Sulfur partition by process stages of metallurgical production of JSC EVRAZ NTMK

The current level of development of the industry requires the manufacture of steel with high purity in relation to detrimental impurities. Sulfur is one of such impurities that significantly reduces the service properties, the content of which is strictly regulated in the finished product. Deep desulfurization may be achieved through development of cross-cutting technology of metal production as a single process including agglomeration and blast-furnace process and steelmaking. Sulfur partition by metallurgical process stages via conversion from raw materials of the blast-furnace process to steel continuously cast blank is studied in this work. It is shown that removal of sulfur from the half-finished product at the desulfurization plant will not provide the required sulfur content (less than 0.005 %) in the steel ingot. It is determined that the activity plan comprising treatment of the half-finished product at the desulfurization plant, smelting in the converter, treatment of steel at the ladle furnace unit and then in the vacuum vessel is required to obtain the final content of sulfur of less than 0.005%. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd