There are various types of plant concepts for the secondary metallurgical refining of liquid steel available from SMS group. These state-of-the-art production tools enable you to meet today's and tomorrow's demands for final product quality. Following your specific requirements, we design tailor-made solutions that accomplish your metallurgical, logistics, and productivity operations.
Our promise to meet your individual requirements through innovative solutions, process know-how and the selection of the best possible production route is represented by X-eed®. This brand name stands for our continuous efforts to improve technologies for the benefit of our customers.
Atmospheric and vacuum process technologies
Technology
SMS group's program covers the complete range of technologies and services for advanced steel quality. This package of metallurgical solutions is an important factor in helping to continuously deliver products with superior benefits for the final customer. These true assets give you maximum capacity and flexibility in constantly supporting leading industries with the most appropriate advanced steel quality. And the demand for quality steels in future-oriented markets is growing.
We coordinate each component of your metallurgical plant individually with you and adapt it accordingly. Our total commitment to technology and services contributes to your competitiveness.
Condition Monitoring System
Optimized vacuum system monitoringOur Condition Monitoring System (CMS) is also available for vacuum pumps. This allows you to keep an overview at all times: The system monitors the main functions so that you can detect faults and take appropriate action.
Operating and maintenance personnel gain an easier overview
- The display of pressures and temperatures, for example, makes it easier to understand the relationships between thermodynamic processes
- This also applies to the interaction of individual factors
Better preventive maintenance
- Predictive failure warnings give you the opportunity to take counter measures as soon as values deviate too much from the norm
- You take the right counter measures based on correctly identified causes
Efficient operation
- You recognize potentials for saving operating media




Splash control
Less skulls and low refractory wearIt's important to inhibit steel splashing inside the vacuum vessel to avoid skull buildup. RH-SC® does this during rapid decarburization treatment using advanced vacuum pressure and precise lift gas flow control.
Fewer splashes reduce skull formation inside the vacuum vessel. As a result, less effort is necessary for skull cutting with hydrocarbon fuels or oxygen applied through burner lances. This not only directly saves resources but also reduces skull handling, recycling, and disposal.
Skull cutting tends to damage the vessel lining, so reducing it increases the refractory lifetime. It also decreases the volume of worn-out refractories that have to be dumped and recycled. Another advantage of less splashing is that not as much dust is generated to contaminate the condenser cooling water. That eases the load on the water treatment plant.
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Michael Luven
SMS group GmbH
Head of Technical Sales and Project Planning - Secondary & Tertiary Metallurgy, Metallurgical Plants and Environmental Technology
Eduard-Schloemann-Straße 4
40237 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone
: +49 211 881-8164

Rüdiger Eggert
SMS group GmbH
Senior Manager Technical Sales - Secondary & Tertiary Metallurgy, Metallurgical Plants and Environmental Technology
Eduard-Schloemann-Straße 4
40237 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone
: +49 211 881-8139