Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (part of Evraz Group) has successfully finished testing the dust-exhaust system of its first converter; the latter underwent an overhaul and was launched in November 2007 as part of the company’s four-year steel-smelting equipment upgrade project.

The enterprise’s environmental experts had been gauging the machine’s conservation system’s performance for seventy-two hours and came to a conclusion that upgrading the first converter resulted in cutting down on atmospheric emissions by 2.5 times (from 200 milligrams per cubic meter of air to 80 milligrams per cubic meter of air), the spokesperson for Evraz Group reports.

The dust-exhaust system is a combination of perfect conservation mechanisms, including an exhaust-heat boiler produced by two plants based in Belgorod and Taganrog, and a gas cleaning facility designed for Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works by the Ukrainian Energostal.

The company’s experts believe the new systems are so effective that they need to installed in all the three remaining converters in order to improve on the enterprise’s environmental performance greatly.