Gayley process
Gayley process proper noun: the process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapour in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.
Proper noun
Gayley process
- The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapour in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.
Origin of Gayley process
Named after US metallurgist James Gayley.
Questions about Gayley process
- What does Gayley process mean?
- Gayley process means the process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapour in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.
- What part of speech is Gayley process?
- Gayley process is a proper noun.
Words near Gayley process in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Gayley process (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Gayley process.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gayley_process. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.