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A digital brain to process control system for minimizing the primary oxide scale
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Virtuo® OptiScale
A digital brain to process control system for minimizing the primary oxide scale
Label Date
March 22, 2021
By
Fives
From
France
Maturity stage
TRL 9 / CRI 2 - Commercial Trial Small Scale
Oxide scale is both a product quality, a productivity and an environmental issue. Steelmakers spend time and money trying to achieve their desired surface quality and remove oxide scale from the furnace. Virtuo® OptiScale is an advanced new digital tool designed to achieve oxide scale efficiently and intelligently. Using lasers and infrared cameras, it scans the steel slab as it passes through the furnace and automatically adjusts furnace parameters to reduce oxide scale and prevent non-adherent oxide scaling. Even better, the software uses machine learning to continually evolve its understanding so that it can predict scale loss for all products being heated in the furnace. The modelling is automatically updated with the latest information from the furnace. With this technology, scale loss can be reduced by up to 30% and the related quality, cost, maintenance and environmental concerns are minimized.
The Environmental Benefits
- •5% to 30% reduction on the scale loss for slab reheating furnaces
- •Optimize the steel product surface quality
- •6065 tons of yearly savings on the steel production for a 380 t/h reheating furnace
- •2,1 GWh of annual savings for a 380 t/h reheating furnace
The Financial Benefits
- •More than 2 M€ of annual savings for a 380 t/h flat product reheating furnace
- •Payback time under 1 year
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Fives
Fives, an industrial engineering group with an extensive multi-sector expertise
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75009 Paris, France
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