arc furnace

noun

1. a furnace in which heat is generated by an electric arc.

arc furnace

noun

1. a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc

Example Sentences

When a new electric arc furnace is completed, with £500m of taxpayers' cash, and production returns, it will be without coal, iron ore or limestone.

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He claimed it was time to switch off the blast furnaces and build an electric arc furnace if there was to be a future for steel in Port Talbot.

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Tata Steel UK has consistently said that its blast furnace operations were losing £1m a day, and it will invest £1.25bn in an electric arc furnace which would reduce emissions and secure the future of steelmaking.

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"What is produced in an electric arc furnace isn't primary steel. What you're doing is recycling steel. You're re-melting it."

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An environmentally-friendly "electric arc" furnace at Port Talbot is to be built and government funding guaranteed so steelmaking will not be put on the scrapheap.

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