generate electricity, injected powdered coal instead of fuel oil into blast furnaces, raised the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE), lowered the kerosene consumption of jet engines, and improved the efficiency of thousands of industrial processes.

Coal was, however, used only on a limited scale until the early 18th century, when Abraham Darby of England and others developed methods of using coke made from coal in blast furnaces and forCoal was, however, used only on a limited scale until the early 18th century, when Abraham Darby of England and others developed methods of using coke made from coal in blast furnaces and forcoal in blast furnaces and forges.