Germany-based plantmaker SMS Group has announced that it will supply a converter shop for Indian steel producer JSW Steel Limited’s Dolvi plant in the state of Maharashtra in order to fulfill India’s high requirements of energy efficiency and environmental protection.
For the converter shop, SMS will supply two 350-ton BOF converters, two 350-ton ladle furnaces and one 350-ton RH TOP vacuum recirculation degassing facility. The environmental engineering will include two primary waste gas cleaning systems with a dry dust collection system and a secondary waste gas cleaning system for the converters, ladle furnaces and the RH facility.
In order to increase energy efficiency, the converter shop will be equipped with two heat recovery systems for generating steam from the waste heat of the converter primary gas. The produced steam is fed into the works’ pipeline network. Furthermore, thanks to the installed gas extraction technology, a volume of more than 400 million Nm³ converter waste gas per year can be used to replace other fossil fuels for energy generation. Not only the energy costs but also the output of CO2 can thus be reduced considerably.
Commissioning of the converter shop is scheduled for 2019. In the future, more than five million mt of steel per year shall be produced by the new plant.