Metinvest Modernizing BOF at Ilyich Iron & Steel Works
10/06/2014 - In September, a large-scale general repair of basic oxygen furnace No. 1 commenced at Metinvest Group’s PJSC Ilyich Iron & Steel Works in Ukraine.
The reduction of harmful environmental emissions has become an important objective for the company, along with increasing the efficiency of the steelmaking process.
A gas exhaust duct, chiller boiler and other equipment of the wet gas purification system will be replaced in the course of repair work. This will reduce dust emissions, thus the carbon content at the filter outlet will shrink by one fourth. Metinvest Group is going to allot about 122 million grivnyas for the purpose of the project implementation; 90 million grivnyas of that amount will be for the adoption of environmental technologies. The entire procedure of general repair will be accomplished in a two-month period, the company said.
Director general of the Ilyich Iron & Steel Works, Yuri Zinchenko, commented: “In spite of the complicated situation in the sphere concerned and within the region, Metinvest Group keeps on introducing step by step innovative technologies which enable to reduce drastically the man-induced impact on the environment. Non-polluted air and increase of human wellbeing appear to be a viable perspective for Mariupol. Present-day high-efficiency and ecologically pure production constitutes the future that the company aims for.”
A gas exhaust duct, chiller boiler and other equipment of the wet gas purification system will be replaced in the course of repair work. This will reduce dust emissions, thus the carbon content at the filter outlet will shrink by one fourth. Metinvest Group is going to allot about 122 million grivnyas for the purpose of the project implementation; 90 million grivnyas of that amount will be for the adoption of environmental technologies. The entire procedure of general repair will be accomplished in a two-month period, the company said.
Director general of the Ilyich Iron & Steel Works, Yuri Zinchenko, commented: “In spite of the complicated situation in the sphere concerned and within the region, Metinvest Group keeps on introducing step by step innovative technologies which enable to reduce drastically the man-induced impact on the environment. Non-polluted air and increase of human wellbeing appear to be a viable perspective for Mariupol. Present-day high-efficiency and ecologically pure production constitutes the future that the company aims for.”
