comprehensive range of industrial gases and cost-efficient technologies
air products' expertise, gases, supply modes and technologies combine to provide ferrous and non-ferrous metals producers a wide range of operational capabilities and process efficiency improvements, from primary production and refining to secondary recovery and processing, that can result in significant benefits including:
- increased yield
- increased productivity
- increased fuel efficiency
- reduced emissions
- lower operating costs
gases
argon
argon, an inert gas, is commonly used in applications across metals production operations to improve quality, and increase efficiency and yield.
hydrogen
valued for its reactive and protective properties, and used by many industries such as electronics, foods, glass, chemicals, refining and more can benefit from its unique properties to improve quality, optimize performance and reduce costs.
nitrogen
nitrogen is routinely used in applications across foundries, integrated and mini mills, specialty/stainless, and non-ferrous metals production operations.
oxygen
oxygen can improve combustion through increased heat transfer, higher flame temperatures, and reduced volume of fuel gases in metals production operations.
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resource center
literature
- high-yield oxy-fuel burner
- industrial gases and advanced technologies for non-ferrous mining and refining
- transient heating oxy-fuel burner, featuring process intelligence
- tunable enrichment air-oxy-fuel burner
- molten metal blanketing technologies
- advanced clean energy laboratory
- cupola oxy-fuel system reduces emissions while cutting fuel and alloy costs
technical articles
- customized combustion solution yields productivity improvement for aluminum extruder
- effective use of oxy-fuel combustion in aluminum reverberatory furnaces, light metal age
- combustion technologies improve melting furnace productivity, industrial heating
- enhanced direct reduced iron (dri) for use in electric steelmaking
- novel method for stirring bof melts in conjunction with slag splashing