The oxygen blast furnace (OBF) of Baosteel Group Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Bayi Iron & Steel), which opened on July 15, 2020, has made ground-breaking progress in the first phase of its industrial experiment early this year. The blast oxygen content has reached 35%, marking that with the first OBF entering the industrial test stage...

2020 is a year full of challenges for the global iron and steel industry- Demands for iron & steel have seen a sharp fall, and relevant manufacturers have been confronted with huge difficulties in their regular production and operation, resulting in a dramatic drop in worldwide iron and steel output. In the second half of this year, as the epidemic in China and other countries was brought u...

1. Preface In the past 20 years, China’s economy has been in a steady and rapid development stage when the production processes of industries such as iron & steel manufacturing, non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, furnace energy saving, environmental protection, glass and paper making have been continuously upgraded and innovated. The process optimization and production capacity ex...

Zezhou Golden Autumn Foundry Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Golden Autumn Foundry) completed its technological upgrading project in 2019 for the cast iron manufacturing with an annual output of 100,000 tons. In order to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, Golden Autumn Foundry equipped the foundry blast furnace with an oxygen-rich PSA oxygen unit (2500Nm3/h,80...

This is a ranking of the 50 top steel-producing companies in 2019. ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg stands at the 1st with steel production of 97.31 million tons. Of all companies, 28 manufacturers, accounting for more than 50%, are Chinese enterprises. As Worldsteel stated, China still maintains the leading position in steel manufacturing with a total steel output of 996.3 Mt，followed by I...

In 2019, the Indian steel industry continued to expand. China remained world’s largest crude steel producer in same period (996 mt) followed by India (111mt), Japan (99mt) and the USA (88mt). According to data from the World Steel Association, India’s crude steel production increased by 1.9 million tons in 2019 to 111.2 million tons which ranks 2nd in the world, accounting for 6% of...

Oxygen, an important industrial gas, is widely used in iron and steel manufacturing, non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, furnace & kiln energy saving, environmental protection (wastewater treatment, waste burning, etc.), glass manufacturing, paper making, medical treatment and other industries. Vacuum pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation plant (abbreviated to VPSA oxygen pl...

On May 21, 2020, the annual summary meeting of PKU Pioneer was held. The plenary meeting originally held in March every year was postponed to May this year due to the outbreak. To respond to Peking University's prevention and control measures and avoid mass gatherings, the 2019 summary meeting was hosted online for the first time, which was different from the past. Zhang Jiaping, the...

Based on the American BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) estimates, the number of people employed by iron & steel mills and steel product manufacturing groups in 2018 was 378,000. iron & steel mills and steel product manufacturing industry proved to be the 78th one with the highest income among the 269 industry groups in the United States, followed by the alcoholic beverage industr...

With the effective control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, the total market demand has gradually picked up. As of April 21, 178 of the 191 (nearly 93.2%) enterprises monitored by the China Iron & Steel Association were back in production. The release of iron and steel capacity has been accelerated with a significant increase in the production. As a result, the demand for the ...