AVB Açailândia steel plant
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AVB Açailândia steel plant (Usina siderúrgica AVB Açailândia (Portuguese)), also known as Aço Verde do Brasil steel plant, is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant operating in Açailândia, Maranhão, Brazil.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Açailândia, Maranhão, Brazil:
- Location: Rod BR 222, Km 14,5 nº 69 - Distrito de Pequiá 65930-000 - Açailândia - MA, Brazil
- Coordinates (WGS 84): -4.874373, -47.4073517 (exact)
Background
The AVB Açailândia steel plant is owned by Aço Verdes do Brasil, the steel-making division of Brazil's Grupo Ferroeste.[1]
In 1989 Grupo Ferroeste founded the Gusa Nordeste iron plant in Açailândia, along the Carajás railroad in the state of Maranhão in northeastern Brazil. Pig iron production began at Gusa Nordeste in 1993, growing from 60,000 to 360,000 tonnes annually over the next decade.[2]
In 2008, with support from the Banco do Nordeste, Grupo Ferroeste launched plans to expand its Açailândia operation to include steelmaking.[2] The new plant, known as AVB (Aços Verde do Brasil, or Green Steel of Brazil) began producing liquid steel in December 2015[2][3], and added a facility for the production of wire rod and other laminated products in 2018.[2] The plant's initial production capacity of 420,000 tpa[3] has been increased to 600,000 tpa[4][5], with the addition of two new blast furnaces in 2018[4] and 2021[6].
Grupo Ferroeste has touted AVB as the world's first "green" operation, due to the fact that the plant's blast furnaces burn charcoal from the company's nearly 50,000 hectares of eucalyptus forests as a substitute for coking coal.[2][5] In March 2021 the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) certified AVB's steelmaking operations as carbon-neutral, noting that the plant released less than 0.10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel produced, significantly less than the world average of 1.81 to 1.83 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel[5] or the range of 1.56 to 3.38 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel recorded by the World Steel Association at integrated steel plants worldwide.[7] Other initiatives undertaken by AVB to minimize fossil fuel consumption include the use of hydroelectric power, reuse of BOF and BF process gases, reuse of BF slag for cement production, and reuse of BOF slag to fuel its blast furnaces and basic oxygen furnace.[5][7]
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.
Table 1: Green Steel Project Details
| Project 1 | |
|---|---|
| Company | Aço Verde do Brazil (AVB) |
| Company has climate goals? | Yes |
| Location | Maranhão state, Brazil |
| Project name | AVB charcoal integrated mill |
| Project website | Site |
| Project scale | Full scale |
| Project status | Operating |
| Year to be online | 2018 |
| Technology to be used | Biomass for BF |
| Technology details | BF + Eucalyptus charcoal |
| Iron production capacity (million tonnes per year) | Not applicable |
| Steel production capacity (million tonnes per year) | 0 |
| CO2 capture (million tonnes CO2 per year) | Not applicable |
| Hydrogen generation capacity(MW) | Not applicable |
| Investment size | Not stated |
| Actual start year | 2020 |
| Date of announcement | 2021-03-25 |
Plant Details
Table 2: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Workforce size | Power source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[8] | 2015[9][10][11] | 2300[8] | onsite power plant fueled by blast furnace (BF) gases[12] |
Table 3: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferroeste Industrial Ltda [100.0%] | 4298439227 [100%] | E100000130893 [100%] | Aco Verde do Brasil SA[13] | 4298258196 | E100000130886 |
Table 4: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished; finished rolled[14] | billets, rebar, wire rod[8] | automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery[15] | 2022[16] | BF, BOF[17][18] | 1 BOF (50-tonne)[8][19][20][18] |
Table 5: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 600 TTPA[21][22] | 600 TTPA[21][22] |
Table 6: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 720 TTPA[23][24][23] | 720 TTPA[23][24][23] |
Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BOF Production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 321 TTPA[20][25] | 321 TTPA[20][25] |
| 2021 | 345 TTPA[17] | 345 TTPA[17] |
| 2022 | 388 TTPA[22] | 388 TTPA[22] |
Table 8: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BF Production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 298 TTPA[26][27] | 298 TTPA[26][27] |
| 2021 | 325 TTPA[28] | 325 TTPA[28] |
| 2022 | 362 TTPA[29] | 362 TTPA[29] |
Blast Furnace Details
Table 9: Blast Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Announced date | Construction date | Start date | Current size | Current capacity (ttpa) | Decarbonization technology | Most recent relining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1; "Roberta" | operating[8][19][20][18] | unknown | unknown | 2018-05[18][24][30] | 352 m³[18] | 360[23][24] | unknown | unknown |
| 2; "Regina" | operating[8][19][20][18] | unknown | unknown | 2021-05[21][19][31] | 352 m³[32] | 360[23] | unknown | unknown |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
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