The modern, modular pump system concept of Oerlikon Leybold for vacuum technology in steel degassing has proven its effectiveness as Siemens Metals Technologies has ordered another mechanical vacuum system which will be used by an end customer in Mexico.
This vacuum system with an effective pumping speed of almost 600,000 m³/h, is the largest vacuum system built by Leybold in its 164-year history to date. The Siemens VAI customer Altos
Hornos de Mexico., SAB de C.V. (AHMSA) extended the product range of the converter steel mill No. 2 to steel grades for oil and gas industries.
The treatment capacity of the 150-tonne double-RH vacuum degassing should be around two million metric tonnes of liquid steel per year, in approximately 50 batches per day.
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