Non-Chemical How hot does a furnace need to be to melt the ceramic in CC?

[Oz]

OK, I tried to take the easy way out.

Sulfur is indeed damaging to iron but I had good low sulfur bituminous for forge work. Try to forge weld with the sulfur there. When you go to coke it to work, it is hard to not see it's presence. My best guess would be that it was the rate that the carbon monoxide was given off relative the the heat energy produced for each fuel. The porous nature of wood coal I would think only can help in its rapid consumption, a bad thing in forge work.

I had a half page typed that was more to Harold than the forum and refining, therefor if someone here is “real” interested I will continue it. But otherwise Harold and I should probably take this off forum.

Ps; it is far easier to fire a forge with wet bituminous that wet wood coal. It is like the difference between rocks and a sponge.

 

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know of a manufacturer who builds and sells entire plasma arc hardware technology for extraction of PM's? It needs to be a continuous process, able to handle tons of material a day.

Thanks for any help.

I"m working on building a blast furnace for melting and alloying steel for knifemaking, and will need about 1700C out of it to do what I want with it.... I can run it up to about 1850C if I need to...
So, the other day, I was wondering if the same blast furnace could be used to melt down stuff like gold and silver bearing e-waste, and Catalytic converters for the PM content. So, I was wondering how hot it would need to melt down the CC matrix?? I can easily melt it with oxy acetalyne...
I have a fair amount of access to E-waste, and older stuff at that, and was thinking that a 30# crucible, or 50# crucible would allow me to stuff a whole mobos in, and just let it all melt, and the plastic burn off. At that kind of heat, I don't think the Plastic will give off that many fumes...

 

[Lou]

Sadly Qasar,

If you have to ask....

 

[plasmasmelter]

Does anyone know of a manufacturer who builds and sells entire plasma arc hardware technology for extraction of PM's? It needs to be a continuous process, able to handle tons of material a day.

Thanks for any help.

I"m working on building a blast furnace for melting and alloying steel for knifemaking, and will need about 1700C out of it to do what I want with it.... I can run it up to about 1850C if I need to...
So, the other day, I was wondering if the same blast furnace could be used to melt down stuff like gold and silver bearing e-waste, and Catalytic converters for the PM content. So, I was wondering how hot it would need to melt down the CC matrix?? I can easily melt it with oxy acetalyne...
I have a fair amount of access to E-waste, and older stuff at that, and was thinking that a 30# crucible, or 50# crucible would allow me to stuff a whole mobos in, and just let it all melt, and the plastic burn off. At that kind of heat, I don't think the Plastic will give off that many fumes...

Qasar,

Contact me to discuss plasma arc systems for PM smelting.

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