UDC 669 . 162 . 2 Latest Blast Furnace Relining （UDC 669。）.pdfVIP

NIPPON STEEL TECHNICAL REPORT No. 94 July 2006 UDC 669 . 162 . 2 Latest Blast Furnace Relining Technology at Nippon Steel Koji KAWAOKA*1 Kuniyoshi ANAN*1 Akihiro TSUDA*1 Kazumoto KAKIUCHI*2 Yoshiyuki MATSUOKA*3 Hiroki TAKESHITA*4 Kiyoshi NISHIOKA*5 Hiroshi TAKASAKI*6 Abstract Nippon Steel’s blast furnaces in operation are nine at present, reduced by half in number, compared to those in the middle of the 1970s when large blast furnaces of 3 the 5,000 m -class inner volume began to be constructed. During that time, given the increasingly urgent imperatives for total-cost reduction, such as each furnace’s up- ward flexibility in production, longer service life, labor savings, shorter relining periods, etc., we have vigorously pressed forward with the development and industri- alization of corresponding equipment technologies. Some of the new equipment tech- nologies achieved against this background include: the inner-volume expansion dur- ing relining, the hearth-wall life extension by the improved quality of carbon blocks, the shaft life extension by the adoption of copper staves, mechanization of cas