Iron & Steel

 
 

Iron & Steel

Kentz Automation and Drives are actively involved in the iron and steel industry. We have successfully completed many E&I projects on an EPC turnkey basis as greenfield and brownfield projects in the following areas of the iron and steel industry:

  • Blast furnaces
  • Basic oxygen furnaces
  • Electric arc furnaces
  • Continuous casters
  • Hot rolling mills
  • Cold rolling mills
  • Plate mills
  • Rod mills
  • Bar mills
  • Billet mills
  • Water treatment plants

Processing lines such as:

  • Galvanising lines
  • Inspection lines
  • Coil preparation lines
  • Tinning lines
  • Single stand temper mills
  • Twin stand temper mills

We have exceptional expertise in the following aspects in the iron and steel industry:

  • Variable speed drive systems (VSDs)
  • AC variable speed drives systems (VSDs) for both AC and DC solutions. Drive systems implemented vary from fractional kW drives to 3MW or more
  • The solutions implemented for VSDs include MV drives up to 11000V
  • Solutions implemented for Rockwell, Siemens and Control Techniques
  • Ward Leonard control upgrades as well as replacement of Ward Leonard speed control systems
  • Development of software for coordinated speed control applications
  • SCADA systems (WinCC, RSView SE, Wonderware Intouch, Adroit)
  • PLC systems (Rockwell ControlLogix, Siemens S7, GE Fanuc, Group Schneider Modicon)
  • DCS type control systems such as Siemens PCS7, Yokagawa
  • Medium Voltage distribution and switchgear
  • Motor Control Centres
  • Instrumentation
  • PF Correction and Harmonic Filtering

We provide the following project services:

  • Project management
  • Basic design
  • Detail design
  • Load flow analysis
  • Software development
  • Commissioning
  • Training
  • Technical support
  • Engineering and feasibility studies

The following software engineering tools are used during the execution of projects:

  • Intools for instrumentation designs
  • Digsilent for load flow analysis
  • E-plan for electrical designs
  • Autocad 2007
  • Microstation V8

Typical Clients are:

  • Mittal Steel South Africa
  • Highveld Steel South Africa
  • ColumbusStainless Steel South Africa

 

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