Smelting assembly for the production of steel

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11549156
APP PUB NO 20210040573A1
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16978378

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An improved apparatus for producing steel, including a lower furnace, an annular, water-cooled, fireproof lined cylindrical upper furnace, on which an upwardly closing conically tapering hat having openings can be placed. The smelting assembly is configured for the operational mode without melt flow and the operational mode with melt flow. To this end, at least one opening is provided in the conical furnace cover, through which opening at least one top lance can be introduced into the upper furnace. A plurality of sidewall injectors radially rotate around the cylindrical upper furnace in such a way that in a working position, the top lance and the sidewall injectors are directed onto a smelt level of a molten mass located in the lower furnace for refining.

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SMS GROUP GMBHEDUARD-SCHLOEMANN-STRASSE 4 DUESSELDORF D-40237

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Henkel, Thomas Duisburg, DE 40 288
Odenthal, Hans-Jürgen Mettmann, DE 10 1
Schüring, Andreas Mülheim, DE 3 0
Starke, Peter Duisburg, DE 17 35

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