Power station engineering / Steel industry

Around 15% of the power station output currently installed in e.g. Germany is required for the fan drives used in the power station technology. Therefore, from an economic and ecological point of view, an optimum controls concept for primary and secondary air fans, flue gas recirculation fans, pressure increasing and induced draught fans is just as important, as the use of high performance fans with a high degree of efficiency.

This is where the advantages of Piller’s industrial fans come to full effect. Piller provides advice for the control concepts and supplies the optimum highly efficient system solution from a single source. This applies for power station technology, waste and biomass combined heating and power stations in the same way as for the steel industry.

In 1998, the steel industry in Germany had reduced its specific CO2 emissions by over 14% compared to the year 1990. Since the steel industry issued an extended statement in November 2000, undertaking to reduce the specific CO2 emissions by 22% by the year 2012, in the form of a self-obligation, attention is paid to the consequent implementation of process technology and metallurgy improvements, above all on energy efficiency. Thus, on the one hand the creation of additional possible uses for blast furnace gas and converter gas avoid the significant CO2 emissions released each year, on the other hand, the use of highly efficient plant components, like for example, the Piller fans, minimises the energy requirements.

» Centrifugal fans for power stations and large volumetric flows

For years we have been increasingly supplying power supply companies with fans, which are specially intended for use in flue gas dust collection plant (REA). High-performance centrifugal fans for volumetric flows up to 1,100,000 m³/h, including the drive and noise control installations are exclusively assembled in the Moringen works.