According to Mr Taras Shevchenko CEO of Alchevsk, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works plans in 2010 to restart the construction of its blast furnace No 2 which is currently about 30 percent completed.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, the commissioning of Alchevsk BF No 2 is planned for June 2011 and will allow Alchevsk to increase its daily output of pig iron by 65.5% to 24,000 tonnes. The contract for the design and construction of the BF was concluded with Netherlands-based plantmaker Danieli Corus.
In addition, in 2010 Alchevsk is also to start the construction of a new sintering plant consisting of two sintering machines with a total capacity of 11 million tonnes of agglomerate per year. The project in question is being implemented by German plantmaker Siemens VAI and is to be completed within three-to-four years.
Jointly with Japanese company Mitsubishi, Alchevsk is also constructing a new gas turbine station which will be equipped with three steam generating units of 150 MW each and will use coke oven gas, blast furnace gas and basic oxygen converter gas as fuel.
Previously, the commissioning of the new gas-turbine station was planned to take place by October 2010; however, Alchevsk has delayed the commissioning of the gas turbine station unit No 1 from September 2009 to May 2010, and the startup of its unit No 2 to autumn 2010. The startup of the gas-turbine station's unit No 3 was delayed to 2012, as it depends on the commissioning of the plant's BF No 2.
Moreover, in the Q2 of 2010 Alchevsk also intends to introduce pulverized coal injection technology at its BFs No 3 and No. 4.
In spring this year, Alchevsk completed the introduction of PCI technology at its BFs No 1 and No 5, which allowed the company to reduce the consumption of natural gas from 60,000 cubic meters per hour to 25,000 cubic meters per hour to 27,000 cubic meters per hour.
Previously, Alchevsk planned to finish the introduction of PCI technology at its BFs by July 2011, whereas now the date has been delayed to the end of 2011 as currently the works have been temporarily stopped due to lack of money.
(Sourced from SteelOrbis)
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