Clean Development Mechanism Projects

Project Title

Installation of an Energy Efficient Electric Arc Furnace at Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Limited (MUSCO), Jagdishnagar, Khopoli, Maharastra

Country

India

Project description

The project activity entails replacement of an existing energy inefficient Electric Arc Furnace by installing new Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) with the latest energy efficiency measures like high efficiency supersonic oxygen injection system. The purpose of the project activity is to improve the energy efficiency in the steel melting process and thereby reduce GHG emissions associated to energy use. Enhanced agitation in the EAF with increased oxygen injection will significantly improve the gangue removal rate and reduce the electrical energy consumption. Further, complete combustion of the additional coke injected with the increased volume of oxygen will increase the chemical energy input to the bath and this will further reduce the electrical energy consumption. In absence of the project activity, the energy requirement of the existing electric arc furnace is met primarily through grid electricity and a very small quantum of chemical energy is introduced due to carbon combustion as the injection oxygen was very less through a fixed manual oxygen injection system.

The applied methodologies would be AMS IID Version 11 "Energy efficiency and fuel switching measures for industrial facilities".

The project is a Small Scale CDM project activity.

Crediting period is 10 years fixed and expected to start from 01/09/2008.

Estimated annual average emission reduction is 11,376 t-CO2.

The project PP is Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Limited (MUSCO) - a private entity.

Project Design Document (PDD)

Period for comments:Was from the 3rd June to 2nd July 2008
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