Abstract: A process for granulating slag melts, glass melts, ceramic melts, metal melts and melts of metal alloys, particularly blast furnace slag melts, the melt being shaped into at least one thin, liquid melt stream moving freely in a predetermined direction and which, by meeting at a predetermined incidence angle with a stream of fine-grained, solid particles and/or gas, particularly inert gas, flowing substantially freely in a substantially uniform direction at a high rate of flow in relation to the melt stream or melt streams, being converted at least partly into a substantially fine-grained granulate having a fan-shaped distribution over at least part of the opposite angle to the incidence angle.