Essar Steel Algoma’s chief operating officer Armando Plastino remarked, “We are most pleased with the results. This technology is state-of-the-art and has been designed with excess capacity. Even when production levels improve air quality will be protected both within the operation and beyond the steelworks.”
With a footprint equivalent to half of an NHL rink, the baghouse possess a filtering capacity of 940,000 cubic feet per minute and a 99.9% efficiency rate. Powered by two energy-efficient 3500 horsepower fan motors with variable frequency drives, the baghouse consumes considerably less energy than those with conventional fixed speed drives.
Final tuning and balancing of the control systems is now underway. Essar plans to host an official ribbon cutting in the near future.
