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Hot metal desulphurisation plants.

. . . from a single source right down

to the details.

Injection lance
in the lance insertion
unit after the
injection procedure.

Hot metal desulphurisation

in an Austrian steel works with
two treatment stations.

Polysius AG
Graf-Galen-Strae 17
59269 Beckum / Deutschland
Tel.: +49 - (0)25 25 - 99-0
Fax: +49 - (0)25 25 - 99-2100
e-mail: polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
www.polysius.com

Polysius de Mxico S.A. de C.V.

Sierra Gamn # 120, 8 Piso
Lomas de Chapultepec
11000 Mxico, D.F./Mxico
Tel.: +52 - (0)55 - 52 84 01 00
Fax: +52 - (0)55 - 52 84 02 73
e-mail: mx.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

A company of
ThyssenKrupp Technologies

Polysius do Brasil Ltda.

Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima 1572 - 14 andar
Jardim Paulistano
01452-908 So Paulo / SP / Brasil
Tel.: +55 - (0)11 - 3811 45 00
Fax: +55 - (0)11 - 3097 81 44
e-mail: br.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

All the plant components come

from a single source, ranging
from the tank vehicle unloading
station
via the
silos
for
storing the desulphurisation
reagents, the dispensers, the
injection systems, the lance
insertion and lance changing
units, the slag skimming machines right up to the control
room and electrical equipment,
the MEPOL pressure-vessel
conveyors and the metallurgical
process computers.
The Polysius scope of supply
also includes the extension,
modernisation and optimisation
of existing hot metal desulphurisation plants, as well as field
assembly, commissioning and
such services as plant and
process inspection.

Probedruck

Polysius Ltd.
The Brackens, London Road
Ascot, Berks. SL5 8BE / England
Tel.: +44 - (0)13 44 - 88 41 61
Fax: +44 - (0)13 44 - 88 64 38
e-mail: uk.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

Metallurgical process computer in the

control room. (Centre) Slag skimming
machine also remotely controllable from
the control room.

Ladle car with

tilting device.

Polysius S. A.S.
770, Avenue Guilibert de la Lauzire
13290 Aix en Provence / France
Tel.: +33 - 4 42 - 16 61 00
Fax: +33 - 4 42 - 16 61 02
e-mail: fr.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius S. A.
Pl. Manuel Gmez Moreno, s/n
Edificio Bronce
28020 Madrid / Espaa
Tel.: +34 - (0)91 - 5 55 80 40
Fax: +34 - (0)91 - 5 55 47 89
e-mail: es.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius Corp.
180 Interstate North Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339-2194 / USA
Tel.: +1 - 7 70 - 955 - 36 60
Fax: +1 - 7 70 - 955 - 87 89
e-mail: us.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

Polysius de Argentina S. A.
25 de Mayo 596 - Piso 14
(1002) Buenos Aires / Argentina
Tel.: +54-11-43 11 60 46 / 7
Fax: +54-11-43 11 60 45
e-mail: ar.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius
a division of ThyssenKrupp Engineering (Pty.) Ltd.
71 Nanyuki Road
Sunninghill 2157
South Africa
Tel.: +27 - (0)11 - 236 - 10 00
Fax: +27 - (0)11 - 236 - 13 01
e-mail: za.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
3 International Business Park
# 06-08 Nordic European Centre
Singapore 609927
Tel.: +65 - 68 90 16 28
Fax: +65 - 68 90 16 35
e-mail: sg.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius
a division of ThyssenKrupp Engineering
(Australia) Pty. Ltd.
8 Business Park Drive
Notting Hill, Vic. 3168 /Australia
Tel.: +61 - (0)3 - 95 58 86 66
Fax: +61 - (0)3 - 95 58 84 88
e-mail: au.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

A company of
ThyssenKrupp
Technologies

Polysius

ThyssenKrupp

Polysius offers turnkey hot

metal desulphurisation plants
which are precisely tailored
to the production range of the
respective steel works.

1594/GB (2.0 06.05 Cr) Printed in Germany

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Economical hot metal desulphurisation plants

from Polysius the market leader.

Variants of the
dip-lance method.

Coinjection dispenser
in a Chinese steel plant.

MEPOL principle.

(Conveying rate)
m
Mono-injection

and our companys comprehensive process know-how

gained from the installation of
over 50 hot metal desulphurisation plants all around the
world, Polysius is the market
leader on this sector.

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Co-

For hot metal desulphurisation

outside the blast furnace, the
dip-lance method is the most
reliable and the most economical metallurgical process.
For this reason, most steel
works world-wide reduce the
hot metal's sulphur content in
charging and transfer ladles with
the dip-lance injection process.

For more than 35 years Polysius

has been supplying turnkey hot
metal desulphurisation plants
operating with the dip-lance
method. Thanks to the
advanced plant
technology

Multi-

The production of high-grade

steel qualities is no longer
conceivable without targeted
desulphurisation of the hot
metal in ladles outside the blast
furnace process.

Mask of a
Coinjection plant.

Process technology
What makes the dip-lance process so effective for hot metal
desulphurisation is the pneumatic injection of fine-grained
desulphurisation reagents into
the molten metal with high
dosing precision via refractory
lances. This causes an intimate
mixing of the desulphurisation reagents with
the hot metal. The
dip-lance method can
reliably reduce the
sulphur content of the hot
metal to figures as low as
0.001%.

Functional diagram of a
hot metal desulphurisation plant
with two treatment stations.

Probedruck

hot metal desulphurisation

is proportionally opposite to
the desulphurisation reagent
injection rate.
Another way is to inject different desulphurisation reagents
during one hot metal treatment session. The reagents
can be injected into the molten
metal individually, simultaneously or at injection intervals
with the Monoinjection, Coinjection or Multi-injection processes.

It allows the use of

several desulphurisation reagents, such
as lime, calcium carbide and magnesium, which
remove the sulphur from the
hot metal by chemical reaction
and convert it to the slag.

Which of the above processes

causes the lowest operating
costs depends on the operating and production conditions
(such as the weight, temperature and sulphur content of
the hot metal, the required
final sulphur content, the blast
furnace slag and the injection
time), which can vary from
charge to charge.

There are many ways of controlling the dip-lance process to

minimise the operating costs.
One is to vary the desulphurisation reagent injection rate,
which must take account of the
fact that the effectiveness of

For the selection of the optimum

injection process according to
the production conditions a
comprehensive knowledge of
the metallurgy of the hot metal
desulphurisation process is
required.

In todays computer-aided hot

metal desulphurisation plants,
selection of the optimum process is performed by a metallurgical process computer. The
quality of the process is thus
determined by the quality of the
metallurgical process computer
and thus by the programmed
process knowhow.
Due to the large number of
plants already supplied, Polysius possesses comprehensive
metallurgical know-how. This
is implemented in the metallurgical process computer
which is an in-house development and thus benefits our
numerous customers all around
the world. The metallurgical
program contains all mathematical equations which reflect
the regularities of hot metal
desulphurisation, so that every
hot metal charge is individual
desulphurised with the optimum
process.

Plant technology
To minimise the operating costs of the hot metal
desulphurisation process, Polysius offers a special
injection technology under the proprietary name
MEPOL.
The core item of the MEPOL technology is the
pressure-vessel conveyor with five harmonised
measurement and control units for measuring,
monitoring and controlling all operating parameters that have an influence on the process
and the dosing precision.

3
5

1 Control of top pressure

2 Control of fluidisation gas
3 Discharge control valve
4 Measurement of injection
rate (discharge weighing)
5 Control of conveying gas
Top left:
Outlet control unit of a
MEPOL conveyor.

Thus the Polysius MEPOL technology ensures a

high dosing accuracy for each desulphurisation
reagent during the whole injection process.
Combined with the metallurgical process
computer the MEPOL systems ensure the
cost-optimised desulphurisation of each
hot metal charge.
High operating reliability and plant availability in
combination with favourable operating costs and
high process flexibility are the most important
criteria for the quality of the hot metal desulphurisation plant:
In plants designed by Polysius, such important
components as the discharge control valve
and the pressure controller are made of wearresistant ceramic to ensure a high plant availability. At wear-intensive locations (e.g. at pipe
bends) MEFLEX hoses are used.

Wear-resistant
discharge control
valve.

MEFLEX hose for

particularly abrasive
materials.

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Hot metal desulphurisation plants.

. . . from a single source right down

to the details.

Injection lance
in the lance insertion
unit after the
injection procedure.

Hot metal desulphurisation

in an Austrian steel works with
two treatment stations.

Polysius AG
Graf-Galen-Strae 17
59269 Beckum / Deutschland
Tel.: +49 - (0)25 25 - 99-0
Fax: +49 - (0)25 25 - 99-2100
e-mail: polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
www.polysius.com

Polysius de Mxico S.A. de C.V.

Sierra Gamn # 120, 8 Piso
Lomas de Chapultepec
11000 Mxico, D.F./Mxico
Tel.: +52 - (0)55 - 52 84 01 00
Fax: +52 - (0)55 - 52 84 02 73
e-mail: mx.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

A company of
ThyssenKrupp Technologies

Polysius do Brasil Ltda.

Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima 1572 - 14 andar
Jardim Paulistano
01452-908 So Paulo / SP / Brasil
Tel.: +55 - (0)11 - 3811 45 00
Fax: +55 - (0)11 - 3097 81 44
e-mail: br.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

All the plant components come

from a single source, ranging
from the tank vehicle unloading
station
via the
silos
for
storing the desulphurisation
reagents, the dispensers, the
injection systems, the lance
insertion and lance changing
units, the slag skimming machines right up to the control
room and electrical equipment,
the MEPOL pressure-vessel
conveyors and the metallurgical
process computers.
The Polysius scope of supply
also includes the extension,
modernisation and optimisation
of existing hot metal desulphurisation plants, as well as field
assembly, commissioning and
such services as plant and
process inspection.

Probedruck

Polysius Ltd.
The Brackens, London Road
Ascot, Berks. SL5 8BE / England
Tel.: +44 - (0)13 44 - 88 41 61
Fax: +44 - (0)13 44 - 88 64 38
e-mail: uk.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

Metallurgical process computer in the

control room. (Centre) Slag skimming
machine also remotely controllable from
the control room.

Ladle car with

tilting device.

Polysius S. A.S.
770, Avenue Guilibert de la Lauzire
13290 Aix en Provence / France
Tel.: +33 - 4 42 - 16 61 00
Fax: +33 - 4 42 - 16 61 02
e-mail: fr.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius S. A.
Pl. Manuel Gmez Moreno, s/n
Edificio Bronce
28020 Madrid / Espaa
Tel.: +34 - (0)91 - 5 55 80 40
Fax: +34 - (0)91 - 5 55 47 89
e-mail: es.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius Corp.
180 Interstate North Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339-2194 / USA
Tel.: +1 - 7 70 - 955 - 36 60
Fax: +1 - 7 70 - 955 - 87 89
e-mail: us.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

Polysius de Argentina S. A.
25 de Mayo 596 - Piso 14
(1002) Buenos Aires / Argentina
Tel.: +54-11-43 11 60 46 / 7
Fax: +54-11-43 11 60 45
e-mail: ar.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius
a division of ThyssenKrupp Engineering (Pty.) Ltd.
71 Nanyuki Road
Sunninghill 2157
South Africa
Tel.: +27 - (0)11 - 236 - 10 00
Fax: +27 - (0)11 - 236 - 13 01
e-mail: za.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
3 International Business Park
# 06-08 Nordic European Centre
Singapore 609927
Tel.: +65 - 68 90 16 28
Fax: +65 - 68 90 16 35
e-mail: sg.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com
Polysius
a division of ThyssenKrupp Engineering
(Australia) Pty. Ltd.
8 Business Park Drive
Notting Hill, Vic. 3168 /Australia
Tel.: +61 - (0)3 - 95 58 86 66
Fax: +61 - (0)3 - 95 58 84 88
e-mail: au.polysius@thyssenkrupp.com

A company of
ThyssenKrupp
Technologies

Polysius

ThyssenKrupp

Polysius offers turnkey hot

metal desulphurisation plants
which are precisely tailored
to the production range of the
respective steel works.

1594/GB (2.0 06.05 Cr) Printed in Germany

Delivery programme