electric arc furnace (eaf)
Electric Arc Furnaces is a modern metallurgical furnace uses an electric arc generated between two electrodes to melt scrap metal or raw materials. This is one of the highly efficient processes in steelmaking and other alloy metallurgies for recycling metals in a controlled environment.
Key Features:
- High Efficiency Melting Process: Electric arcs produce metal melting at high temperature within a very short time, making traditional fuel consumption less for melting.
- Recyclable Material Usage: This furnace melts scrap metal primarily; thus, metal recycling serves sustainable manufacturing.
- Temperature Control: It allows accurate control over melting conditions for generating parts of high-quality steel and other alloys.
Modern steelmaking is made possible through this new electric arc furnace, which will quickly and flexibly melt steel and alloys and is environmentally friendly. They are used all over the world, from mini-mills to large production plants, for making construction steel, special alloys, and stainless steels. EAFs offer a considerable contribution towards sustainability in metals production because they use highly recycled raw materials and produce lower carbon emissions as compared with blast furnaces.