Electric steelmaking: recent trends and future constraints

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5619101

Burwell, C C

The growth of electric steelmaking in recent years is reviewed. Initially electric melting of surplus scrap complmented the shift from the use of the open hearth process to the more productive basic oxygen process with its more limited capability to remelt scrap. More recently, because of high production and energy efficiency characteristics, production in electric mills continued to grow even as production in basic oxygen furnaces declined. As a result, there is an increasing use of old scrap in steel products. The national inventory of scrap is considered, and processing technologies needed to improve scrap quality are discussed.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Inc., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00033
• OSTI ID: 5619101
• Report Number(s): ORAU/IEA-83-9(M); ON: DE84002482
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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