ISSN 2594-5300
46th Steelmaking Seminar - International — Vol. 46, Num. 46 (2015)
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During the last years Riva Acciaio Verona has taken the decision to invest in the route of a fully automated meltshop. The aim is to reduce at the minimum the operator's intervention from the bucket preparation till the ladle transfer to the continuous casting bay. The foundation for achieving the goal is the introduction of innovative technological solutions (fully automated cranes for bucket charge in the EAF, robots for sampling, etc. The paper underlines how the different solutions are based on the best practices to improve operator's safety and describes the different steps of the project, the different solutions adopted and the results in terms of production, energy savings, cost reduction and improved safety. Details are presented for: scrap yard management and bucket preparation, EAFs centralized controls and related robots for auxiliary operations (sampling, EBT cleaning, scraper for slag door automation, complete mass & energy balance based on process control), LFs centralized controls and process integration.
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Fully automated melt shop, Operator safety, Process optimization, Economic benefits
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How to cite
Memoli, Francesco; Vasquez, John Anthony.
THE FULLY AUTOMATED MELTSHOP: BETTER SAFETY, CONTROL AND SAVINGS,
p. 448-459.
In: 46th Steelmaking Seminar - International,
Rio de Janeiro,
2015.
ISSN: 2594-5300, DOI 10.5151/1982-9345-26779