Tata Steel to Upgrade Continuous Anneal Line for Energy Capture and Recycle
11/23/2011 - Tata Steel announced plans to invest in a waste heat recovery project at the Port Talbot Works Continuous Annealing Process Line.
Tata Steel announced plans to invest in a waste heat recovery project at the Port Talbot Works Continuous Annealing Process Line.
The new addition will generate steam using heat recovered from the continuous anneal line, making use of a turbine being installed as part of Port Talbot’s £53-million basic oxygen steelmaking plant Evaporative Cooling Scheme, announced earlier this year. The new investment will help to improve the steelworks’ competitiveness and sustainability, as it generates over 1MW of energy and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 6,000 tonnes per year.
The Continuous Annealing Process Line waste heat recovery project will be carried out between July and December 2012 to coincide with the BOS Plant project, as well as with the £185-million project to rebuild Port Talbot’s Blast Furnace No 4, announced in August last year.
“Times are very tough in the steel industry at the moment,” said Port Talbot Hub Director Jon Ferriman. “However, we are committed to our capital expenditure program to further improve the competitiveness of Welsh steelmaking. By increasing our power generating capacity we are improving our energy efficiency and there is also a significant indirect impact on carbon dioxide emissions.”
The continuous anneal line at Port Talbot was built in 1999.
The European operations of Tata Steel (formerly known as Corus) comprise Europe's second-largest steel producer. With main steelmaking operations in the UK and the Netherlands, they supply steel and related services to the construction, automotive, packaging, material handling and other demanding markets worldwide.
Tata Steel is one of the world’s top ten steel producers. The combined group has an aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 28 million tonnes and approximately 80,000 employees across four continents.
