Spray-Cooled Equipment

Systems & Fab & Machine • El Dorado, Arkansas

Spray-Cooled equipment is used on electric arc furnaces; the technology uses water at atmospheric pressure to keep the furnace from melting as well as prevent steam explosions in the case of a water leak. The equipment can also be applied to off-gas ductwork, submerged arc smelter roofs, basic oxygen furnaces, and ladle metallurgy furnaces. Specifically in Arkansas, Spray-Cooled equipment is used at Nucor-Yamato Steel, Nucor Arkansas, Big River Steel (both mills), and Hybar Steel.

This patented technology is the only one of its type in the world that can safely cool an electric arc furnace and prevent deadly explosions that the competing pressurized water technology can create.