Glossary
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Hot Idling
Steel
Hot idling is a procedure which temporarily maintains a furnace on standby without producing any iron. To slow the combustion and maintain the refractory lining, the amount of air which enters the furnace is significantly reduced. The main chamber is kept fully charged with coke (but not with limestone and iron ore, the two other bulk ingredients for iron making). Blast furnaces are not usually hot idled for more than a few weeks unless all the iron is completely drained from the furnace, and they can be returned to full iron making capacity within a matter of days.
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