Furnace

Name:
Furnace
Detailed information:
An enclosed chamber or structure lined with firebrick or similar refractory and containing a heat source (coal, coke, gas, or electric elements). It may have various designs depending on its function. Furnaces are used for steel production (open-hearth and basic oxygen types), for smelting iron and other ores (blast furnace) and for manufacture of furnace carbon black, etc. Electric furnaces are used for special types of steel, as well as for high-temperature reactions such as the manufacture of pyrolytic graphite, synthetic diamonds, silicon, silicon carbide, and salt cake. Temperatures obtained range up to 3000C. Laboratory electric furnaces are used for high-temperature experiments and product testing.See Muffle Furnace; Reverberatory Furnace; Mannheim Furnace; Kiln; Forge; Cupola.