Zezhou Golden Autumn Foundry Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Golden Autumn Foundry) completed its technological upgrading project in 2019 for the cast iron manufacturing with an annual output of 100,000 tons. In order to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, Golden Autumn Foundry equipped the foundry blast furnace with an oxygen-rich PSA oxygen unit (2500Nm3/h,80...

This is a ranking of the 50 top steel-producing companies in 2019. ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg stands at the 1st with steel production of 97.31 million tons. Of all companies, 28 manufacturers, accounting for more than 50%, are Chinese enterprises. As Worldsteel stated, China still maintains the leading position in steel manufacturing with a total steel output of 996.3 Mt，followed by I...

In 2019, the Indian steel industry continued to expand. China remained world’s largest crude steel producer in same period (996 mt) followed by India (111mt), Japan (99mt) and the USA (88mt). According to data from the World Steel Association, India’s crude steel production increased by 1.9 million tons in 2019 to 111.2 million tons which ranks 2nd in the world, accounting for 6% of...

Oxygen, an important industrial gas, is widely used in iron and steel manufacturing, non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, furnace & kiln energy saving, environmental protection (wastewater treatment, waste burning, etc.), glass manufacturing, paper making, medical treatment and other industries. Vacuum pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation plant (abbreviated to VPSA oxygen pl...

On May 21, 2020, the annual summary meeting of PKU Pioneer was held. The plenary meeting originally held in March every year was postponed to May this year due to the outbreak. To respond to Peking University's prevention and control measures and avoid mass gatherings, the 2019 summary meeting was hosted online for the first time, which was different from the past. Zhang Jiaping, the...

Based on the American BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) estimates, the number of people employed by iron & steel mills and steel product manufacturing groups in 2018 was 378,000. iron & steel mills and steel product manufacturing industry proved to be the 78th one with the highest income among the 269 industry groups in the United States, followed by the alcoholic beverage industr...

With the effective control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, the total market demand has gradually picked up. As of April 21, 178 of the 191 (nearly 93.2%) enterprises monitored by the China Iron & Steel Association were back in production. The release of iron and steel capacity has been accelerated with a significant increase in the production. As a result, the demand for the ...

As of April 21, about 99% of China's sizable industrial enterprises under the close monitoring of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) had returned to normal operational orders under the Chinese authorities' persistent efforts in aiding with such enterprises in resuming businesses from the suspension of the COVID-19, according to the MIIT sharing on Apri...

In practical industrial applications, adsorptive separation processes can be generally divided into pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and thermal swing adsorption (TSA). It can be seen from the sorption isotherm of the adsorbent that the adsorbent has a higher adsorption capacity for impurities at high pressure or otherwise lower. At the same time,  the adsorption isobar shows the fact...

Blast furnace capacity utilization among the 247 Chinese steelmakers using blast furnaces recovered further over March 13-19 to 75.26%, a latest survey released on March 13 showed. The rate was up by 1.36 percentage point on week as more China’s steel mills beefed up operations over the period.   The sampled makers' daily molten iron output also grew over the period, rising by 38...