Reading the wear of a blast furnace

Mechanical Engineering | October 1, 2001| | Copyright

Riegl USA in Orlando, Fla., recently partnered with Phoenix Refractory Technologies, an Arizona company that makes equipment for the iron and steel production industries, in order to improve blast furnace repair services by using 3-D digital imaging data.

Riegl USA makes two-dimensional and 3-D noncontact pulsated laser range finders, which determine distance by measuring the time of flight of a light pulse to and from a surface.

A blast furnace chemically reduces and converts iron oxides into liquid iron called "hot metal." The blast furnace is a huge steel stack lined with refractory ...

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