Steel is a key industry in the global economy, with air compressors as the central power source. The environment of a steel plant is uneasy, so all equipment should be sturdy and durable. Due to these high expectations, the steel industry needs machinery that is trouble-free, reliable, and high quality.
Applications in steel production that need compressed air:
- Blast Furnaces: Blast furnaces are used for smelting to produce industrial metals. For example, iron ores, coke, and limestone are combined in a furnace to produce iron. In order to reach the necessary melting temperatures, hot air is blasted into the furnace.
- Coke Production: Coke is used as a fuel and a reducing agent in melting iron ores. It is produced by baking coal until it becomes carbon. A coke plant needs a continuous air supply once fired.
- Oxygen Furnaces: Oxygen furnaces are part of a steelmaking method where pure oxygen is blown into a bath of molten blast-furnace iron and scrap. With an oxygen lance, pressurized oxygen makes the temperature rise to melt the scraps into liquid steel.
- Bag Houses: In steel production, flue gas streams through baghouse filters in order to extract particles generated during the smelting process. The bags clean themselves periodically by pulsing compressed air through the bags. The dust then goes into a hopper and is removed.
- Air Mixture: Compressed air is combined with water to cool down the slabs and billets after it has been shaped. Utilizing air compressor machinery ensures the slabs and billets are uniform and can cool faster.
- Instrument Air: Many applications in the steel production process need compressed air for instrumentation purposes. Operations like crust breaking, air nozzles, and pneumatic conveying are dependent on air compressors.
- WWT: Water used during steel production must be treated before it can be reused or released.
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