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Good overview of a modern steel plant in Korea.[1] Useful for seeing how molten steel is handled at scale. Some good views of the refractory bricks inside a col
by Animats 2y ago
Good overview of a modern steel plant in Korea.[1] Useful for seeing how molten steel is handled at scale. Some good views of the refractory bricks inside a cold ladle. It's all about managed heat transfer, getting the heat out of the machinery before damage occurs. Water cooling of everything close to hot metal.
Anybody doing "green" processing of ore at this scale yet?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfaqrVFnQBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfaqrVFnQBQ
- PaulHoule 2y agoFunny the technological breakthrough that made steel affordable was the recycling of heat in firebricks in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-hearth_furnace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-hearth_furnace invented by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Siemens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Siemens whose younger brother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens started the famous electrical equipment conglomerate. Previous to that the bit for a horse cost more than the horse and steel was expensive enough that a historical "sword" seemed more like a "knife" by our standards.
- ggm 2y agoWe were made to study this in numerical analysis classes. I regret not paying more attention, I failed the subject. The university was close to british steel, and so it made sense to the lecturer to use a subject he had some affinity to. Now, if they'd organised a tour of the steel plant...