The steel industry today is faced with rising costs in every phase of production. The capital cost of a blast-furnace complete with coking ovens and all other raw material facilities is in the order of $40 million and up. In addition, each ton of raw material delivered to the blast-furnace carries the cost of removal from the pit or mine, plus the high cost of transportation by boat or by rail. Packard (1) reports that the United States steel companies spend nearly $20 million in research annually, for two main reasons.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112838 |
| Date | January 1960 |
| Creators | Jones, Peter. E. |
| Contributors | MacEwan, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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