Zaporizhstal reduced natural gas consumption by 40 percent while increasing production

October 8, Zaporozhye. The metallurgical plant Zaporizhstal of the Dutch Metinvest group of the Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov has cut natural gas consumption by 40 percent over the past three years, amid growing production indicators.

According to the press service of the plant, the plant managed to achieve a reduction in natural gas consumption by introducing energy-efficient measures to modernize equipment, using modern automated systems for monitoring energy consumption and introducing new energy-saving technologies at all production stages.

In 2012, the Zaporozhye metallurgists used 331 million cubic meters. meters of natural gas, in 2013 - 236 million cubic meters. meters, and in 2014 - already 206 million cubic meters. meters of blue fuel.

Among the largest measures implemented at Zaporizhstal from 2013 to 2015 are the replacement of natural gas with coke oven gas in the mill's rolling shops in 2014 (savings amounted to 12.3 million cubic meters per year), reducing the consumption of natural gas during the melting period to 0 cubic meters. ... m per hour when purging the bath with oxygen on 500-ton open-hearth furnaces (savings amounted to 6.5 million cubic meters per year), the introduction of individual regime maps for steel-making blast-furnace gas pipeline (savings amounted to 1.1 million cubic meters per year), as well as a number of other measures.