Pig Iron
Pig iron is the intermediate product of smelting iron ore with a high-carbon fuel such as coke, usually with limestone as a flux. Charcoal and anthracite have also been used as fuel. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications.
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... A blast furnace converts raw iron ore into pig iron, which can be remelted in a cupola furnace to produce cast iron ... The earliest specimens of cast iron found in China date to the 5th century BCE during the late Spring and Autumn Period, yet the oldest discovered blast. 141–87 BCE) established a government monopoly over the iron industry in 117 BCE (most of the discovered iron works sites built before this date were ...
... Pig iron can refer to Pig iron, an intermediate form of iron produced from iron ore and is subsequently worked into steel or wrought iron Pig Iron - The Album by Anti-Nowhere League Pig Iron ...
... swords, tools and cutlery all large metal structures were made of wrought or cast iron ... In the Bessemer process, molten pig iron is converted to steel by blowing air through it after it was removed from the furnace ... The air blast burned the carbon and silicon out of the pig iron, releasing heat and causing the temperature of the molten metal to rise ...
... Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania was rich in anthracite coal and iron deposits ... town of Slocum's Hollow (now Scranton) to establish an iron forge ... The Scrantons focused instead on manufacturing pig iron using a blast furnace ...
... Today, pig iron is typically poured directly out of the bottom of the blast furnace through a trough into a ladle car for transfer to the steel mill ... Modern steel mills and direct-reduction iron plants transfer the molten iron to a ladle for immediate use in the steel making furnaces or cast it into pigs on a pig-casting machine ... Modern pig casting machines produce stick pigs, which break into smaller 4–10 kg pieces at discharge ...
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