Core equipment

Furnace charging systems

  • Charging tubes for proper charge distribution with forced air cooling and tube feeders

  • Stationary charging tubes with rod gates and charging chutes

  • Furnace bins with piston flow (segregation free)

  • Conveyor belts for distribution of charge mix to furnace bins

Furnace foundations

  • Concrete foundations with drain system and steel beams on top. Steel beam structure can be used for forced air cooling of furnace bottom and furnace shell sidewalls

  • Foundations for stationary and rotating furnace shells

Furnace shell

  • Shells with forced air cooling

  • Shells with vertical cooling fins for natural convection
  • Shells with water film cooling system

Furnace covers

  • Closed furnace covers with inspection and explosion hatches, produced in stainless steel or normal steel

  • Semi closed furnace smoke hoods with furnace roof, sidewalls and doors, in stainless steel or normal steel

  • Seal rings for closed and open furnaces in stainless steel or normal steel

Electrode columns

  • Hanging hoist cylinders

  • Pneumatic membrane- or fail-safe slipping system

  • Water-cooled or non water-cooled copper flexibles conduct power from secondary conductor system to electrode column

  • Copper bus tubes conduct the power to the contact clamps

  • Water cooled contact clamps in copper of cast or forged type

  • Pressure ring segments in aluminium bronze or pure copper. Segments of cast or forged type and water cooled. Pressure ring segments operated by high pressure water

  • Pressure ring membranes in stainless steel or rubber

  • Water-cooled shields in stainless steel

Secondary conductor systems

  • Copper bus tubes or bus bars conduct power from transformers to electrode columns

 

Tapping equipment

  • Electrical taphole opening device

  • Drilling machine

  • Rabbling machine

  • Mud gun

  • Mobile or stationary tapping systems

  • Ladle cleaners

  • All equipment is radio controlled and hydraulic operated

  • The equipment is being designed for each specific process and according to the customers requirements and demands

Secondary conductor systems

  • Copper bus tubes or bus bars conduct power from transformers to electrode columns

 

Gas cleaning plants

  • Bag filters

  • Venturi wet-scrubber systems

  • Venturi wet-scrubber systems

  • Dedusting systems for subsystems

Vatvedt Group

Olav Haraldssons gate 8-10
P. O. Box 74, N-1701 Sarpsborg, Norway

Telephone: +47 69 13 30 30
Telefax: +47 69 13 30 31