Application of Water-Cooling Method to the Oxygen Converter

Study on a permanent-wall-type furnace with compulsory cooling-V

Abstract

In previous reports, the authors reported the investigation on the permanent-wall-type furnace with compulsory cooling, and many advantages of this method confirmed through the experimental work.
Based on this investigation a new type of oxygen converter with all water cooling wall was designed and installed to estimate the possible applications of this method.The results obtained were as follows: Application of water cooling method to the protection of all lining walls of oxygen converter was very effective and a permanent refractory layer formed by the slag at the surface of cooling plate was obtained under violent action of the streams of molten metal, slag and gas. As this lining was retained permanently during the blow, the operation was performed with great uniformity.