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Tata Steel has announced a programme of improvements to its blast furnaces that will reduce the site’s carbon footprint by about 160kt of CO2 per year. That’s equivalent, says the company, to the annual emissions from nearly 100,000 cars* or those from the energy used by around 50,000 households.
Tata Steel has announced a programme of improvements to its blast furnaces that will reduce the site’s carbon footprint by about 160kt of CO2 per year. That’s equivalent, says the company, to the annual emissions from nearly 100,000 cars* or those from the energy used by around 50,000 households.
Tata's two Port Talbot furnaces – which currently produce around 3.6Mt of liquid iron each year – are powered by high pressure ‘hot blast’ air that is superheated to temperatures of more than 1,100°C.
Recycled on-site process gases are used to heat the air in seven refractory-brick-lined ‘stoves’, before it is injected into the furnaces. Each stove is around 45m high and 8m diameter.
Andrew McGregor, project manager, commented: “Stoves are absolutely critical to the running of our blast furnaces. Any loss of efficiency in heating the air means we either have to use more gas than is optimum, or we have to replace that lost energy by using more metallurgical coke to chemically reduce the iron ore inside the furnaces.”
Source : https://www.steeltimesint.com/news/blast-furnace-improvement-plan-reduces-emissions-says-tata