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Combined system for producing steel and method for operating the combined system

US10781498B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

thyssenkrupp AG · DE

Inventors

Reinhold Achatz · Essen, DE
Jens Wagner · Untergruppenbach, DE
Markus Oles · Hattingen, DE
Peter Schmöle · Dortmund, DE
Ralph Kleinschmidt · Pulheim, DE
Christoph Meißner · Dortmund, DE
Niels Bredemeyer · Waltrop, DE
Johannes Volkl · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 11, 2014
Grant date	Sep 22, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 5, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P20/133
WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a plant complex for steel production comprising a blast furnace for producing pig iron, a converter steel mill for producing crude steel and a gas-conducting system for gases that occur when producing the pig iron and/or producing the crude steel. According to the invention, the plant complex additionally has a chemical plant or biotechnological plant, connected to the gas-conducting system, and also energy storage for covering at least part of the electricity demand of the plant complex. Also the subject of the invention is a method for operating the plant complex.

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