Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies announced that the electric arc furnace (EAF) supplied by Siemens has been put into operation at Azerbaijani steel producer Baku Steel. The new furnace is part of an expansion project with which Baku Steel wishes to boost its annual production capacity to around 1.1 million mt of steel.
With the new 50-mt electric arc furnace from Siemens, the company can produce 500,000 mt of steel a year, some 150,000 mt more than with the previous plant.
The electric steel plant was equipped with an off-gas cleaning system as part of the project, so its dust emissions can be reduced to a maximum of 10 milligrams per standard cubic meter. Recently, Siemens also modernized the electric steel plant's ladle furnace and installed a dynamic compensation system.