Making More Efficient Use of Blast-Furnace Gas at Russian Metallurgical Plants

This article discusses international practice to date in the operation of combined-cycle power plants (CCP) on blast-furnace gas (BG). It describes the most common schemes of BG use from the European list of the best available technologies for the metallurgical industry. Combined-cycle power plants...

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Published in:Metallurgist (New York) 2016-05, Vol.60 (1-2), p.19-30
Main Authors: Ryzhkov, A. F., Levin, E. I., Filippov, P. S., Abaimov, N. A., Gordeev, S. I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blast furnace practice
Blast furnaces
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Chemistry and Materials Science
Electric power generation
Electric power plants
Explosions
Gas turbine engines
Gas turbines
Materials Science
Metallic Materials
Metallurgy
Natural gas
Power plants
Technology application
Turbines
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Summary:This article discusses international practice to date in the operation of combined-cycle power plants (CCP) on blast-furnace gas (BG). It describes the most common schemes of BG use from the European list of the best available technologies for the metallurgical industry. Combined-cycle power plants in Japan and China are used as examples to demonstrate the technical-economic effectiveness of employing heatrecovery CCPs. The properties of blast-furnace gas are compared to the properties of other industrial gases. The energy potential of blast-furnace gas is calculated and compared to the potential of natural gas. The principles behind the upgrade of a standard gas-turbine power plant to burn blast-furnace gas are examined. The article also presents theoretical results obtained by the authors in the software package Thermoflow to illustrate the efficiency of burning blast-furnace gas in CCPs at Russian plants.
ISSN:0026-0894
1573-8892
DOI:10.1007/s11015-016-0247-1