Cherepovets Steel Mill Reduced Steelmaking Energy Consumption by 25% since the Energy Saving Program Started
16.03.2012
ОАО Severstal (“Severstal” or the “Company”), one of the world’s
leading vertically integrated steel and steel related mining companies,
announces that its Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of the Severstal Russian Steel
Division and one of the world's largest standalone integrated steelworks by
capacity, reduced specific steelmaking energy consumption to 5.620 Gcal per
ton, 25% down from 1999, the launch year of the energy saving program.
In 2011 alone, Cherepovets Steel Mill reduced specific energy consumption*
by 1.3%: to produce 1 ton of steel, it reduced the consumption of bought out
energy resources: natural gas by 1.4 % (ca. 3 cu m; oxygen by 6.7% (ca. 4 cu
m); and electric power by 0.8% (ca. 2 kWhrs).
The considerable reduction in energy consumption has been achieved due to
investment and organizational and technological measures aimed at saving fuel
(e.g., in the sintering process and lime roasting), oxygen and electric power
(steelmaking).
Andrei Lutsenko, Manufacturing Director and Chief Engineer, Division
Severstal Russian Steel commented: “Having taken a number of measures for
upgrading equipment, implementing new energy saving technologies, discarding
inefficient production facilities and using modern automatic systems to control
the consumption of energy resources, Cherepovets Steel Mill considerably
reduced energy consumption and became a leader in this parameter among Russian
steelmakers”.
According to Mr. Lutsenko, annual reduction in energy consumption is the
company’s real contribution to the solution of the important macroeconomic task
for the efficient use and conservation of energy resources, and also for the
minimization of ecological stress.
According to the 2011 fundamental performance rating offered by
Interfax-ERA, Severstal was a leader among enterprises of Russian ferrous
metallurgy, ranking 16th among the top 100 real-sector
companies.
(*) This is a universal company’s energy efficiency index. It is expressed
in Gigacalories (109 cal) per ton of steel and calculated as a ratio
of the total amount of consumed heat/energy to the total volume of production
(steel).
