Process for the production of metal melts

1. Field of the Invention To be able to produce metal melts using any metal carriers incurring in metallurgical practice as the charging materials, namely in the most diverse quantitative compositions, a plant for producing metal melts is provided with the following characteristic features:an electric arc furnace vessel () provided with one charging opening () for a metal melt and/or scrap and/or direct reduced metal, in particular direct reduced iron, and/or ore and at least one electrode () and one slag tapping means (),an oxygen-blowing converter vessel () provided with one melt tapping means (),wherein the oxygen-blowing converter vessel () and the electric arc furnace vessel () form a unit which is connected via an overflow weir () and which is rigidly mounted on the foundation and,wherein the bath surface related specifically to the bath volume is smaller in the oxygen-blowing converter vessel () than in the electric arc furnace vessel () andthe oxygen-blowing converter vessel () shares a common reaction space with the electric arc furnace vessel (), which space is arranged above the bath level of these vessels.