TY - JOUR AU1 - Selin, N. AB - CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF BLAST-FURNACE STOVES AND HOT-BLAST LINE N. I. Selin Dear Editor: I worked in blast-furnace shops from 1924 to 1960 and half of this time as foreman of the gasworks. I would like to share on the pages of your journal my experience with young foremen and gas fitters with respect to certain matters of the operation of blast-furnace stoves. N. I. Selin, former foreman of the gasworks of the blast-furnace shop of the Nizhne-Tagil Metallurgical Combine In the construction of blast-furnace stoves the builders are often still not finished with this work at the time of drying the stoves, and they continue to work on the hot-blast line. In this case the passageway of the hot blast on thecombnstion chamber side should be laid airtight with brick, the tongue of the hot-blast valve should be wedged apart with wooden wedges, and the gap should be caulked with asbestos on the side of the blast line so that gas does not pass into it. Drying of the stoves with coke-oven gas requires close attention, since with its incomplete combustion, soot is deposited on the surface of the checkerwork and wails, and this can lead to an TI - Construction and operation of blast-furnace stoves and hot-blast line JF - Metallurgist DO - 10.1007/BF00733073 DA - 2004-11-18 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/construction-and-operation-of-blast-furnace-stoves-and-hot-blast-line-6byf0sA2eJ SP - 159 EP - 160 VL - 14 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -