In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 8 May 2019 19:09:40 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Those mass factors were covered in this analysts as follows: > >Quartz (33.4 ton), charcoal (with fixed carbon content of 13.2 >ton) and scrap steel (5.1 ton) while the daily output production of FeSi >alloy (73.5% Si) was 24.75 ton. From the total weights >of Si and Fe in the input feed and assuming 100% recovery of the metals, >the daily output alloy production could at best have >been only 20.5 ton.
That's assuming that the only thing in the output was Fe-Si. If CO was also included then 24.75 is quite reasonable. (Note that when the output product was chemically analyzed, the CO from the sample may well have simply disappeared into the air, as a consequence of the process used to analyze the sample.) Note also that the total input mass = 51.7 tons. >However to our surprise throughout the 11-week period >the total daily FeSi alloy (with 73.5% Si) output was >consistently 24.75 ton, corresponding to a daily anomalous excess metal >production of 4.25 ton of FeSi alloy. Consistency would imply a fixed ratio, which in turn seems to imply a chemical bond with fixed ratios. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pentacarbonyl by which I don't mean to imply that that was the precise chemical involved, but rather only to show that CO has an affinity for Fe. Furthermore as evidenced by https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571066, it also has an affinity for Si. Therefore I think my suggestion may well be reasonable, and furthermore seems to fit the facts a lot better than other suggestions so far. BTW, CO is dangerous for humans to inhale precisely because the CO molecule binds with the Fe in hemoglobin, preventing the hemoglobin from binding to Oxygen, which in turn results in suffocation. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk local asymmetry = temporary success
