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Q: What does the carbon dioxide do in the blast furnace?
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Why is hot air blasted into a blast furnace?

Hot air is blasted into the blast furnace to burn the coke (a cheap form of carbon) added to form carbon dioxide.


When iron ore is heated in a blast furnace the product are pure iron and carbon dioxide?

I think it istrue


What is the word equation for coke in a blast furnace?

(Extraction of Iron in a Blast Furnace: Step 1 and Step 2)Coke reacts with oxygen from the air to form carbon dioxide and a lot of heat.Carbon + Oxygen -> Carbon Dioxide + heatC(s) + O2(g) -> CO2(g)Carbon dioxide reacts with more coke to form carbon monoxideCarbon Dioxide + Carbon -> Carbon MonoxideCO2(g) + C(s) -> 2CO(g)


What is use of mud carbon in blast furnace?

Mudgun is hydraulically operated machine that is used to close the tap hole of the blast furnace after draining out the metal / slag from the furnace from time to time. It is heavy equipment and the most critical of all the equipments used in blast furnace. The failure of the machine will lead to shut down of the furnace to close the tap hole.


What is coke for in a blast furnace?

the Coke supplies carbon monoxide to reduce the ore in a blast furnace and supplies heat to melt the iron.


When iron ore is heated in a blast furnace the products are pure iron and carbon dioxide?

Yes because it becomes iron oxide this is true.


Why can't aluminium be extracted from aluminium ore using a blast furnace?

Because it is more reactive then carbon to be extracted in a blast furnace. Remember carbon is the reducing agent and for it to work the metal being extracted has to be lower in the reactivity series, e.g. iron


Why is iron from the blast furnace hard and brittle?

Due to the high carbon.


Extraction of lead from galena by heating process?

First: Roast the Galena in a blast furnace for 30 minuets. Second: Add Carbon to the blast furnace to remove impurities. Third: Tag off your lead from the bottom of the blast furnace.


Describe the smelting of iron ore?

You put the ore in the furnace.. Its a bar.. Woooo you produce carbon dioxide and molten iron pour off molten iron mix with limestone and coal and last place with blast furnace


What is the purpose of limestone in the blast furnace?

The limestone decomposes to quicklime and carbon dioxide, and the quicklime removes acidic impurities (eg SiO2). So basically limestone is to remove impurities


What is the waste gas in the Blast Furnace used for?

It is mostly carbon monoxide and nitrogen gases which has some heating value. So it is typically recovered and mixed with natural gas, &/or coke oven gas and used in boilers for steam or other steel heating furnaces for further processing of steel.