CMC Steel Texas... The Electric Arc Furnace; A constant flow

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The Electric Arc Furnace (EAF): A Constant Flow

The CMC Steel Texas melt shop operates an Eccentric Bottom Tapping, AC current electric arc furnace with a 22' shell diameter, powered by an 80 MVA transformer, 24" diameter electrodes, tapping 120 ton heats with a 15 ton heel remnant.

Other components of the furnace are 5 oxy fuel burners, a lance manipulator with 2 oxygen pipes, carbon injection, a temperature measuring device, and a supersonic lance.

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Getting Greener

CMC is at the forefront of environmentally-friendly steelmaking procedures. We are committed to using the latest technology to minimize our environmental footprint.

Dust, once the most voluminous by-product in the steelmaking process, has been virtually eliminated by baghouse air filtering technology.
Iron and other metals filtered in baghouses are recycled.
Water used in our steelmaking process is completely recycled, cleaned and used for landscaping our facilities.