Linde, ArcelorMittal to Highlight Flameless Oxyfuel Technology at AISTech
05/02/2008 - Linde and ArcelorMittal will describe the benefits of using flameless oxyfuel technology in a continuous steel reheat furnace next week at AISTech 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
Linde and ArcelorMittal will describe the benefits of using flameless oxyfuel technology in a continuous steel reheat furnace next week at AISTech 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
As part of the event’s technical program, Mike Lantz and Doug Hassenzahl of ArcelorMittal will present a paper on how the Linde REBOX® flameless oxyfuel solutions increased reheating throughput and reduced fuel consumption at the company’s Shelby Tubular Products facility in Shelby, Ohio. The paper was co-authored with Anders Lugnet, Grzegorz Moroz and Anders Carlsson of Linde.
The presentation will describe Linde North America’s implementation of the REBOX flameless oxyfuel technology at Shelby Tubular Products’ seamless tube mill, which resulted in a 25% increase in reheating capacity and a 50% decrease in fuel consumption. The new technology also helped to improve temperature uniformity for better piercing results, a 50% reduction of scale formation, and minimized nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
“The REBOX solutions have been very successful in improving the performance of existing equipment without a large capital investment,” said Tony Palermo, Metals Market Segment Manager, Linde North America.
Linde’s in-house furnace and process engineering experts have converted over 110 furnaces worldwide to REBOX oxyfuel combustion. The solutions enable rolling mills, forge shops, annealing operations and hot-dip galvanizing lines to increase furnace throughput by as much as 50% and improve operational flexibility, heating performance, and temperature uniformity while reducing scale formation and cutting fuel consumption.
AISTech 2008 begins Monday, May 5 and runs through Thursday, May 8 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
ArcelorMittal has 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. The company leads a number of major global markets, with leading R&D and technology, as well as sizeable captive supplies of raw materials and outstanding distribution networks. An industrial presence in 28 European, Asian, African and American countries exposes the company to key steel markets, from emerging to mature, positions it will be looking to develop in the high-growth Chinese and Indian markets.
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with more than 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. In the 2007 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 12.3 billion (USD$18.7 billion). The strategy of The Linde Group is geared toward earnings-based and sustainable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
