CISDI is creating greener credentials for Vietnam’s steel projects

Vietnam sits on the Belt and Road Initiative routes, where steel has become one of the important pivots of industrial transformation.

CISDI is committed to providing advanced green, energy-conserving tech, equipment and solutions for a number of steel constructions in Vietnam.

Its on-going services at Hoa Phat Dung Quất (phase II stockyard and 1,780mm hot rolling line reheating furnace) and Formosa Ha Tinh (rotary hearth furnace) are gaining tailwinds and have been praised by both companies.

✧           Building a world-class and eco-friendly smart stockyard at Hoa Phat’s Dung Quất phase II plant

CISDI’s patented ECIA-C stockyard is about to go into operation at Dung Quất plant’s phase II. Its fully-enclosed structure will boost environmental protection performance and its digital, smart control and management systems will enable the plant to achieve world-leading green and smart standards.

CISDI’s highly-skilled onsite team is now sprinting ahead, ensuring each quality detail and procedure is strictly controlled and is working to ensure that the project goes operational on-schedule.

“The upcoming start-up has great potential to strengthen relations between the Chinese and Vietnamese,” CISDI’s project manager said.

“We also took part in local cultural events, forging a close affinity with the Hoa Phat team, the Vietnamese building company and local residents.”

 

CISDI’s engineers, providing technical assistance at the Dung Quất stockyard

 

✧           CISDI aims for another smooth reheating furnace start-up in Vietnam

Dung Quất’s 1,780mm-specification hot strip rolling line is being built with three reheating furnaces which will each feature CISDI’s green, low-carbon dual regenerative combustion expertise.

It is CISDI’s third project of this kind in Vietnam, having built its first furnace in the country six years ago. “Vietnamese furnaces built and supplied by CISDI have been working very well since their hot commissioning. Furnace cantilever roller tables from CISDI are ultra-reliable and never fail,” commented a bar and wire-rod rolling line head from Dung Quất.

“These strip rolling furnaces are designed for the highly-efficient recovery of excess fume heat and recycling the low-calorific value of fuels, in addition to having a green, low-carbon combustion system. They will become Vietnam’s leading eco-friendly production facilities and will result in reduced emissions, more energy conservation and enhanced resource reutilisation,” said CISDI’s onsite project manager.

Stable progress has been made throughout the furnaces’ design, procurement, logistics and construction work since ground was broken in January 2024.

Adjustments and optimisations have been swiftly tailored to meet Dung Quất’s exact needs.

 

 

The team from CISDI Thermal is pictured at Dung Quat’s reheating furnace construction site. Tight organisation and a scientific approach to scheduling is fulfilling safety, quality and scheduling targets

 

✧           Tailor-made training for FHS’s rotary hearth furnace production managers

The ASEAN’s first rotary hearth furnace has been installed at Formosa Ha Tinh.

Highly-advanced, solid waste treatment expertise developed by CISDI and other Chinese organisations is built into the RHF and the entire project has been carried out to the highest of standards.

The longstanding problem of iron and zinc-laden dusts and sludges produced during Formosa Ha Tinh’s blast furnace ironmaking and its BOF steelmaking’s OG process will be eradicated.

At the same time, the RHF will recycle valuable elements of iron, zinc and carbon as resources, resulting in significant economic and environmental benefits.

Ground was broken on June 30, 2023 and the furnace’s installation was close to completion exactly a year to the date.

This April, CISDI staged a tailor-made training course for FHS’s production management staff. It was held at Shougang Jingtang Steel in Tangshan City in China’s Hebei Province, which was built by CISDI and has many similarities to FHS’s project site.

The 10-day training focussed on theoretical and practical programmes throughout Jingtang RHF’s processes - proportioning, balling, raw ball drying, furnace processing, producing and fume systems.

FHS’s future managers got instruction on system operations and management and regular maintenance techniques.

Multiple panels were organised by CISDI to give Jingtang’s experts and FHS trainees the opportunity to discuss production anomalies and diagnoses, troubleshooting solutions and ops management skills and methods.

The training sessions will ensure FHS can smoothly take over the RHF’s production and operations after start-up in October 2024.

 

FHS’s trainees were shown around the Jingtang RHF, which was built by CISDI and went operational in 2020   

 

A CISDI project manager and engineer discuss the FHS’s RHF critical equipment installation and testing

 

Two CISDI engineers are pictured onsite explaining the RHF construction scheme to an FHS representative (right)