Up-to-dateness, small size, optimal capacity utilisation. Kamet-Steel's Oxygen and Compressor Shop is in the process of upgrading its compressed air system, which will help power engineers improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption of the enterprise.
The equipment modernisation project is being implemented at the site of compressed air production, which is required both to ensure the operation of the plant's iron and steel making divisions and to further produce oxygen for the plant's needs.
The energy-saving measures primarily involve replacing the old K-1500 compressor with new SM6100 compressor equipment from Hanwha Power Systems, a South Korean company.
Four modern compressors with the appropriate total capacity will ensure the optimization of the compressed air system, more flexibility in regulating the use of compressor capacities in optimal modes, and more rapid response to the real needs of the enterprise's subdivisions, i.e. operating in a more cost-effective mode.
Andrii Pysmennyi
The project has now reached the stage of installing new compressor equipment. The K-1500 compressor, which has been in operation at the plant since 1978, has been dismantled.
Andrii PYSMENNYI, Head of the Oxygen Compressor Shop:
"The modernisation of the compressed air system is another step towards modern energy efficiency standards. The new compressor complex is a reliable equipment with modern working conditions for personnel, which provide for the automation of technological processes, primarily the maintenance of the specified pressure parameters. Most importantly, we expect this equipment to reduce the specific electricity consumption for compressed air production by at least 22% compared to the baseline level when supplying this product to the customers of the enterprise".
