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Bessemer Process (The Converter (The converter was a large, pear-shaped…
Bessemer Process
The Converter
The converter was a large, pear-shaped receptacle
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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas
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Welshman Sidney Gilchrist Thomas discovered that by adding a basic material such as limestone to the Bessemer converter drew the phosphorus from the pig iron into the slag
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William Kelly
idea that, in the refining process, fuel would be unnecessary after the iron was melted if powerful blasts of air were forced into the fluid metal.
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William Kelly (1811 - 1888), the owner of an iron-works at Eddyville, Kentucky started to experiment in processes for converting iron into steel.
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Henry Bessemer
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Steel was the obvious choice of metal to replace cast iron but it was expensive to produce - until he developed the Bessemer Process
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The Phosphorus Problem
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steel excessively brittle and the initial Bessemer process could only be used on pig iron made from phosphorus-free ores
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