Energy is our future – energy is our life

Our chief ecological aim is to reduce the ecological load emitted by melt shops of the steel industry. We suppose the main ecological load emitted by a melt shop is the tremendous heat which is bound in the off-gas, the slag and the thermal isolation of the installation. In rough figures about 600 kWh/t steel are lost in hot air when transforming scrap to semi-finished products and about a fourth of this energy loss is avoidable!!

Just for information: a single house giving shelter for 4 people consumes heat energy of about 25’000 kWh/year*) – thus that represents a production of 170t steel with the avoidable energy loss of about 150 kWh/t. A steel plant does not produce 170t/year but rather 1’000’000 t/year, that’s about the energy consume of 5900 houses in one year!
*) www.energieheld.de/blog/energieverbrauch-eines-wohnhauses/

Our chief economical aim is to make better use of the resources which means to raise the yield scrap vs. molten steel by less open arcing, to lower the energy input by better recuperation of the emitted energy, to lower the wear by smoother scrap handling and to reduce the maintenance by less movement of the roof and its adjacent installations. All together we assume to save up to 20 Euro/t produced steel.