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Uhde to Supply New Coke Plant for Posco’s Gwangyang Works

02/03/2009 - Uhde, part of the ThyssenKrupp Group, will provide extensive services for the construction of four new coke oven batteries at Posco’s Gwangyang Works.

Posco Group, South Korea, has commissioned Uhde to provide extensive services for the construction of four new coke oven batteries. The coke plant, which is to be built at Gwangyang, will to expand Posco’s coke production by more than 2.3 million tonnes per year.
The four new coke oven batteries will comprise 200 large-capacity coke ovens with a chamber height of 7.6 meters. Together, they will have a total coal throughput of approximately 3.8 million tonnes per year and will produce a total of about 2.3 million tonnes of coke annually.

Uhde’s scope of services will include the complete basic engineering package as well as process-relevant detail engineering, supply of core components and supervision of construction and commissioning activities. Uhde will equip the new coke plant with state-of-the-art technology, including large-capacity ovens which not only save space and reduce operating costs, but are also greener. In particular, application of the PROven® system will prevent the otherwise normal emissions from oven closures and charging operations.
 
The project will also include the installation of a new state-of-the-art gas treatment unit with a throughput of 175,000 standard cubic meters per hour. All gas treatment components will be operated in closed systems in order to rule out emissions and Uhde’s two proprietary processes, CYCLASULF® and MONOCLAUS®, will be combined to guarantee the best possible desulfurization of the coke oven gas and recovery of high-purity sulfur. In addition, a biological wastewater treatment unit will ensure environment-friendly treatment and disposal of the process wastewater and Uhde’s CokeMaster® system for the automation of all plant components in the battery and gas treatment sections will provide for not only safe but also process and cost-optimized operation.

The contract will be implemented in a consortium with Posco Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. and PoscoN Corp., both member companies of the Posco Group. These two companies will undertake part of the detail engineering as well as local supplies.
 
"This major contract, worth significantly more than €100 million, underlines the good reputation we enjoy in the coke-making sector throughout the world with our wide range of technological solutions from revamps to complete new plants," said Klaus Schneiders, Chairman of Uhde's Executive Board.

This new contract is the latest chapter in what has developed as a fruitful partnership between Posco and Uhde’s coke plant technologies division over the last 20 years or so. Most recently, Uhde successfully commissioned (2007) a new 750,000 tonne-per-year coke oven battery for Posco in Pohang, South Korea, bringing the number of coke plant expansion stages the company has completed for Posco at its works in Pohang and Gwangyang to nine.

For the new installation, the first two coke oven batteries and the gas treatment unit are due to come on-stream in autumn 2010, and the other two will start production a year later.

Posco Group of Seoul, South Korea, is the world’s fourth-largest steel producer.
 
Uhde, a company in ThyssenKrupp Group’s Technologies segment, has a workforce of more than 4,900 employees worldwide. The company's activities focus on the engineering and construction of chemical and other industrial plants in a variety of fields, as well as providing professional services and comprehensive solutions in all areas of industrial plant operation.