Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing stainless steels, in particular steels containing chromium and chromium-nickel. The method is carried out in a melting device containing a metallurgical vessel, or in a melting device (1) containing at least two vessels (2, 3) for supplying a steel-casting installation, an electric arc furnace process (1) and an air-refining process taking place alternately in the two vessels (2, 3). To improve the efficiency of a method of this type, the aim of the invention is to carry out a reversible treatment of unreduced converter slag in the electric-arc furnace mode. To achieve this, in the first treatment stage, the slag (19) with a high chromium content is melted together with the added charge, the slag is then reduced during the melting process with the silicon and carbon under favorable thermodynamic conditions of the arc, once the slag has reached a minimum temperature of 1,490° C. and the slag is subsequently removed.

Abstract: In a method of treating alloyed carbon-containing iron melts for the production of steel, whereby a carbon-containing iron melt is subjected in a metallurgical vessel to a decarburization by addition of oxygen and a part of the metallic alloying elements is slagged, whereby the metal melt is withdrawn from the metallurgical vessel while the unreduced slag remains in the metallurgical vessel and then the metallurgical vessel is filled with a new charge or iron melt and subjected anew to a decarburization process so that the loss of expensive metallic alloying elements as a result of decarburization is small because of the slagging. This is achieved in that without intervening removal of the slag, the slag is increasingly, saturated with metal oxides which derive from the melt and such that with increasing saturation the slagging of the metallic alloying elements is increasingly counteracted.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing stainless steels, in particular steels containing chromium and chromium-nickel. The method is carried out in a melting device containing a metallurgical vessel, or in a melting device (1) containing at least two vessels (2, 3) for supplying a steel-casting installation, an electric arc furnace process (1) and an air-refining process taking place alternately in the two vessels (2, 3). To improve the efficiency of a method of this type, the aim of the invention is to carry out a reversible treatment of unreduced converter slag in the electric-arc furnace mode. To achieve this, in the first treatment stage, the slag (19) with a high chromium content is melted together with the added charge, the slag is then reduced during the melting process with the silicon and carbon under favourable thermodynamic conditions of the arc, once the slag has reached a minimum temperature of 1,490° C. and the slag is subsequently removed.