When I was staying in Italy to oversee the design and construction of Mobate Steel Complex equipment, I was at the request of ITALIMPIANTI (ITALIMPIANTI Iran Contractor for Mobile Steel) to visit the ElectroCABONIUM graffiti factory around Rome. The companies were SIGRI subgroups and were supposed to supply the electrodes required for Mob steel.
the door That visit was an opportunity, according to the ministry of mines and metals at the time To develop the country’s steel capacity by the arc furnace method and the need for electrodes Graffiti with the factory manager about the possibility of establishing a similar factory in Iran Let’s talk. It was there that the manager there answered in the negative and said it clearly It means the closure of the factory, with all its capacity and production purely for the Asian market It has been assigned and I will report back on the progress of the project as I write The importance of building a graphite electrode plant to meet future needs I emphasized.
When in year 2 Returning to Iran, I found fortunately the National Steel Company of Iran production plan The electrode has graffiti on it and one of the engineers as the conductor A plan has been put in place to carry out this task, but what happened after 5 years of not having an electrode plant yet?
Wrong address! Yes. Misleading and misleading project officials.
First Wrong Address: The technical know-how of producing graphite electrodes is complex and Iran is unable to achieve it.
Second Wrong Address: Raw materials for the production of needle-shaped graphite electrodes are produced in the US and Japan.
Third Wrong Address: Petroleum coke raw materials are not available in Iran.
Team Who was responsible for executing the graphite electrode design must inevitably have to take over Information to manufacturers, mainly subsidiaries of the SIGRI Group Were visiting and visiting those units. The same group that believed If Iran owns a factory, it must close the Rome factory. Obviously on These conditions are expected to receive technical assistance for the construction of the factory from the rival company There will be nowhere and the best way to deter Iran from implementing this plan The strategy was to provide the wrong addresses that were mentioned.
Over time on the one hand Italy’s electrode plant was shut down and Chinese manufacturing plants replaced It became, on the other hand, the country’s steel production capacity since the mid-1980s It accelerated and the country needed more and more graffiti electrodes Intermediates were used to sell electrodes to steel units, and this time intermediaries There were Chinese manufacturers and manufacturers giving the same wrong addresses and to some extent This fueled the issue when it came to the construction of the graphite electrode plant Ardakan asks what people are familiar with this product and its production process And those who are alien to the subject immediately ask for its feed Where? Where is the Needle Coke? Petroleum coke that we do not have…
It was in such an atmosphere that all the minds were directed to the oil coke that came from VB The refinery is taken with good quality and sufficient to produce needle coke And even if the Ardakan plant reaches the startup stage because of it Lack of raw materials will not produce and unfortunately none of them The scholars did not delve deeper and scientifically into understanding Coke Oil is not the only source of supply of needle coke.
On a visit to one of China’s most prestigious electrode factories, I found that all of its production was from a coal tar processor made at the same plant and produced the highest quality graphite electrode.
In the old coke making unit of Isfahan, annual amount is more than 1 Thousands of tons of tar were produced for many years as an environmental disturbance The pool was buried until the iron smelter with the participation of the Mostazafan Foundation, refinery Built Qatar and by processing this nuisance in this refinery, Expensive products like screw (bitumen) and naphthalene are produced.
Interesting It is important to know that for the production of needle coke from the Qatar, you must first have a screw and a round production He then turned the screw process into a needle coke. Now with coke making Esfahan Steel Company, Zarand Iranian Steel Co., Ltd It’s reached that Researchers and knowledge companies based on coal tar as raw materials The production of needle coke and graphite electrode concentrate is a very complex process Inshallah is the feed required for Ardakan graphite electrode plant from inside Supply and taboo of not acquiring technical knowledge of needle coke and graphite electrode production To be broken forever.
