Special-purpose equipment used in the metallurgical industry mainly includes the following categories:
1. Smelting Machinery: Pyrometallurgical machinery: such as blast furnaces, open-hearth furnaces, converters, electric arc furnaces, electron beam melting furnaces, plasma melting furnaces, electrolytic melting tanks, ladle refining equipment, ingot casting equipment, metallurgical vehicles, fluidized bed roasting furnaces, rotary kilns, blast furnaces, reverberatory furnaces, flash furnaces, vortex furnaces, etc. Hydrometallurgical machinery: such as extractors, electrolytic equipment, autoclaves, filters, centrifuges, etc.
2. Processing Machinery: Rolling mills: including billet mills, section mills, rail beam mills, wire rod mills, plate mills, strip mills, foil and strip mills, seamless pipe mills, copper plate mills, etc. Other processing machinery: extrusion machinery, drawing machinery, and wire drawing and rope making machinery, etc.
3. Auxiliary equipment includes refractory machinery, coking machinery, lifting and conveying machinery, sintering equipment, heat treatment equipment, and various heating furnaces.
These devices collectively constitute the specialized equipment system of the metallurgical industry, meeting the needs of each stage from smelting to processing and auxiliary production.