Sentences with phrase «steel blast furnaces»

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The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. Steel has plans to reopen a blast furnace in Granite City, Illinois, and call back 500 workers.

That, in turn, gets used in blast furnaces to create primary steel.

In the world of heavy industry, a boilermaker is known as a trained craftsman who produces steel fabrications for commercial steam and hot water boilers, bridges, blast furnaces and mining equipment, among other applications.

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

Private tours are available through the park district, but area libraries are displaying miniature versions of the ruins, including a 4 - by -8-foot model of a blast furnace, 2 - by -4-foot model of an ironmaking forge and placards describing the steel - making process and the area's history.

Remnants of coke ovens and blast furnaces from the early days of the steel industry, old limestone quarries, prairie grasses and diverse wildlife are among the hidden treasures in the overgrown land set aside for the park, between Lockport and Joliet, according to planners who met this week in Joliet.

«I found it fascinating to go to coke ovens and see steel being made in the blast furnace and watch parts made by pouring molten metal into molds in foundries.»

That step — the conversion of iron ore to iron in a blast furnace — uses 75 percent of the total energy required to turn iron into steel.

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

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

For example, cement manufacturers can use either blast furnace slag from steel mills or pozzolans — natural or manufactured reactive materials that increase the long - term strength of concrete — as substitutes for other, more traditional materials.

Despite eating all the junk I did, up until my early 30s, I was rarely sick and my body temperature was like a blast furnace in a steel mill.

Russell spends his days working the steel mill blast furnaces.

Dieter Leuenberger's hyperrealistic reportage on steel process, from blast furnace to retort to high - polished product, is captive to its own effects and would sit well on the walls of a corporate office.

Why don't these folks just get it over with and starting siting inside of steel mills next to the blast furnaces?

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.

Energy efficiency measures, such as adopting the most efficient blast furnace systems in use today and the complete recovery of used steel, could reduce energy use in the steel industry by 23 percent.

Create Resume August 2004 Bachelor of Science, Major in Computer Science / Mathematics West Virginia University, WV May 2006 Master of Science, Major in Computer Science EXPERIENCE United States Steel Corporation, Edgar Thomson Works, Pittsburgh, PA June 2005 — Dec. 2005 Co - Op / Intern · Create, test and modify software that run the Blast Furnace and the Chemical Lab -LSB-...] Continue Reading →