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The current problem of the Sidor Steel Shop is the chemical energy supply to the
furnace where the iron needs to combine with several elements as aluminum, molybdenum,
carbon and titanium depending on the required strength of the steel and ductile properties.
The use of a solid carbon supply in the steel fusion process is necessary to comply with the
requirements of carbon in the steel chemistry and the energy for the fusion process. In the
industrial market, there are two carbon sources used in the steel and heavy industry. There
is the anthracite and coke (Geology, 2015).
Both are used in the steel industry depending on the price and providers availability
but are necessary to have technical criteria to select what is the best carbon supply for the
steel fusion process. For that reason is necessary to consider the following hypothesis:
the use of the anthracite as carbon supply will offer more energy to the fusion
process than using the coke.
the use of the anthracite as carbon supply will offer better chemical properties to
the fusion process in the same mass proportion than the use of coke.
Both hypotheses require the study of several variables to track the behavior of the
carbon. The independent variables are:
Carbon mass used in the experimentation: The carbon mass is affected by the
investigator. The quantity of used carbon will affect both results in the chemical and fusion
process. This data is ordinal.

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Size of material: The size of material affects the effective area of contact between
the iron and the other components of the fusion. The size of material may be affected using
a mill.

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Reference List
Geology (2015). What Is Coal and How Does It Form? Retrieved from
http://geology.com/rocks/coal.shtml