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All right so it might be a poor furnace fuel to become a fuel... but why can't this be used as a carbon source for steelmaking?[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 10:31, 5 July 2008 (EDT) | All right so it might be a poor furnace fuel to become a fuel... but why can't this be used as a carbon source for steelmaking?[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 10:31, 5 July 2008 (EDT) | ||
| − | :Because a flux also | + | :Because a flux should also absorb the impurities in the metal or alloy you want to refine. Graphite can't. I think. --[[User:Cptnemo01|Cptnemo01]] 15:21, 5 July 2008 (EDT) |
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| + | ::The suggestion is to use it as a carbon source in place of charcoal or coke, rather than as a flux. In terms of real-life chemistry I don't see why this shouldn't be possible, but in DF you might need to be able to turn the graphite into bars (as is done with coal) before it can be used in the process. [[User:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]] 04:40, 6 July 2008 (EDT) | ||
| + | :::I think they turn coal into graphite well before it gets anywhere near BHP's steel refineries. Steel mills are still often in towns and they are already unpopular - how much worse would it be if steel mills also released sulphur dioxide (there isn't much coal that doesn't have sulpher in it AFAIK).[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 23:34, 6 July 2008 (EDT) | ||
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All right so it might be a poor furnace fuel to become a fuel... but why can't this be used as a carbon source for steelmaking?GarrieIrons 10:31, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
- Because a flux should also absorb the impurities in the metal or alloy you want to refine. Graphite can't. I think. --Cptnemo01 15:21, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
- The suggestion is to use it as a carbon source in place of charcoal or coke, rather than as a flux. In terms of real-life chemistry I don't see why this shouldn't be possible, but in DF you might need to be able to turn the graphite into bars (as is done with coal) before it can be used in the process. Bryan Derksen 04:40, 6 July 2008 (EDT)
- I think they turn coal into graphite well before it gets anywhere near BHP's steel refineries. Steel mills are still often in towns and they are already unpopular - how much worse would it be if steel mills also released sulphur dioxide (there isn't much coal that doesn't have sulpher in it AFAIK).GarrieIrons 23:34, 6 July 2008 (EDT)
- The suggestion is to use it as a carbon source in place of charcoal or coke, rather than as a flux. In terms of real-life chemistry I don't see why this shouldn't be possible, but in DF you might need to be able to turn the graphite into bars (as is done with coal) before it can be used in the process. Bryan Derksen 04:40, 6 July 2008 (EDT)