Future High-Temperature Electric Furnace Steelmaking Process Analysis

The future is scrap steel. In the field of long steel products for construction (rebar, round steel, wire rod, etc.), the high-temperature electric furnace steelmaking process will gradually replace the blast furnace-converter process.

2. Electric furnaces will replace the blast furnace-converter process in the general-purpose medium plate manufacturing field.

The fully functional steel electric furnace will be combined with the near-continuous casting-casting and rolling process, with a production scale of 1.8 million to 2.4 million tons per year, primarily producing thin gauge, high-strength hot-rolled products.

The electric furnace will continue to be combined with the seamless steel tube mill for production.

The electric furnace will be combined with structural alloy steel long products for production.

6. Electric furnaces are suitable for producing high-quality forgings.

7. Electric furnaces can be used for the production of stainless steel (sheet, long products) through the back-forging method.

8. Electric furnace steel mills can be strategically located in the outskirts of large and medium-sized cities, in heavy industry urban agglomerations (parks), or in inland regions.

9. The electric furnace steel mill must have a secondary processing and sorting site for scrap steel, along with necessary processing and sorting facilities for scrap steel. Abolish the lid-opening and feeding type electric furnace. The full scrap steel electric furnace process is relatively easy to achieve full-process intelligent operation, and should be demonstrated and explored on the basis of new electric furnace plants.