BlueScope Port Kembla steel plant
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BlueScope Port Kembla steel plant, also known as Port Kembla Steelworks, Australian Iron and Steel Limited (AIS, predecessor), and BlueScope Flat Products, is a 3200 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.
- Location: Five Islands Road, Port Kembla, NSW, 2505 Australia[1]
- Coordinates (WGS 84): -34.463834, 150.886191 (exact)
Background
BlueScope's Port Kembla steelworks is the largest crude steel production plant in Australia.[2]
Low-emissions/green steelmaking
This steel plant is associated with a green steel project tracked in the Green Steel Tracker. Details about the project are included below.
- Company: Bluescope
- Stated company climate target for 2030: 30% reduction (baseline 2018)
- Stated company climate target for 2050: carbon neutrality
- Project name: Port Kembla Steelworks Renewables & Emissions Reduction Study
- Project website: https://arena.gov.au/projects/port-kembla-steelworks-renewables-emissions-reduction-study/
- Location: Australia
- Coordinates: -34.463834, 150.886191 (exact)
- Project scale: R&D partnership
- Technology category: DR --> H-DR
- Specific technology: Co-injection of H2 --> H-DR
- Hydrogen type: Not stated
- Year online: 2023
- Size (m USD): 1.3
- Steel production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
- Iron production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
- Hydrogen capacity generation (MW): N/A
- Carbon capture capacity (Mtpa CO2): N/A
- Partners: University of Wollongong, Future Fuels CRC
- Date of announcement: 06/16/2022
All references for the above data are available in the Green Steel Tracker.
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Workforce size |
|---|---|---|
| operating[3] | 1928[4] | 3000[5] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Owner | Owner company PermID |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlueScope Steel Ltd [100%][6] | 4295858761 [100%] | BlueScope Steel Ltd[7] | 4295858761 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished; finished rolled[3] | slab, hot rolled coil, plate[3] | building and infrastructure[8] | 2021[9] | blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[10] | coking plant; sinter plant; BOF (# unknown)[11][12][10][13] |
Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
| Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|
| 3200 TTPA[14][15][16][10] | 3200 TTPA |
Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
| Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|
| 3000 TTPA[10] | 3000 TTPA |
Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Sinter | Coke |
|---|---|
| >0 TTPA[17] | >0 TTPA[18] |
Blast Furnace Details
Table 7: Blast Furnace Details:
| Unit name | Status | Start date | Stop date | Current size | Current capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | operating[19] | 1972[19] | 2026[19][20] | 3427 m³[21] | 3000 TTPA[10] |
| 6 | mothballed[22] | 1996[22] | 2011[23] | 3208 m³[21] | 3000 TTPA[24][10] |
Articles and Resources
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220112171124/http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/our-company/office-locator. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ About Us, BlueScope Illawarra, Retrieved on: May 20, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220121110219/https://www.bluescope.com/about-us/our-business/australian-steel-products/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211221045656/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220309183245/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/working-at-bluescope/. Archived from the original on 2022-03-09.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220111171626/https://www.aist.org/news/steel-news/2021/september/bluescope-steel-considers-new-u-s-site. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211205141952/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/about-us/. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210817234205/http://www.steel.com.au/articles/environmental-product-declarations. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220319201848/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/bluescope-corporate-umbraco-media/media/3185/bsi_iso14001-asp-certificate.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-19.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 https://web.archive.org/web/20220119214445/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/about-us/how-steel-is-made/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-19.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210817233442/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/news-media/2020/05/sinter-plant-waste-gas-cleaning-plant-bypass-update/?filter. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220309185642/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/community/skylineimages/. Archived from the original on 2022-03-09.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220126212513/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/about-us/our-history/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2022 AIST Basic Oxygen Furnace Roundup
- ↑ Association for Iron and Steel Technology
- ↑ April 2022
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220818015415/https://www.bluescope.com:443/investors/investor-news/2014/10/restart-of-the-port-kembla-steelworks-sinter-plant/. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220808011046/https://www.bluescope.com:443/bluescope-news/2020/05/bluescope-processes-support-nsw-hospitals/. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220921001857/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-21/bluescope-half-yearly-profit-port-kembla-/100847170. Archived from the original on 2022-09-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221025031734/https://www.bluescopeillawarra.com.au/pksw-no6-blast-furnace-reline/. Archived from the original on 2022-10-25.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 21.0 21.1 https://www.readkong.com/page/reengineering-bluescope-steel-s-port-kembla-sinter-plant-4335944.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 22.0 22.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20221031105320/https://www.bluescope.com/bluescope-news/2021/02/port-kembla-steelworks-blast-furnace-reline/. Archived from the original on 2022-10-31.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220523153031/https://www.afr.com/companies/manufacturing/bluescope-eyes-800m-upgrade-of-port-kembla-steelworks-20210219-p57469. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221011031931/https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=EXH-39167964%2120220721T233107.814%20GMT. Archived from the original on 2022-10-11.
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