Systems Spray-Cooled Delivers Equipment to Nucor Steel Gallatin
September 2020 Nashville, TN – Nucor Steel is expanding the steelmaking capacity at its flat-rolled sheet steel mill located in Ghent, KY. As part of the expansion project, Nucor is adding a new 175-ton EAF that will increase the mill’s annual capacity from 1.6 million tons to approximately 3 million tons of coiled steel.
Systems Spray-Cooled, of The Systems Group, was selected to supply the new EAF and has delivered its first shipment of Spray-Cooled™ equipment to Nucor Steel Gallatin. The Spray-Cooled™ equipment will include 100% of Nucor’s on furnace cooling needs, including the EAF shells, roofs, and fume elbows. The EAF sidewall will incorporate a unique proprietary profile that includes integrated ‘bump-outs’ to help protect the burners and refractory bricks and reduce scrap jams at the slag door opening area. The roof will be a new steep cone design for optimization and extended lifetime. The elbow will incorporate a new integrated drain design that eliminates bolted connections for quicker change-outs. Both the sidewall and roof will have an integrated Resistive Temperature Detector (RTD) system to enable zone monitoring of water temperatures throughout the furnace.
Nucor’s decision to install Spray-Cooled™ equipment was based on the success they have seen at their other EAF shops and on the need for the safest, most environmentally friendly, lowest-cost option (supply and maintenance) along with the extended life and performance for water-cooled equipment.
For further information, contact The Systems Group, 214 N. Washington Ave. Ste 700, El Dorado, AR 71730; phone 870-862-1315; web spraycooled.tsg.bz; email info@tsg.bz.
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Release Date: September 2020
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