TPT November 2022

T E CHNOLOG Y

SMS group to supply environmentally friendly technology for the production of steel bars

eco-friendly operation. Specifically, the furnace, based on a capacity of 120 tons per hour, will include SMS Prometheus ® Level 2 control – ensuring uniform temperature distribution and lowoxidation and carbon enrichment of the steel – as well as the SMS DigiMod combustion management system and SMS ZeroFlame HY2 burners. These extra low-NOx flameless burners are capable of operating with both natural gas and a blend of natural gas and hydrogen in any ratio, making this furnace hydrogen ready. The combination of the SMS ZeroFlame HY2 burners, the DigiMod combustion management system, and SMS Prometheus ® control will lower NOx emissions to 45ppm, reduce scale formation to 0.4 per cent, and cut fuel consumption to 27Nm 3 per ton.

MEGASIDER Zaragoza SAU, part of the Megasa Group since 2016, has placed an order with SMS group for a merchant bar mill equipped with environmentally friendly heating technology. The new plant will replace the existing rolling mill, which was delivered by SMS in 2005 and is strategically located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula near Zaragoza, Spain, with excellent connections to major industrial areas in Spain and France. The facility will be designed to produce a wide range of merchant bar products to complement and expand the existing product portfolio. SMS supports Megasider in its goal of achieving natural gas-free production and digitalising the plant. As a systems supplier, SMS will provide an overall concept for operating the flexible burners with a digital control system. This will enable the plant to be operated in a particularly environmentally friendly way.

Luigi Barbante, vice-president bar and wire rod mills, SMS group said: “We are proud that Megasider is relying on the future-oriented technology of SMS and will obtain a plant that sets standards in the environmentally-friendly production of steel bars.” SMS’ scope of supply includes a walking beam furnace equipped with the latest reheating technology for

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