Commodity Production Costs
Calcium Carbide from Limestone (Electrothermic Process)
This report examines the costs related to Calcium Carbide production process from limestone and coke in the United States, using a typical electric arc furnace process. In the process, limestone is calcinated to lime, which reacts with coke in an electric arc furnace, producing calcium carbide.
Commodity Production Costs
Calcium Carbide from Limestone (Oxy-Thermal Process)
This study approaches the economics of Calcium Carbide production from limestone and coke in the United States via a oxy-thermal process. This process is based on the combustion of the carbonaceous material with oxygen in the presence of lime (generated by calcination of limestone raw material).