Note on recent developments in the Gin electric steel furnace

Gustave Gin
1906 Transactions of the Faraday Society  
The author's canal-type furnace is now installed at the Plettenberg Works (Westphalia). These works were founded by M. Bruninghaus, who is associated with the Deutsche Elektrische Stahlwerke. Figs. I, 2, 3, and 4 show the Plettenberg Works and the furnace, Gin Furnace with Canals and Chambers.-In the furnaces in which the canal is bent upon itself, the narrow cross-section of the canal is not convenient for the introduction of ore or scrap. Moreover, heavy currents at low potentials give rise
more » ... induction and other effects. To avoid these drawbacks I cause the electrothermic heating and refining to take place separately, the refining taking place in chambers which communicate with each other and with the leads by the canals for heating. When the metal has reached the required composition, a certain quantity of the finished steel is tapped, and the liquid metal filling the various parts of the furnace moves towards the tap-hole. The volume of metal withdrawn from the last chamber is replaced by an equal volume of metal heated to a high temperature in the canal adjoining it. Finally a quantity of metal equal
doi:10.1039/tf9060200044 fatcat:agnmdiqgwnd55dr5agvfsg7qpi