At the Chelyabinsk zinc plant (metallurgical complex of UMMC) has held the opening ceremony of the oxygen plant with the capacity of 10 thousand cubic meters per hour. A symbolic launch button pressed by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region Alexey Teksler, Director General of the Ural mining and metallurgical company Andrey Kozitsyn and the Director of the Chelyabinsk zinc plant Paul Isbright.
"the Object is really important and necessary for the company for its technology. We all know that oxygen is used for industrial purposes. We are here today at the opening of an oxygen plant which will allow production to depend on external circumstances, - said Alexey Teksler. - When we talk about modern enterprise – we are talking about environmental responsibility. Here we see the newest modern equipment. It allows us to expect that the system will work smoothly and the whole production process will be optymalnym".
the question of the need of an oxygen plant originated in 1995, but the implementation of this important for the enterprise project became possible only after occurrence in the Chelyabinsk branch of the Ural mining and metallurgical company. General Director of UMMC Andrey Kozitsyn congratulated everyone with this event: "Many generations of engineers have dreamt of this event, and finally it came true. You can speak about the need for such a facility for an enterprise, the main thing that we took and implemented this project in just one year and four months. In the future the plant will be even greener and cleaner."
the Director of the Chelyabinsk zinc plant Paul Isbright, in turn, thanked the UMMC and the government of the region for their trust and constructive cooperation in the implementation of the project, said the coordinated work of contractors and staff: "thank you very much to all the staff who work professionally, quickly and very competently in the best traditions of Chelyabinsk zinc plant. This is only a transitional point in our development, we will move dalshe".
the New equipment works on the vacuum technology short-cycle adsorption, based on the selective separation of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, moisture on solid molecular sieves when you change the supply pressure of atmospheric air. That is all the impurities from the air are absorbed, and the purified oxygen flows into production. This mode provides the best recovery rate and high purity of the product, maximum efficiency and economic vygodu.
in addition, the facility aims to provide energy security for the production. Old coloradobased has been in operation for more than 40 years, has a length of 11.3 km, passes through the territory of other organizations and the city. Near coloradobased is the intensive construction that can cause damage, and as the trail passes through remote areas, it increases the duration of accident repairs. The launch of the new station allows to avoid all these potentially dangerous situations.
Cost of the project amounted to 1.7 billion rubles.
reference: Oxygen in the production of JSC "Chelyabinsk branch" is mainly used for enrichment of air supplied to the fluidized bed furnace for roasting zinc concentrates (oxygen consumption the roast shop is more than 98% of the total consumption by the enterprise). Depending on the planned zinc production, the work can be one, two or three kilns. The sudden cessation of kislorodolechenie leads to the violation of the roasting process.
