Technical and economic advantages of pig iron in
the charges of cupolas or electric furnaces
مزایای اقتصادی و فنی استفاده از آهن خام در شارژ کوره های کوپولا یا برقی
ABSTRACT
The study has the following general objective: to determine the technical and economic advantages of the use of pig iron in charges remelted either in the cupola or in the electric furnace. It has been found that the consumption of pig iron per tonne of castings produced by iron foundries has dropped significantly in all Community member countries in the last few years. This decline seems to result primarily from the price difference between pig iron and scrap, which is encouraging foundries to accommodate to the latter, which is of course not as close to the iron to be produced, with the help of new melting and metallurgical testing techniques