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Midrex Hbi Plant
Midrex Hbi Plant
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SECOND MIDREX®
HBI PRODUCTION
MAIN BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER
• Safe and clean ironmaking due to direct Name. Lebedinsky Mining and Processing
reduction MIDREX
PLANT FOR
Integrated Works (LGOK)
• HBI production for the merchant HBI market
Location. Gubkin, Russia
METALLOINVEST’S MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY IRONMAKING SCOPE OF SUPPLY PLANT DATA
PROJECT The MIDREX direct-reduction process removes the bonded • Raw material handling
Annual capacity 1.8 mtpy
As a result of the excellent experience with the LGOK II oxygen from pelletized iron ore at elevated temperatures
• Reduction furnace incl. gas systems
MIDREX plant supplied by Primetals Technologies and by means of a reducing gas that is generated from natural Reduction furnace inner diameter 7.15 m
MIDREX and started-up in 2007, Metalloinvest decided to gas. • Reformer and heat recovery
Number of reformer bays 18
build a second MIDREX production plant for Lebedinsky
• Natural gas treatment
GOK (LGOK) in Gubkin, in the southwest of Russia. The Reduction takes place in a low-pressure reduction shaft Nominal capacity 231 t/h
decision to order a second MIDREX plant was caused by the by reduction gas that was generated by natural gas • Briquetting system
Nominal availability 7,800 hours
high availability of the first MIDREX plant and by the superior reformation and heating in a natural gas reformer. The • Product handling including storage yard and train station
HBI quality. The new plant is one of the biggest HBI plants iron ore pellets that are charged into the reduction shaft loading HBI metallization and Carbon min. 93% and
worldwide. Andrey Varichev, CEO, Management Company through feed pipes, are reduced to metallic iron by the content 1.5% C
Metalloinvest: “HBI-3 Plant is Metalloinvest’s most important reduction gas in counterflow, are discharged and finally • Water treatment
investment project. The launch of the facility is strengthening briquetted to high quality HBI. Due to the utilization of Raw material 100% LGOK pellets
• Electrics, instrumentation and automation
the Company’s position as the leading global supplier of HBI, natural gas (and not coke as reducing agent as in the
the premium metallised raw material for high-quality steel traditional blast furnace route), the process is considered • HVAC and fire protection
production. The increase in HBI usage in the iron and steel to be environmentally friendly. As a result, also carbon • Various steel structures
industries also serves to reduce the sector’s environmental dioxide (CO2) emissions are considerably reduced.
impact: HBI production is the most environmentally-friendly • Training and supervisory services for erection and
commissioning
method of producing iron from ore.”
The reformer, transforming natural gas to reduction gas Level 1 automation system
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