Abstract
THE construction of furnaces for metallurgical purposes has been guided in general by rule of thumb, practical experience having shown a particular furnace to work well, and a similar design being adopted in new plant, without any established principles to serve as a guide to the designer. In 1911 there appeared an important work in Russian, by Prof. Groume-Grjimailo, in which an attempt was made to place the subject on a scientific basis. Being translated into French in 1914, and introduced to the French public by Prof. Le Chatelier, this novel treatise attracted much attention, and it has now been made available, in an extended form, to the English-speaking world. It should be studied with care wherever furnaces are used. The loss of heat in most metallurgical furnaces is large, and economies in this direction are of great importance in the improvement of industry, especially in view of the great increase in the cost of fuel.
The Flow of Gases in Furnaces.
By Prof. W.—E. Groume-Grjimailo. Translated from Russian into French by Leon Dlougatch and A. Rothstein. Translated from the French by A. D. Williams. With an Appendix upon the Design of Open-Hearth Furnaces. Pp. xxi + 399. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1923.) 27s. 6d. net.
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D., C. Metallurgical Furnaces. Nature 112, 755–756 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112755a0
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