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Zadaća 5
Zadaća 5
B) Pig iron is actually alloy of steel with carbon and it is produced by various
processes from which the eldest is the process in blast furnaces.
Usually after 2 hours, scrap is being almost totaly melted down, and in order to
continue the refinement process, the hot steel (pig iron) is added from the blast
furnace. Electric arcs which are positioned beetween movable carbon electrodes,
are producing heat which is necessary for this process to keep up proceeding.
In order to achieve high degree of purity and high quality of steel, the process
must be done in a right way.
One of the finale stages of this process is tilting or tipping over the furnace in
order to remove impure slag.