Luxembourg-based plantmaker Paul Wurth has announced that it will supply coal grinding, drying and injection plants for the blast furnaces of
Ukraine-based Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of the Industrial Union of Donbass (
ISD).
The new technology will be applied to all four blast furnaces at DMKD's Dneprodzerzhinsk works which represents a total hot metal production of 11,850 mt per day.
The injection of pulverized coal will improve blast furnace process efficiency and increase productivity, saving a significant amount of metallurgical coke in comparison to the traditional iron making process.
The commissioning of the injection plants is scheduled to take place in 19 months.