Ladle Furnace

With a ladle furnace liquid steel can be heated, alloyed and desulphurised under an inert gas atmosphere. The essential homogenisation is achieved with inert gas stirring.

Another purpose of the ladle furnace is to act as a holding furnace between primary melting unit and the continuous casting machine.

Advantages:

• Increasing the productivity of the primary melting unit.
• Lowering of the tap temperature.
• Reduction in the necessity to reblow in converter.
• Avoiding re-cycling of ladles.
• Achieving narrow composition tolerances.
• Low total oxygen content.
• Efficient desulphurisation.
• Precise temperature adjustment.
• Possible modifications include:
• Wire feeding.
• Powder injection