These furnaces are typically charged with scrap steel. They use high-power electric arcs to melt the scrap. They also convert direct reduced iron into liquid steel, reaching the same quality that can be achieved in an integrated steel plant. The electric arc furnace creates valuable slag as a by-product, just as the blast furnace does. Just as in the basic oxygen furnace, the melt is then further treated to adjust its chemical composition.
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