Acting economically - growing sustainably
Sustainability has a long tradition at SMS group. We have always been committed to green production and the construction of environmentally friendly plants. We continuously develop and optimize our entire plant technology to reduce the consumption of resources such as energy and water, to decrease the level of dust or noise emissions and to increase plant efficiency by means of improved yield or the reduction of scrap.
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Our portfolio
The melting process generates up to 20 kilograms of dust per ton of steel. This goes into the exhaust air where it represents a big problem. You need to clean the exhaust air to ensure sustainable steel production and comply with clean air regulations. Whatever your furnace type - whether electric-arc (EAF), basic oxygen (BOF converter), argon oxygen decarburization (AOD converter), or submerged-arc (SAF) - we offer you the right technology.
Our range includes:
- Complete gas cleaning plants for all metallurgical equipment
- Primary gas cooling / dedusting
- Secondary dedusting
- Gas recovery (BOF, SAF)
- Dedioxization (by lignite coke)
- Desulphurization
- EFATM process
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Blast furnace top gas cleaning
Pollution control and energy recovery
A high-efficiency top gas cleaning system is vital for reliable operation and prolonged campaign life of gas and blast systems, energy recovery, and steam generation facilities. It allows the plant operators to meet the relevant pollution control standards.
Thanks to extensive expertise built up over decades, Paul Wurth is an environmental solution provider able to supply technology, systems, and equipment designed to the highest levels of cleaning efficiency, safety, and reliability.
With more than 140 references in blast furnace top gas cleaning worldwide, Paul Wurth offers proven design, plant, and core components, as well as plant improvement.
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Gas cleaning plants for BOF converters
The challenge of gas cleaning is to provide maximum protection to humans, machinery, and to environment and to effieciently recover valuable constituents of the process gases. Our BOF (basic oxygen furnace) environmental systems ensure high efficiency in recovering these converter gases and offer considerable economic advantages.
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Gas cleaning for electric arc furnaces
Our competence in the dedusting and gas cleaning of electric arc meltshops applies to the supply of equipment for new facilites and the modernization of existing facilities. The perfect interaction of all components reduces investment costs and improves efficiency.
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Our portfolio
The most important energy input in the steel industry comes in the form of heat. That goes for processes all along the process chain - from steelmaking plants to processing lines. Yet generating combustible gases often wastes precious thermal energy. That's why we developed several solutions to recover energy from:
- Hot off-gas from EAF, BOF, AOD, and SAF using evaporation-cooled ducts or waste heat boilers
- Combustible exhaust gases using industrial power plant technologies
- Hot off-gas with reheating furnaces
- Hot slabs with innovative heat exchangers
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