7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

The steelmaking is based on the use of hot metal and scrap, whereas hot metal is produced by the reduction of iron ores mainly in today’s dominating technology, the blast furnace route. Beside the blast furnace, raw material preparation in the form of coke-making and agglomeration of fine ore in the sintering plant is required. The innovative process concept of FINEX® offers an alternative blast furnace route and produces identical hot metal, however without coke oven and sintering plant. The unique characteristics of the FINEX® Process, its ability to use low-cost raw materials, the competitive production costs and environmental advantages and the well proven plant concept demonstrate that the FINEX® Process can be considered as a competitive alternative to the blast furnace route. Main topics of this presentation are the description of development steps during the design stage of the recently installed Finex® F-2.0M plant, a review of operating results from the FINEX® F-2.0M plant and new technological developments concerning energy efficiency in the FINEX® off-gas.