blast-furnace gas

A form of blast furnace gas — A gaseous, low calorific value by-product of blast furnaces generated when the iron ore is reduced with coke to metallic iron; commonly used as fuel within the steel works in which the gas is generated. The gas consists chiefly of nonflammable nitrogen and carbon dioxide with about 20% of carbon monoxide (the flammable component).

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nounblast-furnace gas (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of blast furnace gas.

    The utilization of blast-furnace gas was adopted by the French engineers, Thomas and Laurens, as early as 1828; […]

    1878 August 21, “Iron and Steel at the Paris Exhibition”, in The Times, number 29,339, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1
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    Over the past 50 years, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has been developing “significant expertise” in designing turbines that can operate with fuels with from 5 to 90 percent hydrogen content. Often, these fuels have been refinery off-gas, blast-furnace gas and syngas produced from gasification.

    2019 December 22, David McCumber, “Berkeley Pit water to power LA?”, in The Montana Standard, volume 144, number 259, Butte, Mont.: Lee Enterprises, →OCLC, page A6, column 2

    This uses calcium extracted from slag (a traditional waste product) and combines it with CO₂ captured from blast-furnace gas to make high-quality calcium carbonate, which the startup plans to sell as a food ingredient.

    2024 August 15, “Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2024
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