Both the Basic Oxygen Process (BOP) and the quality of produced stainless steel can be improved through the application of process mass spectrometry.

Indeed, throughout the 1950s, as Europe’s steel-makers built new factories around the basic-oxygen process and simultaneously demolished its remaining open-hearth furnaces, Big Steel made ...

All around him are dozens of massive industrial buildings that house blast furnaces, a slab caster, two top-blown basic oxygen process vessels, a vacuum degasser, and a ladle metallurgy facility.

He has been a steelworker for the better part of his life, nearly 34 years. He works in the plant’s basic oxygen process shop or “BOP shop,” as it’s called, where scrap stee… ...

Zayas was employed at U.S. Steel’s Lorain Works as a ladle liner in the basic oxygen process shop, retiring in 1985 after 36 years.

Indeed, throughout the 1950s, as Europe’s steelmakers built new factories around the basic-oxygen process and simultaneously demolished its remaining open-hearth furnaces, Big Steel made endless ...