SLag Cleaning (CL) Furnace

The intimate mixture of slag and matte produced by the S-Furnace flows to the slag cleaning furnace (CL-furnace), where thet separate from each other by density difference into two distinct layers.

The matte syphons continuously from the electric furnace and flows via a sloping launder into the converting (C) furnace. The discard slag continuously overflows and is water-granulated delivery to slag storage.

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