Environmental Impacts assessment of Iranian steel industrial group plan
Client: Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade-Iranian steel industrial national group Project geographical location : Khuzestan Province - Ahvaz city Project description:
The Iranian steel industrial national group reduction plan by heavy metal industry application in approximately ... hector, nearby Ahvaz pipes and rolls unites, Kavyan roll and Farsist are exist In this plan , the MIDREX method has been considered in the field of Direct Reduced Iron into sponge iron by utilizing natural gas, which have more advantages because of shortage water and natural gas consumption, more efficiency, less energy utilize, more flexibility in designing and have more merits and it causes to increase construction quality ,exploiting amount of production and decreasing pollutants emission. EIA studies have been considered in this plan in order to preparing environmental management system frame and environmental monitoring plan by notice to the role and health management instruction, safety and environment. Producing 800 thousand tones sponge iron annually, by usage MIDREX process as an environmentally friendly steel production technology , which has less environmental impacts by comparison with other methods. Reusing of scraps iron due to direct reduction process in briquetting machine unit and reduction productive scraps of current units through reusing them to increasing efficiency and preventing environmental pollution Taking plan's economic merits through direct benefit, decreasing raw materials and saving energy consumption and resources as well as , Reducing imports of steel products. Optimal operation of current economic bases in Iranian steel industrial group and creation career opportunities Utilizing foreign investment about 36 percent of the total operational cost