Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Nippon Steel Corporation

Hiroshi Taketsugu

Otojiro Kida

Yoshiaki Shia

Hideaki Mori

Thermocouple temperature sensor and a method of measuring the

The service life of a bottom electrode for a direct current arc furnace for producing steel is prolonged by using ZrB.sub.2 type sintered bodies for a contacting pins which constitutes a major part of the bottom electrode wherein the ZrB.sub.2 type sintered bodies have a corrosion-resistance to molten steel and slag. Further, the number of contacting pins to be used is reduced by forming each of the pins into a form of pillar with a through hole at the axis, or by assembling a plurality of longitudinally divided pin portions to form a contacting pin, whereby the diameter of the contacting pin can be made large. Then the space between contacting pins is made broad, and brick having good corrosion-resistance are filled in the space so that the service life of the bottom electrode is brought closer to that of the refractory lining of the direct current arc furnace.

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Takasago, Japan

Hiroshi Taketsugu