Thyssenkrupp Metal (TKS) has put its No. 1 blast furnace back into operation at the Duisburg plant. The restart will acquire area just after a three-month break for a partial shipping, declared the German metal and flat steel producer.
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Thyssenkrupp Metal furnace in Duisburg at total capability yet again
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The furnace can now be operated at total ability. The furnace can produce 10,000 tons of pig iron per day or 3.65 million tons for every yr, TKS declared on Oct 4.
TKS decommissioned BF 1 at the beginning of July in get to have out the partial line. In this case, it remaining the outer entire body of the furnace intact. The former campaign lasted above 13 yrs, according to TKS.
Relining a blast furnace is affiliated with significant fees, as there is a surcharge for heat-resistant stones, which can contain graphite, carbon, aluminum oxide and silicon carbide.
The relining BF 1 will, even so, be the very last from TKS Europe. The team programs to exchange the furnaces with immediate-lowered iron units that will use green hydrogen by 2025.
The TKS key area in Duisburg can produce all-around 10 million tons of pig iron for each 12 months by using BF 1 as very well as BFs 2, 9 and 8, all of which have been relocated in the last 8 decades.
Duisburg also has two fundamental oxygen converters that can deliver up to 13 million tons of crude metal per year and forged them into slabs.
On-web page rolling mills roll the semi-finished product into plates, scorching-rolled and cold-rolled coils. Even more downstream, the plant can deliver each incredibly hot-dip galvanized and electrolytically galvanized sheet metal.
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