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Siemens to Supply Second Corex Plant to Baosteel Pudong Steel
01/23/2008 - Siemens Metals Technologies will supply a second 1.5-million-tonnes/year Corex C-3000 plant to Shanghai Baosteel Pudong Iron and Steel in China.
Siemens Metals Technologies will supply another Corex C-3000 plant to Shanghai Baosteel Pudong Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (Pudong Steel), China. Like the first Corex C-3000 plant—the largest in the world—the new plant will also have a nominal production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of hot metal per year.
Baosteel decided to install a second Corex C-3000 facility in order to increase the Luojing site’s output of hot metal to approximately three million tons per year. The plant will be installed next to existing facility to capitalize on the new Luojing iron and steel works’ optimized plant infrastructure and raw material logistics. Hot metal from both Corex plants will be processed to steel in the adjacent steel works.
Siemens Metals Technologies’ project scope includes process engineering, engineering of key plant areas, and the design and supply of core equipment and components. As part of the contract, Siemens will supply oxygen burners, screw conveyors for the coal and reduced iron, and two Gimbal-charging systems: one for charging burden into the reduction shaft, and the second for charging coal into the melter gasifier. Siemens will also provide the dust-recycling system and various dust- and gas-lock armatures; electrical equipment for Level 1 and Level 2 automation; measurement and control instrumentation; and advisory services for erection and plant start-up. The order value is a two-digit million Euro figure.
The Corex process offers the advantage of reduced production costs through the use of coal instead of coke. The process also generates significantly lower environmental emissions compared with the blast furnace route.
Pudong Steel placed the contract for a second Corex C-3000 plant with Siemens within seven weeks following the successful start-up of the first Corex C-3000 plant. Start-up of the new plant is scheduled for mid-2010.
Pudong Steel is a subsidiary company of Baosteel Group Corp., the largest steel producer in China. The Luojing iron and steel works is located in Shanghai.
Metals Technologies (MT), a business unit of the Siemens Division Industry Solutions (IS), is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry, the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Austria, with the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for metallurgical processes, automation solutions and services for the entire life-cycle of industrial plants.
