METHOD OF CONTINUOUS STEEL SMELTING AND UNIT FOR ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: ferrous metallurgy. SUBSTANCE: the unit may be positioned in the existing open-hearth plant with employment of the available production equipment. The movable hearth of the steel-making unit has a number of successively extending bath, in which production operations with isolated amounts of metal are accomplished in a conveyer succession, and flue gases move from the "hotter" zone to the "colder" one. A large amount (up to 100%) of large-sized scrap can be processed in the unit at a capacity exceeding the converter capacity. EFFECT: facilitated procedure. 2 cl, 3 dwg