Iron Ore an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Iron ore is reduced in an iron blast furnace, which is a continuouslyoperating countercurrent vertical retort in which the solid burden, charged at the top, moves down and the gas, introduced at the bottom, moves up. The internal structure of a large blast furnace is shown in Fig. charge is introduced to the furnace as alternating layers of coke, ore pellets, and flux and the region