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JFE’s West Japan Works Starts up Second Battery in No. 6 Coke Oven

02/03/2011 - JFE Steel Corp. recently began operating a second battery in the No.6 coke oven of the company’s West Japan Works (Kurashiki). The facility employs a special reduced-impact technology—a low nitrous oxide combustion system developed by SCOPE 21.

JFE Steel Corp. recently began operating a second battery in the No.6 coke oven of the company’s West Japan Works (Kurashiki).
 
The battery (Battery B), which cost about 20 billion yen to build in roughly two years, is part of a domestic expansion under which JFE Steel is raising its annual crude-steel production capacity to 33 million tonnes.
 
The facility employs a special reduced-impact technology—a low nitrous oxide combustion system developed by SCOPE 21 (Super Coke Oven for Productivity and Environmental Enhancement toward the 21st Century), a project funded through the government’s Coal Production and Utilization Technology Promotion Program. JFE Steel previously adapted the technology for its Fukuyama No. 5 coke oven (Battery D).
 
Battery B at West Japan Works’ Kurashiki location comprises 43 ovens with a total coke capacity of approximately 440,000 tonnes/year. The Kurshiki facility operates a total of 506 coke ovens with a total capacity of 544 million tonnes/year.
 
JFE’s West Japan Works also operates 499 coke ovens at its Fukuyama facility, comprising a total capacity of 519 million tonnes/year. Its East Japan Works operates 260 ovens at Chiba (total capacity of 288 million tonnes/year) and 198 at Keihin (total capacity of 248 million tonnes/year).