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NLMK Completes Installation of New Waste Neutralization Plant

01/31/2011 - NLMK has finished the installation of a new environmentally friendly industrial waste neutralization plant with the capacity to process 1200 tonnes of waste per annum. The neutralization process combines waste incineration with high-temperature thermal decomposition.

NLMK has finished the installation of a new environmentally friendly industrial waste neutralization plant with the capacity to process 1,200 tonnes of waste per annum. 
 

NLMK neutralizes and recycles over 95% of its generated waste. 
 
The company has successfully implemented unique technologies for safe disposal of slag and sludge, petroleum and oil waste, as well as electrical equipment containing ultra-toxic substances. 
 
In 2004 NLMK stopped process waste accumulation at the Lipetsk site and started to process previously accumulated waste. In total, over the period from 2004 to 2010 the volume of previously accumulated waste was reduced almost by 1.5 million tonnes.
NLMK will use the new waste neutralization plant to burn internally generated low-hazard waste materials, including oiled cloth, saw dust, paper and wooden packaging and soil contaminated with oil products, with minimum environmental impact.  

 
The new state-of-the-art plant is compact and employs the most efficient neutralization process combining waste incineration with high-temperature (up to 1100C) thermal decomposition. The plant is equipped with an afterburner with a catalytic reactor for the additional treatment of combustion waste gases. 
 
The technical solution used at the new facility provides for nearly complete waste incineration, which the company says will help to reduce the techno-genic impact on the atmosphere by over 20 times, as compared to previously employed technologies.
 
The company has invested over RUR1.5 million into this new environmental project.