The company's specialists have carried out installation supervision, installation of the refractory lining, installation of gas equipment and automation system provided precommissioning and personnel training.
As the chief metallurgist of the plant Vladimir Bondarenko noted that the new furnace was intended for heating blanks for forging on forging hammers. "The width of the working space of each chamber is 1050 mm, length - 1650 mm, height - 1000 mm, load capacity - 3 tons, the total load capacity of the furnace - 6 tons. Maximum heating temperature reaches 12500°С. The equipment is completely automated".
The heating bogie hearth furnace is distinguished by special efficiency due to high heating rate of metal. Owning to the installed recuperators for heating air gas saving is achieved about 20%. Resulting from launching this equipment, environmental indicators are expected to improve and production culture is likely to increase at the enterprise.
Currently, the first loads on heat treatment are being performed in the furnace.
According to the Chief Engineer of "Turboatom" Grigoriy Ishchenko, this year the steam turbine workshop (No. 53) plans to commission another gas furnace, "Within the reconstruction of foundry and metallurgical production we have already launched 9 thermal furnaces (5 gas and 4 electric ones). The final stage of the global reconstruction will be the modernization of two steelmaking furnaces. We plan to carry out this work in 2015", he noted.
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