Title

INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONAL RESULT OF LINDARCTM REAL TIME LASER OFF-GAS ANALYSIS SYSTEM AT ACCIAIERIE BERTOLI SAFAU - ABS (ITALY) ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE

Authorship

Tolazzi, Daniele; Picciotto, Maurizio; Piazza, Manuele; Milocco, Oliver

Tolazzi, Daniele

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Picciotto, Maurizio

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Piazza, Manuele

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Milocco, Oliver

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DOI

10.5151/1982-9345-26716

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Abstract

In today’s highly competitive market situation, it is of outmost importance for EAF steel makers to optimise their processes in order to reduce operating costs and to improve safety and reliability of the equipment. The laser based off-gas analysis technology, With laser units installed on the fix duct, downstream the combustion gap, uses the “Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy” (TDLAS). The system performs real-time off-gas emissions measurements of CO, CO2, O2, H2O and temperature. A closed-loop operation is in place for dynamic control of the chemical energy package combustion/post-combustion of CO, H2 and CH4 gases into the EAF furnace shell. A statistical framework which builds on a data analysis engine, based on Danieli Automation Q3Intelligence technology, evaluates the “fingerprint” of the process represented by average and deviation trends of both gases and other process parameters. Process fingerprinting is conceived both for offline profile optimisation and on-line control of the refining process. This paper describes how the technology has been applied and the results achieved at ACCIAIERIE BERTOLI SAFAU (Italy) 100 t AC Electric Arc Furnace.

Keywords

EAF off-gas, Post-combustion, Chemical energy, Process control

Process control