The invention relates to the field of metallurgy and can be used in the making of steel in a single installation that encompasses all of the stages of the making and refining of steel as well as the casting of steel from the installation. The present installation comprises: a casting ladle with two slide gates; a water-cooled roof with electrodes, which is docked to the ladle and is connected to a gas cleaner; a slag runner; dosing bins for adding fluxes and deoxidizers; charging pipes for adding charge materials; a hot metal pouring-in funnel; a jet for injecting natural gas and air or oxygen, which is comprised of coaxial pipes and is mounted in pouring nozzle of the slide gate which is intended for melting process; and, connected to an injection apparatus, a tubule for injecting slag-forming reagents together with an inert gas or nitrogen. The installation is provided with a conveyor, which has a fuel burner and is connected to the roof. In the installation, cavities formed during melting are filled by the adding of grinded scrap and/or pre-reduced pellets, which are heated by furnace exhaust gases and/or additional natural gas flames during their motion on the conveyor covered by the roof and water-cooled. The invention makes it possible to avoid heat loss, reduce fuel consumption and also increase the stability of the process of melting and treating a metal in a single modernized installation under automated conditions without deactivating the installation and removing the furnace roof.

A method and device for treating a metal or a molten metal alloy using an addition agent, wherein the addition agent is deposited in a local cavity arranged at the bottom of a treatment ladle and surrounded by a protruding wall, and a closing member connected to movement means is able to form, with the bottom of the treatment ladle, in a low insulating position, a chamber including said local cavity and comprising an intermediate annular space around the small wall. Application to the treatment of a molten cast iron using pure magnesium or magnesium alloy.

A slag conditioner including 20-90 wt. % carbonaceous material with the balance being an MgO-containing material having at least 50% MgO as periclase, wherein the MgO(total):C weight ratio is 0.05-0.4. The slag conditioner may further comprise a CaO-containing material. The slag conditioner may be a particulate comprising particles of carbonaceous material mixed with particles of MgO-containing materials, may be in pellet form, or may be a briquette. Also, a method of conditioning the slag in an electric arc furnace including injecting the particulate slag conditioner or the pellet slag conditioner discussed above into the slag or into an interface between the slag and the molten metal or charging the briquette slag conditioner discussed above into the top of the furnace.

The present invention provides an aluminum alloy deoxidizer with carbon compounds, composed of multiple aluminum pellets. The main component of the aluminum pellets is elemental aluminum, and the aluminum pellets includes a weight percentage of 0.1 to 8 of carbon or organic compounds.

A process for manufacturing an iron-based alloy comprising forming targeted fine oxide and/or carbide dispersoids in a melt, and sequentially precipitating transition-metal nitrides on the dispersoids for heterogeneous nucleation of equiaxed grains. An iron-based cast alloy having a highly equiaxed fine grain structure.

A corrosion resistant alloy suitable for use as a seamless tubular is described. The corrosion resistant alloy includes 13-15 wt. % chromium, 5-7 wt. % nickel, and 2.5-4.5 wt. % molybdenum. The balance of the corrosion resistant alloy is iron.

A charged material containing a metal raw material of at least one of ferrochromium containing metal Si or ferrosilicon and unreduced slag containing Cr oxide generated by oxidation refining is charged into an AC electric furnace including three electrodes, a mass ratio of a metal Si amount to a Cr oxide amount being from 0.30 to 0.40, and a C concentration being from 2.0% by mass to a saturation concentration.

A method for producing a ferrous alloy may include: melting a ferrous metal charge in a metallurgical furnace to obtain a mass of molten metal; and feeding into the metallurgical furnace, before, during, and/or after the melting of the ferrous metal charge, at least one granular composite material including: greater than or equal to 50% and less than or equal to 97% by weight of a polymeric component including polyethylene; and greater than or equal to 3% and less than or equal to 50% by weight of metallic aluminum. The percentages by weight refer to a total weight of the polymeric component including polyethylene and the metallic aluminum.

A wire for out-of-furnace treatment of metallurgical melts comprises a metallic sheath which encloses a core comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Ba, Sr, Mg, Si and Al, wherein at least one layer of a composite coating is applied to an inner and/or outer surface of said sheath, which coating consists of a lacquer paint material and contains high-melting ultrafine particles selected from compounds of metal carbides and/or nitrides and/or carbonitrides and/or silicides and/or borides. The composite coating comprises a protector material, for which ferroalloys and/or flux agents are used. The metals contained in the high-melting compounds are titanium and/or tungsten and/or silicon and/or magnesium and/or niobium and/or vanadium. Said coating is applied evenly onto the surface of the sheath.

Disclosed are processes for recycling chromium oxide and producing chromium-alloy steel. Chromium oxide is reduced to metallic chromium and metallic chromium is mixed with steel to form chromium-alloy steel.