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Mechel Commissions New Integrated Steel Processing Facility
11/25/2009 - Mechel OAO recently held a ceremony for the commissioning of the integrated steel processing facility (ladle furnace) #3, the second part of the continuous casting machine No.4 complex project at the oxygen-converter shop of its Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant OAO subsidiary.
Mechel OAO recently held the official ceremony to commission the integrated steel processing facility (ladle furnace) #3, the second part of the continuous casting machine No.4 complex project at the oxygen-converter shop of its Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant (CMP) OAO subsidiary.
The commissioning was attended by Vladimir Surnin, Head of Industry and Defense Complex of the Ministry of Industry and Natural Resources of Chelyabinsk Region; Michael Yurevich, Head of the city of Chelyabinsk; Sergei Komyakov, Deputy Head of the city of Chelyabinsk; Boris Vidgof, Chairman of Chelyabinsk City Duma; Ximersis Jiojios, Vice-president of Danieli; Vladimir Tsukrov, the Head of Danieli’s Representative Office in Russia; and other guests.
Mechel OAO was represented at the ceremony by Igor Zyuzin, Mechel’s Chief Executive Officer; Vladimir Polin, Mechel’s Senior Vice-president; and Sergei Malyshev, Managing Director of CMP.
Mechel explains that the ladle furnace #3 allows reaching the exact chemical composition, conducting temperature correction, and removal of nonmetallic inclusions, which helps to improve the quality of metal. The equipment was mainly supplied by Danieli.
The commissioning was attended by Vladimir Surnin, Head of Industry and Defense Complex of the Ministry of Industry and Natural Resources of Chelyabinsk Region; Michael Yurevich, Head of the city of Chelyabinsk; Sergei Komyakov, Deputy Head of the city of Chelyabinsk; Boris Vidgof, Chairman of Chelyabinsk City Duma; Ximersis Jiojios, Vice-president of Danieli; Vladimir Tsukrov, the Head of Danieli’s Representative Office in Russia; and other guests.
Mechel OAO was represented at the ceremony by Igor Zyuzin, Mechel’s Chief Executive Officer; Vladimir Polin, Mechel’s Senior Vice-president; and Sergei Malyshev, Managing Director of CMP.
Mechel explains that the ladle furnace #3 allows reaching the exact chemical composition, conducting temperature correction, and removal of nonmetallic inclusions, which helps to improve the quality of metal. The equipment was mainly supplied by Danieli.
The ladle furnace #3 is planned to process about 1.2 million tonnes of steel per year. An increase in steel processing would raise continuous caster efficiency at the continuous casting machine No.4 in the oxygen-converter shop up to 120 thousand tonnes per year, according to Mechel.
Investments for construction and commissioning of the ladle furnace #3 amounted to 1.05 billion roubles.
Steel processing at the ladle furnace #3 is conducted in two ladles. Construction of the complex includes an electrode group, which is able to work in two positions, and a transformer of 32 MVA. Each of the positions is equipped with a water-cooling arch, four-stream wire addition system for delivery of aluminum and flux cored wire, a unit for steel sampling, tuyeres for inert gas injection and carburizing. The complex is equipped with an automated route for slag-forming material and ferroalloy supply, and a container lab for sampling and performing operational chemical control.
Steel processing complex #3 is equipped with a state-of-the-art gas purifier. The company says that it has the maximum filtration level, can work at high temperature ranges, and provides a continuous cycle of purification due to filter regeneration.
"Commissioning of the ladle furnace #3 is an important stage of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s investment program implementation,” said Polin. “This program fully complies with the world’s metallurgy development trends. First of all, in terms of converter production and increase in volume of steel continuous casting.
Steel processing at the ladle furnace #3 is conducted in two ladles. Construction of the complex includes an electrode group, which is able to work in two positions, and a transformer of 32 MVA. Each of the positions is equipped with a water-cooling arch, four-stream wire addition system for delivery of aluminum and flux cored wire, a unit for steel sampling, tuyeres for inert gas injection and carburizing. The complex is equipped with an automated route for slag-forming material and ferroalloy supply, and a container lab for sampling and performing operational chemical control.
Steel processing complex #3 is equipped with a state-of-the-art gas purifier. The company says that it has the maximum filtration level, can work at high temperature ranges, and provides a continuous cycle of purification due to filter regeneration.
"Commissioning of the ladle furnace #3 is an important stage of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s investment program implementation,” said Polin. “This program fully complies with the world’s metallurgy development trends. First of all, in terms of converter production and increase in volume of steel continuous casting.
“The launch of the ladle furnace #3 is also another step to shutting down highly expensive technology of rolling production, which includes ingots casting and blooming processing,” he added. “After today’s launch, the share of steel billets produced by the continuous casting technology at the plant will raise up to 50%. As a result, the performance of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant operations will considerably increase."
