silicon for the chemical and solar industry XIII

Figure 4.

Inefficient cutting using standard lance

In contrast, thanks to their close to perfect steel/oxygen balance, the new advanced

lances can keep being ignited without the need to bounce the oxygen through the

lance against a surface. This will focus the energy forward and coaxially to the lance,

concentrating the lance power against the target material (see Figure 5).

Figure 5.

Efficient cutting using advanced lance

As previously stated, the standard oxygen pipe works only when the oxygen bounces,

and it will ignite at random points behind the tip, sometimes several inches back. This

random and unstable pipe burning causes energy loss, since a great deal of energy is