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Meeting future environmental
demands now!
Achieved results:
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The customer
Name:
voestalpine Stahl GmbH
Location:
Linz, Austria
Sinter production:
2,8 mio t/a
Services:
voestalpine Stahl GmbH, the steel center
of competence within the voestalpine
corporate group, is an important supplier
to the European automotive, household
appliance and construction industries.
voestalpine Stahl GmbH manufactures
high-quality flat steel products for the
following industries:
• Automotive and utility vehicle industry
• Automotive supply industry
• Household appliance industry
• Electrical industry
• Trade/SSC
• Tubes/sections/cold rollers
• Construction and building supply
industry
• Mechanical engineering industry
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SIMETALCIS MEROS plant
The environmentally friendly sinter plant
Electrostatic precipitator
Process fan
Bypass
Calcinated Combustion Sinter
sinter zone mix Gas
Gas-conditioning reactor
Ignition
~140 ºC
Pulse-jet-type cleaning Dampers
Air
Sinter plant
Water
Booster fan Stack
Cooling and transfer
to blast furnace 100 ºC
Fabric filter
Ca(OH) 2 Lignite
By-product
Recirculate silo
Additive
recirculation
Additive injection
Air
SIMETALCIS MEROS process description In the third step, the off-gas stream Main benefits:
SIMETALCIS MEROS, an acronym for which exits the conditioning reactor High removal efficiency for heavy
Maximized Emission Reduction Of passes through a bag filter equipped with metals, acid gases and dioxin/VOC due
Sintering, is a new environmental process special high-performance fabrics where to countercurrent flow injection of
characterized by a series of treatment the dust with the trapped pollutants is additives
steps in which dust, acidic gases and removed. In order to enhance the gas-
Low quantity of recirculation dust,
harmful metallic and organic components cleaning efficiency and to significantly
therefore fewer filter pulse-cleaning
still present in the sinter offgas after the reduce additive costs, a portion of this
cycles and less compressed air required
electrostatic precipitator are further dust is recycled to the offgas stream after
for filter cleaning
reduced to previously unattained levels. the conditioning reactor. This also
accelerates the formation of a filter cake Avoidance of system sticking due to dry
In the first step, special C-based dust recirculation
on the surface of the bag filter which
adsorbents and desulphurization agents
enhances the removal of fine dust in the Reduced mechanical stress to filter
(hydrated lime) are injected into the
offgas stream. The dust removed from bags applying low-pressure cleaning
sinter offgas stream in the counter-
the system is conveyed to intermediate pulses
current direction to bind heavy metals
storage silos for subsequent disposal or Controlled and constant process
and organic compounds.
for use in other applications. temperature as the basis for efficient
In the second step, the gas stream passes to
desulphurization
a conditioning reactor where the gas is
moisturized and cooled to a temperature of Flexible gas desulphurization with
about 100 °C by means of an injected fine Ca(OH)2, supported by NaOH in the
mist using dual-flow, i.e., water and air, case of peak concentrations
nozzles. This accelerates the chemical Reduced filter space requirements
reactions required for binding and removing using eight-meter filter-bag lengths
SO2 and other acidic gas components.
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Stack
Gas-conditioning
reactor
By-product silos
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Competence in figures
A Siemens VAI success story at voestalpine Stahl
Tota
PCD
Dus
HCI
Hg
HF
Pb
80
Organic compounds such as dioxins and Raw gas
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furans (PCDD/F) are eliminated by about
60
97% and total condensable VOCs by more
50
than 99%. SO2 emissions were also
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considerably reduced. During the first
30
year of operation overall plant
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operational availability exceeding 99%.
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The results speak for themselves.
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~99% ~97% ~99% ~97% ~92% ~92% ~99%
<5 <0.1
mg/Nm3 ng/Nm3
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SIMETALCIS MEROS conditioning reactor and storage silos
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For further information,
please contact:
Siemens VAI
Metals Technologies GmbH & Co
P.O. Box 4, Turmstr. 44
4031 Linz, Austria
Phone: +43 732 6592 77125
Fax: +43 732 6980 77125
E-mail: environmental.metals@siemens.com
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