With more than 180 plants and heat sizes of up to 400 tons, SMS group’s RH process is characterized worldwide by very good results in decarburization and degassing with relatively low temperature losses. Fast vessel changes and efficient ladle transport concepts increase the capacity of the plant, and with the use of a RH duplex system, the capacity can be increased even further.
Customer challenges addressed
- Decarburization to lowest final contents
- Rapid removal of hydrogen
- Alloying and fine trimming with high accuracy and very good yield
- Fast addition of large quantities of alloy
- Rapid homogenization of the ladle contents, even when adding large quantities of alloy
- Very short treatment times with the vacuum carbon deoxidation type
- Relatively low temperature losses (depending on the batch size)