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Green Wind Power for Steel Plant

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A German industrial plant will be the first to receive locally generated wind power through a direct connection.

With the green energy from the four new wind turbines installed by project partner SL NaturEnergie, thyssenkrupp Hohenlimburg, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Steel, can now cover 40% of its average annual electricity requirements.

The four wind turbines, each up to 160 meters in height and with a rotor diameter of 138 meters, are connected to the thyssenkrupp Hohenlimburg plant network via a direct line a good 3 kilometers in length. The wind farm generates over 55 million kilowatt hours annually, allowing the majority of this energy to be used directly without relying on the public grid. Surplus quantities are only supplied to other Group sites via the public grid in the event of high wind speeds or lower demand at the plant.

To learn more about this innovative project, visit Green wind power for steel production: Pioneering project by thyssenkrupp Steel and SL NaturEnergie supplies Hagen steel location with renewable energy from nearby wind farm.

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Burner Technology Enhances thyssenkrupp’s Annealing Plant

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Dr.-Ing. Joachim G. Wünning
President
WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH

thyssenkrupp Steel, a steel manufacturer with North American locations, recently inaugurated its newest hot-dip galvanizing line 10 (FBA 10) in Dortmund, Germany. The plant has a total of three vertical strip-processing lines and is a location for annealing and surface finishing of steel strip.

thyssenkrupp Steel, by using modern regenerative burners from WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH (with Ohio, U.S., and Renningen, Germany locations) in double-P radiant tubes, will save between 15% and 30% fuel as compared with conventionally heated furnaces. The patented FLOX® combustion process helps achieve low NOx emission values. The heating system is set for a later switch to green fuels such as hydrogen.

"All continuously operated strip lines are . . . suited for a future with green combustion gases," says Dr.-Ing. Wünning, President of WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH.

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News From Abroad: Decarbonizing, Steel Upgrades, and Green Tech

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Heat Treat Today is partnering with heat processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbH publication that serves mostly the European and Asian heat treat markets. Together, we are sharing the latest news, tech tips, and cutting-edge articles that will serve our audience — manufacturers with in-house heat treat.

We look to our European information partner for updates on decarbonizing steel in Germany, green technology in the Philippines, and upgrades for steel manufacturers in Brazil.

Plans To Decarbonize Steel

"bp and thyssenkrupp Steel announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding on the development of long-term supply of low carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production. Both want to accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition."

Read More: "bp and thyssenkrupp Steel Decarbonize Steel Production"

 

Tenova Chosen for Green Technology

"Tenova and SteelAsia Manufacturing Corporation, the flagship steel manufacturing company in the Philippines, recently inked a partnership for Consteel® Evolution. This is a state-of-the-art low-impact technology for steel manufacturing. It will be the first of its kind in the country and will be employed in SteelAsia’s new melt shop in Lemery, Batangas, in 2024."

Read More: "SteelAsia Chooses Tenova for Its Green Technology to Promote Sustainability"

 

Upgrades for Steel Maker in Brazil

"Danieli do Brasil Service Team will provide and install a new surface Quenching and self-Tempering system for Bars-QTB at Gerdau Araçariguama, which will replace the existing bar treatment line. The main purpose of installing a Danieli QTB process is to improve the mechanical properties of deformed bars (rebars), made from basic chemical composition, at low production costs."

Read More: "Rolling mill upgrade at Gerdau Araçariguama, Brazil"

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A Baker’s Dozen Quick Heat Treat News Items to Keep You Current

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A Baker’s Dozen Quick Heat Treat News Items to Keep You Current

Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry.

Personnel and Company Chatter

  • James Herald has been appointed the president and CEO of EVRAZ North America, Chicago. He will replace Conrad Winkler, who is leaving the group to pursue other opportunities. Herald joins EVRAZ from AXIP Energy, where he served as CEO. He has more than 35 years of experience in the oil and gas and energy pipe industries.
  • Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT) recently announced the addition of three new sales and metallurgy employees: Tim Zemaitis, Shane Seevell, and Katie Herron. Zemaitis, regional sales manager for AHT’s Michigan facility, joins the team with over 30 years of experience in heat treatment, metallurgy, and engineering. Seevell, regional sales manager in the corporate office located in Iowa, brings over 15 years of sales experience plus past heat treat experience working at AHT; and Herron, materials engineer & quality specialist in Alabama, rounds out the growing AHT team. Herron is a recent materials engineering graduate from the University of Alabama – Birmingham.
  • Meggitt, which specializes in high-performance components and subsystems for the aerospace, defense, and selected energy markets, has opened its newly expanded aerospace services and support center of excellence in Miami, Florida.
  • Virginia-based aluminum extruder Service Center Metals has been acquired by The Riverstone Group through its investment entity SCM Industries, LLC in Richmond.
  • L&T Technology Services, a leading global pure-play engineering services company has been selected as a strategic partner by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) for Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of UTC. Collins Aerospace comprises of the former UTC Aerospace Systems, Rockwell Collins, and BE Aerospace, and is one of the leading providers of intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industries.

Equipment Chatter

  • A 2000°F (1093°C), gas-fired heavy-duty furnace from Grieve (No. 1042), is currently being used for heat treating at a customer’s facility. In addition, the No. 1047, a 350°F (177°C), bench oven, has been purchased from Grieve for curing plugs on the ends of cords at the customer’s facility.
  • A factory with multiple lines of (fixed) heat treating ovens recently purchased a temperature data logging solution from CAS DataLoggers for the purpose of automatically monitoring the oven temperatures with precise accuracy while also handling data transmission and enabling remote access.
  • A manufacturer of electronic components purchased a Blue M inert gas batch oven, with a temperature range of 59°F (15°C) above ambient to 1099°F (593°C), from Thermal Product Solutions.
  • A manufacturer in the oil and gas industry recently received a shipment of an electrically heated four-zone conveyor oven from Wisconsin Oven Corporation. Each chamber in this oven has a maximum temperature rating of 752°F (400°C). The oven has a guaranteed oven temperature uniformity of ±10.8°F at 590°F (±6°C at 310°C)) for a minimum of 6 minutes per heating chamber. In addition, Wisconsin Oven Corporation announced the shipment of an indirect natural gas-fired batch oven to a leading manufacturer in the aerospace industry. The batch oven will be used to cure composite materials and has a maximum oven operating temperature of 500°F.

Kudos Chatter

  • Onex, Inc., recently received the 2018 Pinnacle Award from Vesuvius. Only two contractor installer distributors were presented this award in 2018.
  • AK Steel has accepted an award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) High-Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program. Researchers from AK Steel plan to work in collaboration with DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop microstructure-based transformation models to predict austenite stability in high strength steels in a project titled “Thermo-Mechanical Forming Process Development to Produce Tailored Strength Automotive Structural Components.”
  • Specitubes has received Nadcap accreditation for demonstrating its ongoing commitment to quality by satisfying customer requirements and industry specifications. The scope of this accreditation covers the heat-treating of seamless precision metallic tubes made in Samer (northern France) of Nickel and Cobalt Alloys, Austenitic Stainless Steels and Titanium Alloys. Typical applications include hydraulic and pneumatic ducting systems for aircraft.
  • thyssenkrupp has announced plans to build the world’s most advanced forging line in Homburg/Saarland, a new facility to produce forged front axles for trucks.  This production expansion represents the biggest single investment ever made at thyssenkrupp’s Homburg site.

Heat Treat Today is pleased to join in the announcements of growth and achievement throughout the industry by highlighting them here on our News Chatter page. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments especially in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors to the editor at editor@heattreattoday.com

 

 

Onex is proud to receive the 2018 Pinnacle Award from Vesuvius. Only two contractor installer distributors were presented this award.

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