Nickel plant with new technology
In the near future in the roasting shop? 2 nickel plant Polar Division of Norilsk Nickel will begin implementation of the modernization project, in which the two anode furnaces will be transferred from AC to DC. Technology use in DC furnaces came from the steel industry and in the color will be used for the first time. To carry out full test pilot plant acquired oven capacity of 1.5 tons
The advantage of DC furnaces over the existing electric furnaces that melt mass transfer is much more intense. By reducing local overheating of the melt losses are reduced with fervor, with the fine fraction of dust, which increases the rate of melting metal. This increases the efficiency of furnaces and dust-reduced by almost 3 times.
Experimental furnace for a while will be operated in a test mode. Plant engineers will fix the various parameters of the new furnace. For example, measurements of emitted produce dust, and any loss of efficiency of the unit as a whole.
According to the test results will be decided on the full implementation of the new technology, and this, in turn, would eliminate obsolete equipment, additional environmental load.
