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Abstract

A furnace vessel of an arc furnace is loaded with solid metal. Afterward, an energy supply device of the arc furnace feeds electrical energy to electrodes of the arc furnace via a furnace transformer to form arcs between the electrodes and the metal, the arcs melting the metal. Finally, the molten metal is removed from the furnace vessel. The number of electrodes is at least three. For at least two of the electrodes, the energy supply device individually sets the operating frequency (fa, fb) of the relevant electrode. The current (Ic) through the third electrode is defined by the current (Ia, Ib) through the first and the second electrodes. Which of the electrode is the first electrode, which is the second electrode, and which is the third electrode is assigned dynamically.

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