Less emissions from steel industry: Tenaris launches more efficient furnaces

2024-08-26 13:24:40

Tenaris, the metallurgical company of the Techint Group, has launched a new high-tech furnace. Increase steel production and reduce emissions. This is Consteel Furnace, installed in a steel plant in the Campana industrial center of Buenos Aires, where the company produces seamless steel pipes for the energy industry.

The project requires an investment of US$100 million. «It increases productivity and energy efficiency and reduces CO2 emissions. Improve operational safety. This new oven is a world first for the Techint Group.

The sustainable development process has been patented by Consteel, allowing Recycling of gases produced in steel plants And use them to preheat scrap, a key input to the production process. In this way, carbon dioxide emissions and electricity consumption are reduced.

The unit is defined as an electric arc furnace (EAF) equipped with Tenova Consteel technology. One of the innovations of this technology is A robot that performs temperature sampling and uses a camera Inside the oven, monitor its operation.

According to data previously provided by the company, the new furnace “will replace one of the plant’s two existing electric arc furnace units and will have the same productivity as the two existing electric arc furnaces combined. It will have a production capacity of 950,000 tons of molten steel. Used to manufacture seamless pipes.

Steel industry produces fewer emissions: Tenaris adds wind farm

The start-up of Tenaris’ first wind farm, called Buena Ventura, brings the company to this milestone in reducing emissions. The maximum capacity is 103.2 MW. this helps It supplies power to the company’s seamless tube factory in Campana.

The park has 24 wind turbines in operation and was authorized by power wholesaler Cammesa in October 2023. it was built in fifteen months According to company data, the plant was fully operational in February this year.

«Half of the electricity consumed by the Campana Tenaris industrial center comes from wind powerwhich reduces footprint Its operations bring the company closer to its 30% decarbonization target by 2030,” the company celebrated.

It is located in the González Chavez district of Buenos Aires province, an area “conducive to the use of wind power” Estimated capacity utilization is 58%«, they elaborated. It requires an investment of $203 million.

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