Meet Innovations

Installation of thermal cameras on the reheating furnaces to measure temperature along the length of billet to minimize generation of scale

Detecting inner defects of workpiece with IT instruments to minimize waste on cutting (control on all of the cutters):

• scanning of workpiece defects after stand 6, automated adjustment of cutter crops.
• scanning of workpiece defects at the cutter - prompts to operator

Introduction of a system to detect surface defects when rolling ingots in the roughing shop, optimization of flame scaler modes to remove defects

System of video analysis to detect defects in hot or cool slabs/blooms in progress of casting (including geometry and form of billet)

System of video analysis of grain size of the incoming coal raw material and the in-line express analysis of the quality of coal raw material for the produced concentrate.

Expert dozing system for iron ore components of the feed

Expert system to forecast coke quality (coke quality and mix of grades)

Prompter of circulation and storage of raw materials

Monitoring of technical condition of the refractories

highly basic white slag is generated, which may be reused in steelmaking after processing (pelletizing) or used in agriculture or construction, etc.

The system must determine the level of expansion of the bath in real time by the flame color, noise and vibration of the tuyere, and to transmit signals to distributor operator's dashboard.

Improvement of performance of converter melting through optimization of blowing modes

Avoiding metal coating of the surface of oxygen tuyere and screening panels.

Laser system to set up geometry on the equipment

Reduction of non-metallic inclusions in rail steel by audit of the current technology, search for reasons and nature of generation and design/adjustment of technology based on the fundamental conclusions with development of a digital twin of the process chain

System of management of flows between BF and Steelmaking units (control of ladle heating, positioning, cooperation between BF and BOF unit, end-to-end analysis of hot iron amounts).

Analysis of the position of the skip hoist drum

Video analysis for the tuyere zones and control of theoretical burning temperature by tuyere

Automated control system for dry coke quenching process - maintaining stable composition of circulating gas

Automated control of dozing coal concentrates - adjustment of dozing setup recalculated to dry weight

End-to-end control of coal supply: reduction of variability of the key quality parameters and consideration to BF requests (ash, humidity and other quality parameters) to ensure maximum economical value in the chain from the wash plant to coke plant (including reduction of variability within the coal grades).

New solutions relating to protection or repair of the surface of graphitized electrodes of EAF unit

A system of calculation and control of strain of the workpiece in the rolling stands considering the angular velocity

Online control and forecasting of chemical composition of ladle-furnace slag

Forecasting of quantity and composition of non-metallic inclusions in the finished long products depending on the steelmaking technology

Expert prompter system for magnetic separators - static model to optimize magnetic separator process parameters according to information about the incoming raw materials, target quality of concentrate, technical parameters of the machine, measurements of waste in tails and other data - the key parameters to be defined by the machine learning model.

Control of drums that disengage with the drive - rotation sensors on the magnetic separator drums

Computer vision or in-line analyzer after sinter plant to determine FeO in sinter.

System to define the size of material after crushing of fuel and flux

Expert system to perform online inspection of the condition of the main rope(s) of the skip hoist

Augmented reality system to visualize underground cables and to lay railway tracks

Video control of quality of loading the rock mass on dump cars, oversize pieces of rock.

A system to reduce Fe wasted in tails

Model of forecasting of planned consumption by hour using machine learning based on

Digital twin of the Power plant - optimization of the operating mode of the main equipment by constructing a thermodynamic model and the possibility of testing different modes of its operation

The use of optimization models to select operating mode of water supply system pumps, including using frequency of converters

Advanced control systems for end-to-end planning of storage

Final cleaning of empty wagons to reduce waste and downtime before delivering the wagons for loading: video control of wagons after unloading and routing o track with compressed air source/mechanic brush

Truck transportation optimization through imitation modeling

Determination of the density of closing doors of coke oven batteries

3D printing of spare parts for various machines and units of EVRAZ entities.