My Eighth Edition (1964) covers it just a little (it has more pages on bessemer process). They are both in the same chapter called Pneumatic Processes. Steve...
Out of the 1000+ page seventh edition there is 3/4 of a page devoted to the BOF process. When my fifth edition was published the only thing we were blowing...
Basic Oxygen steel refining was developed by Voest Alpine in 1952. It didn't appear in North America until much later. It is unlikely that it would appear in...
... It was originally known as the "Linz-Donawitz (LD) process" after Voest Alpine's two main steel works in Austria. Brian Rumary, England www.rumary.co.uk...
VAI is now part of Seimens and they still refer to the BOF vessels as LD Converters. http://www.industry.siemens.com/metals-mining/en/Steelmaking/default.htm ...