At the end of May this year, the "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works filed an application to participate in the competition of the State Architectural-Construction Inspection of Ukraine (SACC) for the best industrial building in 2014. The largest industrial facility construction - hydrochloric acid pickling line in the cold rolling department №1 of the "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works will participate in the competition.
The active phase of construction of the hydrochloric acid pickling line in the cold rolling department №1 and acid regeneration plant (CPL-4) was started in January, 2014 and was put into operation at the end of October, 2014. CPL-4 is a unique industrial facility in Ukraine that has no analogues. Its feature is a fully automated production system, excluding the human factor in mechanism operation. The production capacity of the CPL-4 is 1350 thousand tonnes of pickled metal per year.
"The total investments of the Works in the amount of 1.65 billion hryvnias in 2014 represent the most large-scale investments in the economy of our region and the whole country. Part of these funds is focused on the construction of industrial facility CPL-4, which has no analogues in Ukraine, with only two similar projects implemented worldwide," said the CEO of the "Zaporizhstal" Steel Works, Rostislav Shurma.
During the CPL-4 construction, it was used 3.5 thousand tonnes of steel constructions, 13 thousand cubic meters of concrete, and 30 kilometers of cable products. The industrial facilities area spans 1.45 hectares, and the value of project investments is about 762 million UAH.
CPL-4 has an ecological component, reducing emissions of sulfuric acid fumes by 83%, completely eliminating discharges into the Dnieper River from Cold Rolling Department №1, as well as improving the quality of the metal. The project's uniqueness lies in the fact that all waste acid from the production process is fed to the acid regeneration plant, fully regenerated, and then fed back into production.
The competition results will be known in July, 2015.