Plant Portrait

Water Treatment Plant

Direct Sheet Plant
Hoogovens Staal

In June 1998 Lurgi Bamag was awarded a contract

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for engineering, supply, erection and commissioning
of the Water Treatment Plant for the new Direct
Sheet Plant of “Hoogovens Staal” in IJmuiden,
Netherlands.
Designed to treat a total throughput of some 25,000
m³/h in three separate circuits, the Water Treatment
Plant will ensure the complete cooling water
recycling in the new Direct Sheet Plant. Annual
capacity of the mill is 1,400,000 metric tons of steel.
The process steps involved are separation of mill
scale and oil by sedimentation and filtration,
recooling of the water from the various cooling
circuits and recirculation to the Direct Sheet Plant.
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Casting Machine
Tunnel Furnace
55°C 39°C
Scale Pit
1. Objective
Complete Water Treatment of Direct
Sheet Plant
- Design data
Throughput 1st circuit 3,850 m³/h
2nd circuit 7,800 m³/h
3rd circuit 13,000 m³/h
2. Plant concept
The three circuits are:
- 1. Closed Circuit
Closed circuit cooling water supply
for equipment cooling, consisting of
plate type heat exchanger and
secondary circuit induced - draft
cooling tower, circulating pumps
and chemical feed to cooling tower
and closed circuit.
- 2. UFC/Coil Cooling
Open circuit cooling water supply
for product cooling, consisting of:
side stream filtration, induced - draft
cooling tower, chemical feed to
cooling tower and pumping stations.
- 3. Direct Open Circuit
Open circuit water supply for direct
cooling of casting processes and
finishing stands consisting of scale
pit with oil removal, settler, sand
filters, induced - draft cooling tower,
chemical feed to the cooling tower
and pumping stations.
3. Special process features
Mill scale removed from the water in
the scale pit and sedimentation
basin is recovered by overhead
travelling crane and recycled to the
sinter plant.
Principle of Direct Sheet Plant
Roughing Mill Rolling Mill Ultra Fast Cooling/ Coiler
Coil-Cooling Cold
Descaling 1 Descaling 2
Rolling Mill
30°C 30°C 30°C
39°C 715 m3/h
Indirect
Cooling
UFC/Coil-
3,850 m3/h Cooling
7,800 m3/h
Pump Pit
Direct Cooling
13,000 m3/h
Filter
Cooling
Settler Tower
The scale pit is an approved special 5. Operating experience
Bamag design installed in more than The project has been successfully
50 previous plants. commissioned only 14 months after
The pressure filters are fitted with contract award at the end of 1999.
nozzleless filter bottoms and have
given reliable performance in over
700 applications around the world.
Chemical treatment involved
addition of the appropriate agents tot
he separate circuits for inhibiting
water scale formation and corrosion,
controlling slime and promoting
flocculation.
The treatment plant is operated by
an automatic process control system
located in the mill central control
room.
4. Wastewater Treatment
Backwash water from the pressure
filters treated in a separate plant to
reduce the COD from 900 mg/l down
to below 40 mg/l.
Wastewater is routed through a
prereaction chamber, in which
flocculant is added, to a compact
SEDIMAT clariflocculator. There
polyelectrolyte is added to promote
settling of suspended solids.
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A proportion of the settled sludge is
returned to the reaction zone as
contact sludge.
Most of the clear water is recycled to
the Direct Open Circuit as cooling
water while 10% of the flow is
separate discharged with effluent of
the sludge dewatering process.
Sludge withdrawn from the
SEDIMAT clariflocculator is
collected in a tank and dewatered by
a mobile dewatering system.