It is reported that world’s leading engineering company, Uhde has been awarded another EUR 40 million contract in China for the construction of 4 new coke oven batteries with a total capacity of 4.2 million tonnes of blast furnace coke for the Chinese steel producer Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Company.

The 4 coke oven batteries comprising of 70 large capacity coke ovens with a chamber height of 7.6 meters, will produce some 12,000 tonnes of coke per day from around 15,000 tonnes of coking coal. The first coke oven battery will come on stream in late 2008.

Uhde's scope of services includes the entire basic engineering, supply of special equipment and supervision of the erection and commissioning activities, it will also carry out the detail engineering in conjunction with its Chinese partner ACRE Coking & Refractory Engineering Consulting Corporation.

Uhde would also engineer a coke oven gas desulphurization plant with an integrated sulphuric acid plant in order to meet Chinese environmental standards. It will use its proprietary VACASULF process for the coke oven gas desulphurization plant.