Talk:Cold blast

Cold blast (air)

The page is about an older type of furnace called cold blast because it uses cold air. But in a (hot) blast furnace today, cold blast is still produced, to be heated (Cowper) into hot blast, then fed into the furnace. There is therefore a modern use of the phrase “cold blast” besides the one considered in this page. Siemens is advertising a “Blast Furnace Blower House” as “a facility (building) for providing cold blast”. In my view, the page is unduly restrictive about the use of “cold blast”. (I did operate such blowers in a former life, between 1979 and 1985. In French, we said “vent froid”, literally “cold wind”.)

The page should begin about cold blast in general in the meaning of cold air provided to a furnace in big quantity, under sufficient pressure. Then mention that it was earlier used cold, so that such furnaces may be named cold blast. But today, et cetera. -- Dominique Meeùs (talk) 18:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.

If you mean merging hot blast and cold blast, so that the two types are described as two sections in the same article, then I would support that – it might be easier for our readers to understand them, when presented together.

If you mean keeping cold blast as an article, but splitting the article into "cold blast" (delivered cold) and "cold blast" (that is generated cold, through blowers running cold, but which is then heated through Cowper stoves), then I'd see that as quite confusing to readers. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:13, 26 January 2013 (UTC)