Ferroalloy processing expertise showcased at INFACON XI

Bateman Engineering showcased its ferroalloy processing expertise at INFACON XI, the international ferroalloys congress, held this year from 18 – 21 February, 2007 in New Delhi, India.

Since ferroalloys are important components of many different grades of steel and are therefore crucial to the global economy, INFACON is an important international technical event. It is held every three years in countries that are generally significant producers of the principal ferroalloys, namely ferrochromium, ferromanganese or ferrosilicon. India’s selection for the 2007 event was particularly appropriate as, while India is already a substantial producer of ferroalloys, in recent years huge planned increases in steel plant capacity have been announced in that country. This has necessitated some major ferroalloy projects to provide enough feedstock for the steel industry.
Bateman Engineering has been involved in the design and construction of processing plants to produce or recycle ferroalloys for many years. Delegates from the Group attending this year’s congress represented Bateman Engineering India; the pyrometallurgical centre of excellence of Bateman Engineering based in South Africa; and Atoll, a company responsible in the Bateman Engineering Group for the operation of waste treatment plants principally to recover ferroalloys from slag by gravity separation using jigs.

Bateman Engineering personnel presented two technical papers. In the first, Mike Shapiro described recent developments in the approach to the design and manufacture of copper cooler panels to enhance the life of furnace refractory linings of furnaces. The second presentation, by Bennie Henning, described a simplified computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for predicting the temperature and velocity distributions in all the fluid zones of a single electrode DC furnace, simultaneously with the temperature distributions in the refractory lining of the vessel. Both technical papers can be viewed in the Technology section of the Bateman Engineering website www.batemanengineering.com

In addition, Bateman Engineering’s booth at the conference highlighted its AC and DC arc furnace capability, the two operational Bateman Engineering offices in Bangalore, India, and Atoll’s typical build-own-operate (BOO) model for its metal recovery plants.

Contact

Ted Fulton – ted.fulton@batemanengineering.com,
Dinesh Kumar Khare – dinesh.khare@batemanengineering.co.in
or Peter Scott – peters@atoll.co.za for further information.

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