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Pig iron is produced by heating the coke iron and limestone in a what?
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Pig iron is produced when heating * Iron ORE (not iron as the question says!) * Coke * limestone in a Blast Furnace.
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What metal is produced when iron ore is mixed with limestone and coke in a blast funace?
Iron. The iron may later have other materials added, and become steel.
How do you remove iron from iron ore?
Iron ore comes as a mixture of Ferric and Ferrous Oxide (forms of iron oxide). At the smelter it is mixed with coke and limestone. The coke is the reducing compound. The limestone or some other substance is the flux. Coke is made from heating coal to a high temperature. The coke becomes almost pure carbon. The mixture is placed into a large brick lined open top furnace. It is set on fire. The oxygen from iron is transferred to the coke. It turns into Carbon dioxide. The iron oxide turns into iron. The limestone mixed with the impurities in the iron ore becomes slag. From time to time a door in the side is opened up to let out liquid iron and slag. The liquid iron is sent to the next process where it may be turned into steel. The slag becomes like glass.
What is the process of iron smelting?
Iron ore is not normally smelted, instead it is reduced in a blast furnace with a mixture of coke & limestone. The coke burns removing the oxygen from the iron ore and melting the resulting iron. The limestone neutralizes acidic sulfur compounds and acts as a flux.
How steel is made from pig iron?
Coke is produced by heating coal in the absence of air. Coke is cheap and provides ...Iron ores. The most commonly used iron ores are haematite (US: hematite), Fe2O3, and magnetite, Fe3O4
What quantities of Iron Ore Coke Limestone air and water in a ton of pig iron?
cake is good
What is the process of smelting iron ore?
Iron ore is not normally smelted, instead it is reduced in a blast furnace with a mixture of coke & limestone. The coke burns removing the oxygen from the iron ore and melting the resulting iron. The limestone neutralizes acidic sulfur compounds and acts as a flux.
Which three substances are put into the blast furnace?
Limestone, Iron Ore and Coke.
What are three raw materials to make pig iron?
iron core , coke and limestone are needed to make pig iron
What three raw materials are used to make pig iron?
iron core , coke and limestone are needed to make pig iron
What are the three substances fed into the blast furnace?
Carbon rich coke limestone and iron
How does limestone coke and iron ore get into the blast furnace?
through the top of the blast furnace
In a blast furnace why are the coke and limestone needed?
coke acts as a reducing agent. It combines with oxygen to form CO which in turn reacts with iron ore to give metallic Iron. Carbon present in coke also produces heat in all oxidation reactions which melts down the metallic iron. Lime stone (CaCO3) breaks down to CaO upon heating which reacts with SiO2, the main impurity, to flux it out of the furnace
