Abstract: An apparatus for melting a solid metal having a vortex chamber disposed within the apparatus, the vortex chamber having an inlet and an outlet, and a molten metal mover configured to move molten metal within the apparatus into the vortex chamber and disposed proximate to the entrance of the vortex chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for melting a solid metal having a vortex chamber disposed within the apparatus, the vortex chamber having an inlet and an outlet, and a molten metal mover configured to move molten metal within the apparatus into the vortex chamber and disposed proximate to the entrance of the vortex chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for the induction stirring of liquid metal in the bath of a reverberatory furnace by using a traveling magnetic field whose frequency ranges from 50 to 60 Hz. The device is in the form of a module and comprises an inductor of a running magnetic field and an unit, wherein the unit has a channel in the form of a chamber and the inductor is located horizontally under the chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for the induction stirring of liquid metal in the bath of a reverberatory furnace by the action of a traveling magnetic field whose frequency ranges from 50 to 60 Hz. The inventive method consists in producing a magnetic field action on a molten metal at a height of (0.1-0.5)H from the furnace bottom, wherein H is the bath depth, and, in a horizontal direction, along the plane of a chamber (3) bottom which is located behind of the furnace wall. The inventive device in embodied in the form of a module which comprises a load-gripping unit for lifting and displacing a load, a flange and parts for fixing said module to the wall of the furnace bath. The module consists of a frame (12) provided with a unit (2), which is arranged therein and is made of a material resistant to the molten metal action, and with the inductor (1) of the traveling magnetic field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to metallurgy of non-ferrous metals and alloys and, more particularly, to a process for producing an aluminium-silicon alloy with a content of silicon of 2 to 22% by mass. The process comprises charging crystalline silicon onto the sole of a reverberatory furnace so that the charged crystalline silicon has a cone shape, casting liquid aluminium into the furnace bath at 780.degree.-820.degree. C. and agitation of the resulting aluminium-silicon melt by means of a shaped jet of the same melt; the melt jet is directed into the base of the cone of the charged crystalline silicon at a speed of the jet along the axis thereof of from 0.5 to 0.8 m/s; simultaneously with the beginning of agitation the melt temperature in the furnace bath is lowered to 670.degree.-750.degree. C. and agitation of the melt is effected at this temperature. The alloy can be used in the automobile industry, tractor manufacture in the production of consumer goods.