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arc furnace

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arc furnace
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(Engineering / Metallurgy) a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc


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Each of the six ladles of steel was melted in a single, 95-ton electric arc furnace and then subsequently treated and kept hot in rotation in either the vacuum arc degassing unit or the similar vacuum oxygen decarburization unit," Marston said.
From 1998 to 2004, the editors of this publication put together a Ferrous Scrap Flow Map each year that attempted to list the highest-volume electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mills in North America.
Melting occurs in a twinshell water-cooled electric arc furnace, in which carbon and phosphorus contents are reduced to stipulated levels.
 
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