OREANDA-NEWS. "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works as a part of technological modernization strategy of Metinvest Group is fully put into operation a new gas-cleaning equipment on the sintering machine №2, in accordance with the trilateral agreement between the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya Regional Council and "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works. Investments in construction of the gas cleaning for sinter machine №2 were about 80 million UAH.

A new gas cleaning equipment of sinter machine №2 enables to achieve air purification from dust on the European standards level - up to 50 mg / m3 and for sulfur dioxide - below 400 mg / m3.

"We have achieved European environmental standards for gas cleaning of sinter machine №2 by combining the efforts of professional Ukrainian mechanic engineers and high-performance German technology," - the CEO of "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works Rostislav Shurma mentioned.

Construction of the gas cleaning for sinter machine №2 was carried out by specialists of the Ukrainian company LLC "Progress Group" (Berdichev machine-building plant "Progress") as well as by equipment and process solutions of the company REITZ (Germany).

Operating principle of the new gas cleaning of sinter machine №2 is multistage purification of exhaust gases: the gas is cleaned in two bag filters; collected iron-containing dust from the bag filter goes back to sintering production. Within the framework of the project it was installed two bag filters, draft equipment consisting of three machines: axial fan, exhaust fan and exhauster.

At the moment, "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works has started construction of a new gas cleaning equipment to the rest of sintering machines - №3-6 that enables to achieve international environmental standards on the level of dust cleaning and gas emissions.