IMT2707 - Meltshop
Products and Steel Grades
Low-carbon Yes Medium-carbon Yes High-carbon Yes Alloyed Yes Scrap Yard
Storage Area 35,000 T Internal Railroads Yes Bucket Charge
Charging area: Buckets 2 + 2 Spares BVolume 800 cu Ft. Charged by 2 x locomotive cranes w/magnet Transfer 2 scrap cars with scales Electric Arc Furnace Lectromelt Number of Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) 2 Furnace Type Spout Tap Tap to Tap Time 120 minutes Average Steel Heat Size 41 metric ton Sidewall Refractory Panel Water Cooled Roof Refractory Panel Water Cooled Oxy-Fuel Burners Yes Shell Diameter 4.6 meters Transformer Capacity 27 MVA Electrode Diameter 450 mm (18 inch) Charge Materials
100 % Ferrous Scrap Energy Consumption 521 kWh/metric tap ton Approximate Furnace Volume to Top of Side Panel 22.65 cubic meters Ladle Furnace Mannesmann Demag Start-up/last revamp 1997 Ladle Transfer crane, ladle car Electrodes 12" Transformer Westinghouse Power 20 MVA Input 13.8 KV Output 154V - 350V / 6 taps Stirrer Argon / Nitrogen - purous plug Ladles
Number: 9 Engineering steel Ladle heaters and dryers - 3 heaters - 6M BTU (natural gas)
- 2 dryers - 6M BTU (natural gas)Degasser Alloy System - to buckets: lime
- to EAF: Foamy Carbon, Dolostone
- to ladles @ EAF: by alloy charge car
- to ladle @ LF & VAD: by hopper & wire feedStorage - Dolostone: 158T
- Lime: 40T
- LF Bins: 113T
- VAD Bins: 19T
- EAF Bins: 205T
