Up-grade of process control system, U.S. Steel Fairfield No. 8 blast furnace
- U.S. Steel, Fairfield, AL (United States). Fairfield Works
- Kvaerner Davy, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
The No. 8 blast furnace at US Steel`s Fairfield, AL facility is the only blast furnace remaining in operating at the plant. The blast furnace has a production capacity of 5,500 tons per day of hot metal and provides 100% of the iron requirements for the steel plant that has an annual production capacity of 2,200,000 tons of steel. Therefore, any outage on No. 8 blast furnace has a major impact on the operation of the total Fairfield facility. During the planning stages of the latest reline outage of No. 8 blast furnace, significant measures were taken to insure that maximum production of iron was maintained before and immediately after the outage. A significant portion of the reline activity was centered on the total replacement of the existing process control system. The scope of replacement was so extensive that it was determined that if all areas of the process control system were replaced during the reline outage, then the installation and commissioning of the new system would have been the critical path on the project. In addition, the requirements for training and start-up of the new process control system would have imposed risks to obtaining maximum production after the reline outage, as operators experienced the learning curve of the new system. It was therefore decided that the critical areas of the new process control system would be installed before the reline outage. In addition, all training and start-up activities would take place on the new working system while it was operating in a `shadow` mode in parallel with the existing system. This would provide a proven process control system for blast furnace operations before the reline outage, and eliminate the learning curve after the outage. The reline outage is described.
- OSTI ID:
- 577415
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9704181-; ISBN 1-886362-23-8; TRN: IM9809%%76
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 56. Ironmaking conference proceedings, Chicago, IL (United States), 13-16 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Ironmaking conference proceedings: Volume 56; PB: 781 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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