Mechel Launches Biochemical Cleansing Equipment at Mechel-Coke
10/28/2011 - Mechel OAO celebrated this week the launch of a biochemical cleaning facility to treat phenolic wastewater from Mechel-Coke OOO’s coke and chemicals production process.
Mechel OAO celebrated this week the launch of a biochemical cleaning facility to treat phenolic wastewater from Mechel-Coke OOO’s coke and chemicals production process.
The new biochemical facility’s launch is part of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s long-term environment protection program. The plant enables the company to deeply cleanse all of wastewater produced by Mechel-Coke and decrease waste emissions by half.
Designed by Eastern Coal and Chemical Research Institute in Yekaterinburg, the new facility neutralizes waste water by applying special complexes of phenol-destroying microorganisms, which break waste into water and carbon dioxide. This technology allows the company to thoroughly cleanse its emissions of phenols, thiocyanates and ammonium nitrogen and ensures higher neutralization efficiency.
Investment in constructing the biochemical facility totaled some 900 million rubles (27.5 million US dollars**).
“The launch of Mechel-Coke OOO’s biochemical waste water cleansing facility is part of the ecological program Mechel is implementing at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s industrial area, which is subject to a sweeping modernization of its technical facilities,” Mechel-Steel Management Company Chief Executive Officer Andrei Deineko. “Every one of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s investment projects provides funds for environmental protection measures and introducing new equipment that will decrease or neutralize industrial waste, which helps to dramatically reduce the impact on the environment,” added Deineko.
The launch ceremony was attended by Andrei Dementyev, Deputy Industry and Natural Resources Minister; Viktor Semyonov, Director of the Basic Industry Department of the Industry & Natural Resources Ministry; Konstantin Tsibko, Russian Federation Council Member for Chelyabinsk Region; Chelyabinsk Region’s First Deputy Governor Sergei Komyakov; and other regional administration officials. Mechel Group was represented by Chairman of Mechel’s Board of Directors Igor Zyuzin; Mechel-Steel Management Company OOO’s Chief Executive Officer Andrei Deineko; Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant OAO’s Managing Director Rashid Nugumanov; and Mechel-Coke OOO’s Managing Director Pavel Shtark.
** According to the Russian Central Bank exchange rate of 30.5732 RUR/$ as of October 27, 2011.
Mechel, one of Russia’s leading companies, conducts business in four segments: mining, steel, ferroalloy and power. Mechel unites producers of coal, iron ore concentrate, nickel, ferrochrome, ferrosilicon, steel, rolled products, hardware, heat and electric power, and its products are marketed domestically and internationally.
