Tenova Core to Supply Walking Beam Furnace for Gerdau Ameristeel
04/18/2011 - Gerdau Ameristeel has contracted Tenova Core to design and supply a 140 tonnes/hour walking beam reheat furnace at Gerdau’s Calvert City, Ky., facility.
Gerdau Ameristeel has contracted Tenova Core to design and supply a 140 tonnes/hour walking beam reheat furnace at Gerdau’s Calvert City, Ky., facility.
The new walking beam furnace will replace an existing furnace. It will be used to efficiently and uniformly heat billets for processing.
The furnace will feature a combustion system equipped with Tenova’s TSX low-NOx recuperative burners for reliable temperature uniformity as well as emissions control. Tenova Core will also design and supply the Level 1 and Level 2 process control and automation systems for the furnace.
This project will mark the first installation on a new furnace of Tenova Core’s Level 2 system, which includes an advanced model predictive control engine. The new Level 2 system heats the charge at an “optimum cycle” predetermined for each type of material for the complete range of furnace production rates.
The furnace is to be installed in 2012.
Tenova Core is a leader for the design and supply of reheating, heat treating, specialty and carbon processing furnaces as well as meltshop equipment, technical services and automation systems.
Tenova designs and supplies advanced technologies, products and services for the metals and mining industries, operating close to its customers through a network of 33 companies based on the 5 continents.
