Electric Arc Furnace
Make cast steel and alloys on sunlight. The furnace smelts ores and melts scrap at 1,800 to 3,000 degrees Celsius.
2,917Tonnes of cast steel a year
SunlightRuns on the array, unattended
Alloys and Cast Steel
- Cast steel
2,917 tonnes a year from shred, produced for $406.82 per tonne against a conventional price of $420 to $480 - Ferroalloys
Ferrochrome, ferrosilicon and manganese alloy on the same 2 Cells, the Crushing and Milling Plant and this furnace; only the charge changes - Silicon, silicon carbide, graphite
Metallurgical silicon to synthetic graphite from quartz and coke
Specification
| Rated input | 600 kilowatts nominal, 850 peak |
| Materials | Off the shelf components |
| Temperature | 1,800 to 3,000 degrees Celsius |
| Energy capture | 80% of array output |
| Intensity | 0.50 to 12.0 megawatt-hours per tonne |
| Accepts | Chromite, manganese ore, quartz, petroleum coke, steel scrap, iron |
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