Abstract The pilot test of bath smelting reduction process producing stainless master alloy was carried out in a 15 t complex blowing converter. It was found that the yield of chromium is not high and the master alloy contains too much phosphorous. It indicates that the bath smelting reduction process producing stainless master alloy is indeed a process of [C] - [Cr] selective oxidational dephosphorization procedure. Essentially, it is a selective oxidation among [C]-[Cr]-[P]elements. Based on the model of SELF-SReM4, these two problems were discussed quantitatively in this paper.