A portion of material separated out based on a specific characteristic: particle or grain size (in screen analysis) and density (in gravity concentration).
A furnace’s lowest part where fuel combustion and liquid metal accumulation take place.
A glossary term is a word, concept, or name that provides explanation for those who do not know its meaning.
A conventionally accepted ferroalloy variety’s designation, consisting of alphabetical and numerical symbols; alphabetical symbols indicating the alloy elements, while numerical ones indicating their mass fraction.
A mechanism whose tractive force passed by a rope, chain, cable, or other flexible element from a driving drum. A traction device that pulls a rope, chain, or cable.
Chemical elements or compounds introduced into the alloy as technological additives or charge components.
Protective inner lining of units (furnaces, combustion chambers, ladles, flues, pipes, etc.) and their parts, as well as baths. Usually made of refractory material (bricks, slabs, blocks, concrete, ramming and gunning mixes).
A supporting cylinder that provides electrode’s suspension (clamping) and movement, made of a 10-16mm steel sheet, whose diameter exceeds the electrode’s diameter by 150-200mm, with an above fan suppling air into the gap.
The stated tonnage of molten metal in the ladle obtained by melting in the furnace or the melting time required to obtain such a tonnage.