Medium voltage switchgear application guide
Medium voltage switchgear application guide
Medium voltage switchgear application guide
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<strong>Medium</strong> <strong>voltage</strong> <strong>switchgear</strong> <strong>application</strong> <strong>guide</strong><br />
Appendix 6: alternating<br />
current melting arc<br />
furnaces<br />
1 - MELTING PROCESS<br />
Arc furnace operating principle<br />
The operations standard including processing scrap cycle metal of loading, an arc furnace melting, comprises liquid steel a refining series ofand<br />
casting.<br />
alternating current melting arc furnace<br />
scrap metal<br />
loading<br />
melting<br />
liquid bath<br />
refining<br />
casting of liquid<br />
steel in ladles<br />
and inter-casting<br />
intermediary<br />
reloading<br />
furnace ■scrap is metal stopped. loading For and a single intermediary processing loading cycle, is carried two or three out when basket the<br />
loads ■scrap are metal required.<br />
part of the energy melting is consumed. during which the solid load is liquefied and the main<br />
■liquid bath steel refining casting which in ladles only involves requires the thermal furnace loss tipping compensation.<br />
metal is poured from the furnace into the ladles and the time so needed that the for liquid<br />
furnace to return to its original position. the<br />
The ■frequent scrap metal arcing melting and arc period suppression is characterised at the beginning by:<br />
■strong current variations caused by arc displacement of during each the basket,<br />
period,<br />
melting<br />
■short-circuits, generated by the metal as it collapses.<br />
2 - OPERATING FREQUENCY<br />
The number of casts per day furnace: depends 13 on casts the type per of day. furnace.<br />
■furnace with refining in the ladle furnace: 22 casts per day.<br />
date<br />
11/94<br />
- B•3•2 -<br />
revised<br />
05/2004<br />
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