Method for making steel in an electric arc furnace and electric arc furnace

A steel-melting method in an electric arc furnace (EAF), comprising:

• loading a charge in a furnace's workspace, consisting of scrap metal and Oxycarbon materials (OCM),
• supplying electric energy, fuel, a carburizer, a flux and gaseous oxygen in addition to the charge,
• heating and melting the charge using electric arcs with decarburization of a metal bath, and releasing a resulting metal and slag from the furnace,
• WHEREIN prior to melting, a portion of the OCM, restricted to no more than D=(dp+3.5 dEL), where D is the size of the the diameter of the central zone of the furnace, dp is a diameter of disintegration of electrodes, and dEL is a diameter of electrodes, is loaded into the central zone of the furnace, adjacent to a burning zone of the electric arcs, simultaneously with a first portion of the OCM in an amount of 10-90 percent of its total mass consumption per melt while a remaining OCM amount is added to the melted charge as melting proceeds with a specific loading speed of 0.5-10 kg/min at 1 MVA of nominal power of EAF, while OCM size is in the range of 5-80 mm.