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ArcelorMittal South Africa to upgrade electric arc furnace equipment

Jan 21, 2010

ArcelorMittal South Africa is to install a chemical energy package equipment at the company's Vanderbijlpark Works' three electric arc furnaces. The integrated steel works at Vanderbijlpark is Africa's largest steel production site.

Vanderbijlpark Works has a total capacity of 3 million tonnes a year of high-grade flat products, including hot rolled sheets in coil, hot rolled steel plates, cold rolled steels sheet in coil, hot dip galvanised steel sheets in coil, electro-galvanised steel sheets in coil, colour coated steel sheets in coil and tin plate coils. Each electric arc furnace (EAF) has a tapping weight of 155 tonnes.

Each EAF will be equipped with two supersonic-oxygen injectors, two sonic-carbon injectors, and one carbon injector. Moreover, each furnace will be equipped with an automatic temperature/ sampling manipulator, operated through the slag door.

"The new chemical energy package will replace the traditional consumable carbon/oxygen lance manipulators we have today", said Mr. Jaco Stapelberg, General Manager at ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark. "It will add exothermic energy in such a way that it optimises our metallurgical process, increases productivity and maximises the efficiency of our furnaces. As importantly, it should improve the safety of our operations."

Commissioning is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010.

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