thyssenkupp Steel Europe will receive more than 250 new recuperative burners. These are designated for single ended radiant tubes (I-tubes) and W-Type radiant tubes. Final installation will be at FBA 7 of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, Bochum (Germany), and delivery of the new combustion system will take place at the end of 2021. Commissioning is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022.
Tenova LOI Thermprocess placed the order and is part of a wider modernization project of a continuous galvanizing line at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe. The new combustion system, provided by German based burner manufacturer IBS Industrial Burner Systems, meets the highest requirements by targeting NOx-emissions lower than 140 mg/Nm³ @3%O2 – reference at target strip temperatures above 1652°F (900°C).
Managing Partners
IBS Industrial Burner Systems GmbH
“This order is the latest of numerous appreciations of our efforts to provide state-of-the-art combustion systems for our customers,” states Bernd Machovsky, managing partner of IBS. His co-partner, Thomas Wolf, emphasizes, “Our ambition [. . .] is to provide environmentally sound and energy efficient solutions for all kinds of continuous strip lines, no matter if W-, double-P or I-Radiant Tube fired.”
With their LOOPFIRE®-technology, the burner manufacturer is able to achieve very low NOx-emissions simultaneously with highest thermal efficiencies of W-Type radiant tube burners, even when burning gases such as Coke Oven Gas (COG) and Coke-Oven / Blast-Furnace (COG/BFG) Mixed Gas.
