1. Maritime integrated steelworks Raw material storage Coking plant Sinter plants Steel shop Hot strip mill Cold rolling mill, coating and blanks Blast furnaces
2. Production facilities cluster ArcelorMittal Gent continuous casting machine I 4.0 mt/y continuous casting machine II 2.5 mt/y 2 sinter plants 7.0 mt/y hot strip mill 5.5 mt/y coking plant 1.3 mt/y BOF-steel shop 5.0 mt/y 2 blast furnaces 4.5 mt/y cold rolling mill: 3 pickling lines 5.5 mt/y and 2 tandems (TTS+tandem 2) 4.0 mt/y batch annealing furnaces 1.5 mt/y continuous annealing and processing line 0.8 mt/y laser-welded blanks Noble int. Gent + Genk: 7.5 m blanks/y electrolytic galvanising Genk 0.47 mt/y organic coating Gent + Geel: 0.35 mt/y hot dip galvanising 1, 2 + 3: 1.4 mt/y
11. Evolution of production Kt / annum (*): Sidgal 1 + Sidgal 2 + Sidgal 3 + 1/3 Segal + Sikel + Decosteel Segal no longer included as from 2003
12. ArcelorMittal Gent: situation compared to the EU and Japan/South Korea – Emissions per tonne hot rolled coils Waste (kg/t) 5 Water (m³/t) 20 Energy (GJ/t) 30 5 NO x (kg/t) SO 2 (kg/t) 5 Dust (kg/t) 2 Source: Life Cycle Inventory IISI - ref. year 2000 Cradle to gate 1.4 6.1 17.9 1.6 1.5 0.3
Notas do Editor
In the steel shop, the continuous caster accepts units of about 300 tons of liquid steel, called a heat. Each heat is pored into a tundish. This device distributes the steel on the 2 strands. In the strands, the steel solidifies.
