bessemer process in English

noun
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a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort (a Bessemer converter ).
For example, in 1850 the steel making industry was drastically changed by the Bessemer process which burned out impurities in iron through the use of a blast furnace.

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1. 1855: Bessemer process enables steel to be mass-produced.

2. Bessemer definition, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process

3. It was made using the Bessemer process from the 19th century.

4. Did you sell him a bayonet made with the Bessemer process?

5. The Bessemer Process, invented in England in 1856, was the first large-scale steelmaking process.

6. The Bessemer process for steel manufacture produced too many imperfections for large-scale use on ships.

7. Its owners would later produce the first Bessemer process steel in the United States after the war.

8. The exposition also introduced the use of caoutchouc for rubber production and the Bessemer process for steel manufacture.

9. It was much used in conjunction with the Bessemer process both to introduce carbon and manganese, and also to reduce impurities.

10. Bessemer process definition, a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron

11. Zapp had previously studied iron metallurgy and the Bessemer process in England and now used his know-how for the production of special steel.

12. Steel is still produced using technology based upon the Bessemer Process of blowing air through molten pig iron to oxidise the material and separate impurities.

13. Upon his return, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave him a sum of 50,000 Swedish crowns for financing steel production using the Bessemer process.

14. British and American inventors kept improving on the Bessemer process until the 20th century, when the Siemens-Martin process, which used electrically heated furnaces, became predominant.

15. The invention of plate glass and the Bessemer process allowed for glass to be used in larger segments, to support more structural loads, and to be produced at larger scales.

16. He was the founder of the company Sandvikens Jernverks AB (now called Sandvik AB) and was the first person to implement the Bessemer process successfully on an industrial scale.

17. The Bessemer process was so fast (10–20 minutes for a heat) that it allowed little time for chemical analysis or adjustment of the alloying elements in the steel.

18. The Bessemer process reduced the time needed to make steel of this quality to about half an hour while requiring only the coke needed initially to melt the pig iron.

19. John M. Hollway (1841 – 1907) was an English metallurgist and chemist who, in the 1870s, unsuccessfully tried out smelting and refining of copper using a converter based on the Bessemer process.

20. The possibilities have been investigated for determining the refining end of the basic Bessemer process, as used for steel making, by monitoring spectrochemically the manganese and iron content of the blowing dust.

21. Starting in January 1855 he began working on a way to produce steel in the massive quantities required for artillery and by October he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process.

22. The introduction of the Bessemer process, beginning in the late 1850s, heralded the age of mass-produced steel and modern industrial manufacturing technologies, and with it the irreversible decline and eventual demise of blacksmithing.

23. Inspired by the Bessemer process, it consists of the use of a converter to oxidise with air the undesirable chemical elements (mainly iron and sulfur) contained in the matte, to transform it into copper.

24. The Bessemer process revolutionized steel manufacture by decreasing its cost, from £40 per long ton to £6–7 per long ton, along with greatly increasing the scale and speed of production of this vital raw material.

25. Whereas there have occurred corresponding changes in the quantities of steel produced by the various processes and in particular there has been a rapid advance of the pure oxygen processes and a diminished use of the Bessemer process;

26. Göransson in Sweden — Bessemer’s construction of a tiltable, bottom blowing converter — Publications on the Bessemer process — Bessemer steel works 1862 in Essen and Seraing, in Austria 1863 to 1866 — Announcement of all experiences as an important contribution to the spreading of the process