Another milestone achieved at Minmetals Yingkou Steel
Source: CISDI
Another
milestone achieved at Minmetals Yingkou Steel
A new KR
desulphurisation system has been successfully hot-commissioned at the
steelmaking shop in Yingkou Steel, Northern China.
The KR
equipment, which is working stably, can treat an average of 115 tonnes of hot
metal per vessel and achieve an annual treatment capacity of 1.426 million
tonnes.
It has been
arranged in a horizontal configuration inside Yingkou’s workshop and extends in
an easterly direction from the existing hot metal pretreatment and slag shops.
Commissioning
marks a second contractual milestone achieved at Yingkou by CISDI - the first
being the hot-commissioning of basic oxygen furnace 3 in April.
CISDI is
providing services to Yingkou Steel to an EPC mode and as part of that task,
BOF facilities were upgraded to a CISDI-SACS patented product. In addition, new
facilities were installed at the existing meltshop. The additions included a KR
desulphurisation system, a semi-steel furnace, an LF, RH furnace and a
single-strand heavy continuous caster.
The KR system
enables Yingkou Steel to apply a mechanical stirring process which removes
sulphur from hot metal before it is discharged into
the BOF.
This improves
hot metal treatment efficiency and improves hot metal quality for steelmaking -
a step towards enhancing the steelworks’ competitiveness.
The new KR hot metal desulphurisation system,
which working stably in the meltshop at Yingkou Steel
