November 20, 2008

TATA Steel ferrochrome furnace in South Africa switched

It is reported Tenova Pyromet switched in the TATA Steel’s second of two furnaces in Richard's Bay in South Africa on July 11th 2008. With the first furnace switched on April 3rd 2008 the second followed 3 months later.

As per report, the contract to supply TATA Steel’s with a complete furnace package at its ferrochrome plant in 2007 and Tenova Pyromet was responsible for the design construction and commissioning of two 38 MW submerged arc furnaces.

The scope included the plant control system with electrical and mechanical equipment. This consisted of the entire gas cleaning scrubber system for the furnace off gas as well as the tap hole off gas extraction bag filter systems.

TATA envisages the plant producing 134,500 tonnes per annum of High Carbon Ferro Chrome with a chrome content of over 64% in Phase I of operations.