At the BOF, it is gasses collected when they are blowing oxygen to convert iron to steel. This burning off is a huge waste of energy that could be used in a combined cycle turbine/steam plant to generate about 65 mw of electricity. Instead they are venting the gas to the atmosphere and wasting profits. The last view was both blast furnaces venting blast furnace gas to the atmosphere. The blast furnaces generate more gas than any other part of the plant and if they would take that gas and send it to a combined cycle turbine/steam plant, with the two furnaces, they could nearly generate enough electricity to be independent of the grid. I would guess they could generate nearly 400 mw and the plant would consume about the same. New generation tubines can use low energy blast furnace gas to generate lots of electricity. I can't believe in this age, Acelor Mittal is wasting this kind of energy.
Great video! I have always been interested in steel mills and have a a steel mill on my N scale railroad. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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What is the fire from?
At the BOF, it is gasses collected when they are blowing oxygen to convert iron to steel. This burning off is a huge waste of energy that could be used in a combined cycle turbine/steam plant to generate about 65 mw of electricity. Instead they are venting the gas to the atmosphere and wasting profits. The last view was both blast furnaces venting blast furnace gas to the atmosphere. The blast furnaces generate more gas than any other part of the plant and if they would take that gas and send it to a combined cycle turbine/steam plant, with the two furnaces, they could nearly generate enough electricity to be independent of the grid. I would guess they could generate nearly 400 mw and the plant would consume about the same. New generation tubines can use low energy blast furnace gas to generate lots of electricity. I can't believe in this age, Acelor Mittal is wasting this kind of energy.
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