Approach for Efficient and Highly Productive EAF: Operational Results of a Reference Plant

One challenge in today's steel industry is to engineer plant facilities that can provide both production flexibility and environmental sustainability. Technological development is leading to the design of increasingly efficient furnaces, allowing the choice of smaller heat sizes even for significant annual steel throughput. This possibility allows reducing the total investment cost of a new production site or to modernize existing plants that are seeking ambitious productivity increases. This paper presents such a modern plant setup, with actual examples of facilities being built to produce more than 2 million tons per year with a heat size of 75 tons.

Dr. Andrea Grasselli | Tenova S.p.A.
 

P. Stagnoli | Tenova S.p.A.
 

B. B. Cheng | Tenova Technologies Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch
 

J. Chen | Tenova Technologies Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch