Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” has successfully passed the precertification audit for the energy management system ISO 50001:2011, confirming its readiness to pursue certification as part of an integrated system focused on quality management, energy efficiency, welfare, safety, and ecology.
Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” successfully passed the procedure of the precertification audit, which was held by the international company “Bureau Veritas”. The Audit confirmed the readiness of the enterprise to carry out the certification of the system of energy management according to the international standard ISO 50001:2011 as a part of functional integrated system of the quality management, energy efficiency, welfare, and safety and ecology.
Deploying a system of energy management at the Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” is related to the improvement of the effectiveness of the plant’s work, holding a set of measures to define the energy losses, development, and delivery of output in energy saving. Accomplishment of the comprehensive program allowed for a reduction in 2012 of the index of the energy output ratio for the produced steel product by 3% (0.68 GJ/t) in comparison with 2011. However, the basic reduction was achieved during the second half of the year 2012—5.1% (1.16 GJ/t) in comparison with the first part of the year 2011.
Moreover, starting from August 2012, the Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” implemented effective arrangements for the economy of natural gas in steelmaking. Due to the increase in the part of cast iron during steelmaking and the institutional arrangements, it managed to reduce natural gas consumption by 2.79 m³/t, resulting in a saving of about 4 million m³ of natural gas.
“Energy efficiency of the manufacture is the basis of the competitive ability of any iron and steel plant,” emphasized the General Director of the Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal”, Rostislav Shurma. “In our work, we lay stress on the adoption of energy-efficient technologies; by this, we not only reduce our expenses but also conserve the valuable natural gas, the most expensive resource for Ukraine.”
We remind that in November 2012, Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” finished the realization of the project of pulverized coal injection plant and put in force bulk coal storage, which allows the enterprise to reduce natural gas consumption by more than 300 m³ per year.