Ternium, a high quality steel manufacturer in the Americas, recently had two new 400 t/h walking beam furnaces (WBF) started at their hot strip mill facility in Pesqueria, Mexico.
Features of the WBFs will reduce emissions and provide energy savings. The Tenova furnaces are designed to heat steel slabs up to 39 t at 2282°F (1250°C), with a specific consumption of 1.16 MJ/Kg, while keeping NOx emissions lower than 60 ppm. This emissions level is well below the required limit.
The furnaces features include a SmartBurner Monitoring System (SBMS), which enables the monitoring and optimizing of the burner’s performance, operation and maintenance. The SBMS is a network of embedded sensors connected to the Tenova digital infrastructure through secure connection protocols and intrinsic system reliability. The collected data is post-processed locally on an edge computing unit as well as remotely on the Tenova cloud. By constantly monitoring the status of the burner, the SBMS offers breakthrough approaches to inspection, maintenance and tuning, as well as reducing safety risks related to on-site operations.
Pesquería Plant Director
Ternium
“The Ternium Industrial Center started its first phase in 2013 focused on downstream products as cold rolled and galvanized for the industrial market. Now, we have started up the main production line of the 2nd phase, a new hot rolling mill with a capacity of 4.4 million tons," said Paulo Lopez, Pesquería plant director at Ternium. "The two new WBFs are part of the plant’s new lines and will produce coils to be used in the automotive market in the USMCA area [. . .]."
"This new Tenova equipment joins the previous walking beam furnaces built for Ternium at its plants in San Nicolas, Argentina and in Monterrey, Mexico [. . .]," stated Nicola Cavero, senior vice president of Tenova Italimpianti. "This represents an important new reference for Tenova in the reheating furnaces market."
