Congratulations, ArcelorMittal Pecém , in the person of Alex Maia do Nascimento, for the presentation “The Importance of the Co-Products Business” at the FIEC Summit 2024 - Green Hydrogen, held in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, showing the brilliant evolution in the management of by-products at the Pecém steel mill.
The ArcelorMittal Pecém steel mill project was developed with first-world technological routes, both for environmental sustainability and in the production process. Therefore, it is worth highlighting the achievement of low volumes of waste disposed of in landfills at the end of 2023 ( fig 1) totaling 2.5 kt, as well as the high clinkerization rate of steel slag at 98% in the second quarter of 2024 (fig 2). The technological contributions of the project in these two developments, respectively, are highlighted by the MIXING PLANT of Phoenix and BSSF of JE&Tech Co., which, led by the highly qualified ArcelorMittal management, enabled the conversion rate of waste into co-products to reach 99.87% in 2023 (fig 3), finally exceeding the nominal design value (99.6%). This difference, apparently small (0.27% in absolute value) allows for incalculable sustainability gains in monetary terms, but perceived in the total revenue from co-products of R$ 1.03 billion in 2023 (fig 3), with an expected sale of 1.38 Mt of co-products in 2024 (fig 4).
These results confirm the expectations set for this project, considered the only integrated generation 2.5 steel mill outside Japan and Korea, according to the framework presented by Prof. N. Kawabata, from Tohoku University, Japan, in “A Comparative Analysis of Integrated Iron and Steel Companies in East Asia”.
The challenge remains to use the waste disposed of in landfills as a co-product and, considering the presumption, become the first generation 3.0 steel mill in the world!
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