December 02, 2008

ArcelorMittal Bremen to install converter gas recovery system

SMS Demag has announced that it has received an order from ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH in Germany to modernize the primary dust collecting system of the oxygen steelworks and to prepare it for retrofitting with a converter gas recovery system.

The first stage of this project is to revamp the cooling stacks of the two 290 tonnes converters and to equip them with SMS Demag Baumcoadjustable skirts. These can be moved hydraulically onto the converter mouth during the blowing phase and they enable the primary gases to be captured efficiently under suppressed combustion. In addition, diffuse dust emissions are substantially reduced.

The SMS Demag supply scope includes the planning of the integrated plant and the supply of all core components, among which are the adjustable skirts with their hydraulics and the electrical induced-draught fans. It also supplies the basic engineering for the electrical equipment and the X-Pact® electrical and automation systems. The completion of the modernization work is scheduled for the beginning of 2009.