How STEEL is Made - From Dirt to Molten Metal
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Steel has long been a vital building block of civilization, providing strength and durability to structures and tools for thousands of years. This fundamental metal alloy has become integral to modern infrastructure and technology, with ancient forging methods still prized for their ability to produce steel of unparalleled quality and resilience.
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Join us on an illuminating journey into the realm of steel production. In this video series, we delve into the fascinating process of steel's transformation from raw iron ore to versatile construction material. We’ll explore time-honored techniques still used in remote foundries as well as the advanced technology powering modern steel manufacturing.
Each episode offers captivating insight into the unique processes that convert ordinary natural resources into essentials that form the backbone of the modern world. From the art of traditional iron smelting to the mechanics of immense integrated steelworks, we reveal the ingenuity and effort required to create the sturdy metal compounds used in almost everything that surrounds us.
For engineers, builders, and those curious about the ordinary objects that shape our lives, our channel provides an engaging combination of educational and entertaining content about the materials you rely on daily but seldom contemplate.
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Great, well produced video! very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback :)
He does that so you will comment
The steel plant I worked at used scrap steel in place of the coke coal. It was easier to control the content in the furnace
Cool! Maybe I should make an extended version and include more about that
Coke is used in iron making.
Scrap steel is used in steel making.
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steel is basically iron and nickle :-\ not to hard... its tungsten when ya start getting really dangerous, so max is only 1 ton at a time..3422 degree's ...
@@mephInccoke is the fuel. Scrap steel isn't fuel.
the mouse click sound, is unnecessary and hit balls.....
Thanks for the feedback! Have already made sure to step down in this in layer videos :)
Good video for learning about how the world works and how some people progressed. Its awsome to think that from nothing, literally from the ground up, we create things like cars. thanks for the video,
Happy you liked it! ❤️ 👍
Dude I cannot handle the mouse clicking. I genuinely want to watch this video but had to bow out.
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This guys voice is on everthing Im watching lately
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Thank you very much for your explanation ! 👍
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Only gripe is the clicks mouse clicks
Thanks for the feedback. I already adjusted (removed) this from future videos :)
@@Factorama_eng I wouldn't say to remove them completely. They can be used as an infrequent accent for major separation points in the script instead of using it for almost every single transition, text and video effect. I'm barely two minutes in and found the very high frequency annoying, distracting from the content and is ultimately what made me stop the video. There's only a few spots where it should have been used, from what little I could watch. :07, :26, :51, 1:04, 1:09, 1:38, 1:56. Only seven clicks needed at most. I can't put myself through watching the rest
@@snacksmoto2351 great comment, thanks a lot :)
Great video & well written. Would love if you did an in depth video on EAF. Also what do you think of Tata closing down their plant in Britain?
Thanks for the feedback! Will put EAF on my list :)
It's a real shame about Tata Steel. A lot of good workers will be affected.
They (Tata) more than likely have new plants in India and China to replace the production rate of Britain at much cheaper labor rates. Same old story. Tata, doesn't fk around.
business gonna do business i guess..
Steel was most certanly not the backbone of civilizations for over 4000 years. The stuff discussed in this video all comes from the early 1900s.
I was rounding up
Lmao. When he said it, I was like uhhhh…that doesn’t sound right at all.
mid 1st millennium BC they started making high carbon steel yup...for over 9000 years now lol.. and it very well triggered the beginning of metal, from skyscrapers to trains and transit
Steel has been used since 13th century.
@@doggygaming950So I guess the Iron Age never happened, and the Romans conquered much of the known world using the gladius made of ... paper mache?
I wanted to watch this but the incessant mouse clicking sound effect is very annoying and distracting. Couldn't last two minutes.
sorry to hear, thank for commenting though!
can we generate power during cooling process by sending steam(produced during cooling by water) in one path? or can we cool the iron/steel by air like nitrogen quenching? is temperature not enough or some other reason?
Can I cook chapathi in this fire
Not really possible to direct the steam properly. It would also not be worth the effort. The rollers in a caster have to be replaced periodically. If you put some hull around of all that it would be a maintenance nightmare while not generating much energy in the first place.
Cooling with nitrogen is not possible. You don‘t want to cool the steel too much. On most machines you only cool the very outside while having a liquid core. That allows the steel to be bend in a 90 degree angle within the roller segments. Keep in mind that the steel is poured in the mold vertically but in the end the products should run out of the machine horizontally.
awesome, seems like a lot of chemistry is involved .
Oh, for sure! Thanks for the comment 👍
So good 🎉
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you need one iron ore and 2 coal then find a furnace to smelt them into steel bar
Haha, finally a real steel expert in the comment section! 😂🧠
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Good stuff
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A MUST WATCH!!!!
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good content
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Just got reminded of the final scene of Terminator 2 🤖
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
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Very interesting, well produced.
Thank you, David! Stay tuned for more, and feel free to let me know if you have any topic ideas!
The riddle of steel!
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I want to hear Dracula narrate this.
Haha 😂
Very interesting video. Thank you.
But PLEASE turn off the super annoying music.
No music needed at all.
Thanks again
Thanks for the comment and the feedback!
This video either used an actual human reading the script, or one of the best TTS applications I've ever heard. I didn't detect a single mispronunciation.
You missed the proper pronunciation of proper. Unless prow-per is the proper pronunciation of proper
this AI voice is all over the internet
First ten seconds has already confused iron with steel.
Thanks for the comment! How exactly, I'm curious!
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Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with other elements sometimes added. Steel wasn’t widely manufactured and used until the 19th century.
Decent enough video. @7:41 The word PLATING is spelled incorrectly.
Thanks for the engagement, Joe! Cheers
And then once the steel ingots are made from this, the Japanese take the ingots and make Japanese Katanas the ‘tradition way’.
Where’s the vid for swords made from Colette scratch 😂
Damn mouse clicks
thanks for the comment! try one of our other videos, we removed them thanks to all you amazing people sharing feedback! :)
Why not use an electric arc furnace to recycle steel? It can then be processed to achieve various grades of steel..
Very good point! Should have included that too..
I'm pretty sure that was mentioned.
Scrap steel is used in all steel making processes from EAF to BOF
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Where my Osrs dudes at?
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The oldest Iron mine is an Swaziland Southern Africa please dont lie
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Steel utilization is only 2 thousand years.
That's disappointingly low! 😜
Steel utilization in quantity is less than 166 years.
Explanation and video doesn't match in most of the initial stretch of video
❤it is good us if you show type of steel God bless!
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The constant loud mouse click sound made me turn off the video 60 seconds in.
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0:15 "skyscrappers"?
oh uh trains? aircraft, vehicles, uh.... ? :-)
Don't forget the "Appa-latchin" mountains.
Yes concrete reinforcement
@@tokelosellosrailwaychanel3208 i was pointing out the misspelling of "skyscrapers"
Why would you show a basic oxygen furnace (making steel) to represent a coke oven?
Then you show a bof and electric furnace to represent a blast furnace...
At least do your research
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well a blast furnace is electric but uh.... lol I think he to lazy to build the stuff to show it lol
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A blast furnace is not electric, hence "blast". It uses super heated air blown into the bottom to melt raw materials whereas an electric furnace is open to the atmosphere and electrodes to arc and melt scrap steel and some raw materials. An electric furnace might make a couple thousand tons of steel a day. A blast furnace can make upwards of 14,000 tons of iron a day.
Don't run your mouth of you don't know what you're saying.
Brokkr and eitri aproves
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Got tired of all the clicking... Had to escape.
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Who was the first person to even think of this shit😂
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Well, that was a bad start. Steel for 4,000years?
The earliest known production of steel is seen in pieces of ironware excavated from an archaeological site in Anatolia (Kaman-Kalehöyük) which are nearly 4,000 years old.
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Too bad they can't harness the residual heat to power electric turbines
Not sure about this topic, but residual heat can definitely be used for heating homes
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Top many mouse clicks
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Literally couldn’t watch because of the mouse sounds. Not only are they annoying, but they’re placed in the most random point of the video……
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Coke good with pizza
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Steel is made from "dirt"...?
Haha, fair point, Frank! It just sounded good when I wrote the title. What would you call it?
Ore? A special kind of "dirt"
Pebbles and ancient trees
Technically, before it was developed that's all it was, rocks and dirt.
@@Factorama_eng it's iron ore.
This AI narration is terrible. Im out in second 0:10
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How did they made swords 3000 bc ?
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