Stelco Lake Erie steel plant
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Stelco Lake Erie steel plant, also known as Lake Erie Works, US Steel Canada (predecessor), is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant operating in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada:
- Location: 2330 Regional Road #3, Nanticoke, Ontario, N0A 1L0, Canada
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 42.805448, -80.095313 (exact)
Background
The Stelco Lake Erie steel plant began operating in 1980. In 2007, US Steel Canada purchased Stelco, naming the Lake Erie plant to 'US Steel Canada'; ten years later in 2017, Bedrock Industries bought Stelco and reinstalled its original name. The plant was shut down briefly from 2009 to 2010. The plant is powered by the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations grid near Niagara Falls. In 2019, Stelco announced it would partner with DTE Energy to build a 65MW waste heat facility to use cleaner energy.[1]
Worker Safety
In 2023, two workers were severely burned and one died from steam released by the coke oven while they were repairing steel cladding on the quench tower.[2] The air horn in the alarm had been removed for inspection.[3]
Upgrades
Stelco Lake Erie has reported $600 million CAD in investments and upgrades since 2000.[4]
In March 2023, made an agreement to test Utility’s eXERO™ technology, converting off-gasses into hydrogen.[5]
Port
Stelco operates a 1.2 km dock on Lake Erie to receive St. Lawrence dimension ships.[6]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Workforce size |
|---|---|---|
| Operating[7] | 1980[7] | 1373[8] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stelco Holdings Inc [100.0%] | 5057858769 [100%] | E100000000134 [100%] | Stelco Inc[7] | 4295861119 | E100000004115 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| finished rolled[9][10] | hot rolled products, colled roll products, tubular products, coated products[9][10] | automotive; building and infrastructure; energy[9] | 2023[11] | BF, BOF[7] | coking plant (45 ovens, began in 1981); BF; 2 BOF (began in 1980)[12][13][13][13] |
Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 2500 TTPA[14][13][14][13] | 2500 TTPA[14][13][14][13] |
Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 2400 TTPA[15] | 2400 TTPA[15] |
Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Coke |
|---|
| 650 TTPA[15] |
Table 7: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BF Production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1407 TTPA[13] | 1407 TTPA |
| 2021 | 2170 TTPA[13] | 2170 TTPA |
| 2022 | 2000 TTPA[13] | 2000 TTPA |
Blast Furnace Details
Table 8: Blast Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Announced date | Construction date | Start date | Furnace manufacturer and model | Current size | Current capacity (ttpa) | Decarbonization technology | Most recent relining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operating[12][13][13][13] | unknown | unknown | 1980[16] | Stelco; Paul Wurth (parts); Saint-Gobain (parts); contributions from the USSR and the Netherlands Hoogoven[17][18][17] | 2418 m³[13] | 2400[15] | In March 2023, announced plans to test Utility’s eXERO™ technology, converting off-gasses into hydrogen. Unclear if the blast furnace specifically is being tested.[19] | 2020-10-15[20][21][22] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
To access additional data, including an interactive map of steel power plants, a downloadable dataset, and summary data, please visit the Global Steel Plant Tracker on the Global Energy Monitor website.
References
- ↑ "Stelco Announces Selection of Strategic Co-Generation Partner". Stelco. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "'Wall of people' say goodbye to Gabriel Cabral. Hamilton worker died after Stelco incident: family | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ↑ Tara Lindemann The Sachem. "Air horn removed for inspection after Stelco Lake Erie Works incident: report". Hamilton Spectator. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ↑ Our Facilities, Stelco, Retrieved on: Aug. 5, 2020
- ↑ ndotlic (2023-03-24). "Utility Partners with Stelco for the Decarbonization of Integrated Steelmaking - Industrial Decarbonization Without Electrolysis | Utility Global". Industrial Decarbonization Without Electrolysis | Utility Global. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ↑ We're Back, Stelco, Retrieved on: Aug. 5, 2020
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20220112121535/https://www.stelco.com/about-us/our-facilities. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211202162049/https://www.stelco.com/sites/default/files/2021-10/2020%20Toxics%20Reduction%20Annual%20Report%20%28Public%29.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 02 December 2021.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220108113339/https://www.stelco.com/our-products/industries. Archived from the original on 08 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220126182949/https://www.stelco.com/our-products/specifications. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230401032848/https://www.stelco.com/sites/default/files/2023-03/60714-Certificate-14FEB2023.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 01 April 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 12.0 12.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220124203847/https://www.stelco.com/news/were-back. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 "2020 AIST Coke Oven Roundup". Association for Iron & Steel Technology. January 2020.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211202155801/https://www.stelco.com/sites/default/files/2020-07/LEW%202019%20Toxics%20Reduction%20Annual%20Report%20%28Public%29.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 02 December 2021.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220120005735/https://www.aist.org/AIST/aist/AIST/Conferences_Exhibitions/galvatech/USSC_LEW_Plant_Brochure.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190409053704/http://www.company-histories.com:80/Stelco-Inc-Company-History.html. Archived from the original on 09 April 2019.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 17.0 17.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20170813103142/https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/18710/1/Loschiavo_Micheal_A_1984_Geo4C6.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2017.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20221128015619/https://www.ceramicsrefractories.saint-gobain.com/sites/hps-mac3-cma-pcr/files/assetbank_media/Iron---Steel-Blast-Furnace-brochure-2022-web-2274441.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230325051428/https://utilityglobal.com/utility-partners-with-stelco-for-the-decarbonization-of-integrated-steelmaking/. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240322051451/https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/stelco-provides-further-details-on-blast-furnace-upgrade-project-809288327.html. Archived from the original on 22 March 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.aist.org/news/steel-news/2020/october/12-16-october-2020/after-late-summer-outage-stelco-bf-resumes-hot-me.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.davisindex.com/stelco-to-restart-lake-erie-blast-furnace-in-q3/.
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