Meaning of blast-furnace gas | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The utilization of blast-furnace gas was adopted by the French engineers, Thomas and Laurens, as early as 1828; […]”

“Over the past 50 years, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has been developing “significant expertise” in designing turbines that can operate with fuels with from 5 to 90 percent hydrogen content. Often, these fuels have been refinery off-gas, blast-furnace gas and syngas produced from gasification.”

“This uses calcium extracted from slag (a traditional waste product) and combines it with CO₂ captured from blast-furnace gas to make high-quality calcium carbonate, which the startup plans to sell as a food ingredient.”

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