OREANDA-NEWS. PJSC “Ilyich Iron & Steel Works” of METINVEST GROUP has reduced expenses for purchase the energy resources on 75 million UAH in 2013. Reduction of energy intensity of production is the result of integrated program realized at the.

Among the main achievements of the enterprise for the last year is the implementation of the energy management system in accordance with International Standard ISO 50001:2011. This innovation allows reducing energy consumption systematically and regulates the measures implementation aimed at the decrease of production harmful effect for environment.

Shop commissions on the energy saving are established and in successful operation at “Ilyich Iron and Steel Works” for the purpose of production energy efficiency increase. The main task of these commissions is detection and prevention of fuel and energy resources losses.

In 2013 a range of sufficient energy saving measures were brought into effect at “Ilyich Iron and Steel Works”. The installation of the remote air consumption adjustment system on the blast furnace №1 air heater block assisted to decrease in the consumption of the natural gas on 1,1 million m3. This allowed to safe more than 4 million hryvnas. Due to the modernization of the ignition furnace of sinter machine №9 it was managed to decrease the consumption of the natural gas on 266 thousand m3, this safes about 1 million hryvnas. The optimization of the equipment operation modes in the oxygen shop and in the energy cogeneration shops decreased the costs for the purchase the energy resources on 25, 5 million hryvnas.

Due to putting into the operation of the unit of pulverized coal fuel injection to the blast furnace hearths (pulverized coal fuel) the consumption of the skip coke was decreased on 128, 15 kg/t in comparison with 2012 year and amounted to 395, 4 kg/t. Besides in 2013 due to the mastering of the pulverized coal fuel technology the consumption of the natural gas for the injection into blast furnaces made up 1,14 m3/t of pig iron that is on 34,46 m3/t lower in the comparison with 2012 year - 35,6 m3/t.

“Scientific progress and the implementation of modern technologies open new opportunities of the metallurgists, among which is the decrease in the production energy-output ratio. And we intend to use them maximally for the production efficiency increase. The cost of the natural gas and electric energy are the determinative factors of our production cost price. Today “Ilyich Iron and Steel Works” pays intent attention to the modernization of the production facilities and implementation of the progressive energy saving developments and initiatives,” - noted Yurij Zinchenko, the General Director of PJSC “Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol”.