出典:Wiktionary
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/15 12:45 UTC 版)
Hot blast refers to the preheating of air blown into a blast furnace or other metallurgical process. This has the result of considerably reducing the fuel consumed in the process. This was invented and patented for iron furnaces by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828 at Wilsontown Ironworks in Scotland, but was later applied in other contexts, including late bloomeries.