Monday, January 23, 2006

Industrial Visit (Steel Plant)

Steel Plant Visit Report

On the 3rd of January 2006 at 9:40 am we visited the steel plant located in rusail.
The name of the steel plant is “modern steel mills” the objective of the visit is to know how the main product is manufactured . It is called “billet”; it is a metal used for constructing buildings.

Here is a detailed explanation of the manufacturing process:-

First the scrap iron is coolectted from local resources and from outside the country like dubai in the u.a.e.. The iron scrap is delivered to the plant to process it and to make the main product. In the plant the iron scrap is deployed in the scrap yard. Next the scrap is carried up/left up by an electromagnet (magnet that uses eletricity to function). It is delivered to a thing that got a shape like of a ‘coffe cup’,big in size and it is called ‘bucket’ or ‘ladle’ and put into it. Than the iron scrap is transferred to the Arc furnace and thrown/poured into it. The Arc furnace got a temperature of about 1600c° centigrade. The scrap is melted in the furnace because the charge is heated by electric arcs from three carbon electrodes which are lowred throught the roof of the furnace. The lower ends of the electrodes do not touch the steel but the electric currnet jumps across to the steel in continues sparks, or arcs, whose intense heat rapidly melts the scrap. As soon the iron scrap is melted,the additives are added. After that it is being transferrd to the quality control unite by special pipes so that the iron is refined[Tempered]. Finally the iron is extracted in a form of a final product which is called “billet” used to constract buildings,it is being cooled down with water and air ,when done it is placed in stacks to make it ready for cargo /shipping.


Metallurgical quality control used to control the manufacturing process of the product and to keep it at standard quality, so to control the heat of the furnace by reducing high improper heat via the usage of CO2 .



The management is to control the business of the company; therefore the raw materials should be cheap or on a reasonable price to get it. the company gets its scrap iron from many local resources, but mainly it is imported from “Dubai” in the U.A.E. Other additives like co2 gas is provided from “M.H.D” company, other additives are imported
From china and many other countries



HSE policies

In this factory we have observed some advantages and disadvantages in health safety environment (HSE).

HSE Advantages founds:

The factory use electricity for its process.
the spatial glass used to protect the employees in side the control room and power room.

Disadvantages:
The employees were careless about personal protection equipment + (ppe) such as masks over all safety boots and gloves. The factory produces
pollution (smoke, noise).
No assembly point, no emergency care plans or prcotion

Resourse and refrence:
Children’s Britannica Volume 10

This is a group work report by:

1- Mundhir Al shaibani
2- Hamed Al Barwani
3- Abdulah Al Shidhani
4- Kalphan Al Mubsali
5- Abdin Mohamed

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