Shop Layout

Layout requires rational arrangement of equipments to ensure smooth handling of solid raw materials like scrap, fluxes, movement of oxygen lance and hot metal. Also layout should ensure smooth flow of ladles containing hot metal and steel. The refining of hot metal to steel is very fast and hence an efficient system of material transport and weighing is required.

Some essential considerations of layout

• A tall shop is required to raise and lower the lance in the vessel
• An elaborate gas cleaning facilities are required.
• The number of vessels in a shop may be generally two or three and one out of two or two out of three operating at a time.
• The refractory lining maintenance facilities must be adequate.
• An efficient process control strategy using computers and automatic spectro-chemical analytical methods is required.
• The shop is provided with separate cranes for handling hot metal, refined steel, scrap and slag
• The hot metal mixer should be located on the ground floor.

Feed Materials:

• Hot metal
• Cold pig iron
• Steel scrap
• Fluxes
• Gaseous oxygen