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Definition of Electric-arc furnace
1. Noun. An electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel.
Generic synonyms: Electric Furnace
Group relationships: Steel Factory, Steel Mill, Steel Plant, Steelworks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric-arc Furnace
Literary usage of Electric-arc furnace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen, Guy Stillman Millberry (1918)
"Gronwall type of electric arc furnace of two and one-half tons capacity. One carbon
electrode is inserted in the hase and the other in the top. ..."
2. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for the Student and Manufacturer by Allen Rogers, Alfred Bellamy Aubert (1912)
"For instance, 50 volts is applied to an electric arc furnace, giving 2000 amperes
flowing through the furnace; the actual electrical resistance of the ..."
3. Proceedings of Association of Iron & Steel Electrical Engineers (1916)
"MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL OPERATION OF > THE HEROULT ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE BY GW
RICHARDSON Mr. James H. Gray of the United States Steel Corporation, ..."
4. Developments In Steelmaking Capacity Of Non-oecd Economiesby OECD Staff, Secretariat of the Steel Committee, SourceOECD (Online service) by OECD Staff, Secretariat of the Steel Committee, SourceOECD (Online service) (2004)
"This expansion plan is considered to maintain the current level of steelmaking
capacity by installing an electric arc furnace and closing down the existing ..."
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