REFINED STEELWORKS IN THE METALLURGICAL PLANT AT ZAPOROZHE

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• Document Release Date: February 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approwpi'R2*01-, 1CEN LL G N AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT Refined Steelworks in tie Metallurgical
Plant at Zaporozhe
PLACE
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DATE OF
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beside the chill casting department,
h;. The Bessemer shop is 'located between the bl
1. a. ,Test of the b- st furnace installation, the so-called
;130-ton shop" housing three open-hearth fu~rna cas, achof
which produced 30 totes of steel per casting, located
st fur
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a The, molten irorl ce s from the bl t Ir
to the mixing plant by- special bucket car
liquid pig iron is red into the Thomas
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and is once L;-ore cleOned by air blasts. further-
ahi, m nt to ..he open--hearth furnaces is done by other
bucket cars,
b. Special chro. ie nickel is produced in a special
work st.op soutrea^?t of the mtxin` p 1ant See _ nnex l.,
sketch 2,
The 30-tpn del)a.rtment i nort east of the blast
fur .ade irstallat,ion. it is 60x20
meters and has
two e.lec~ric open--ne firth furn, aes for chrome nickel
zto,el making. The so-4elled TETS" building, where
the air blast for the blast furnaces was heated,,
bordened on the 30-ton. department, The blast
/housed
three turbines, biiing
a, A so-called mixer was close to th3 blast furnace
installation. it sezvbd as a r eservo it for the
molten gig iron to b e poured into the o pen.he arth
furnaces,
b} About 200 to 300 nete s from the open-hearth de=
partrtent rand ,;parallel to it was a workshop generally
called "30-ton shhop" as it housed the open-hearth
furnaces, which had a capacity of 30 tons. Source
:LQarned from skilled Aiorkerls among the fellow P s
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that th lion. served. for the production of
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as For ig, the molten pig iron goes, at
a r--ate it , from the blast furnaces to
the ope -nacres by special bucket cars,
The res small foundry, there iron inp,ots
150 x 20. . Nine open}hearth furnaces are
complet is under c?nstructIon and the
excavation for the 11th and 12th furngees are ready..
b, A workshop, 120 x 60 meters, serves for making
chrome nickel steel, Two electric Siemens furnaces
are installed there and two more furnaces are to
be set ul . The steel is frefined there by chrome, and
nickel, and ingots ift the shape and the size of
breechioc_ks are produced there,
See Annex 1, sketch 3.,
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s., This report has special value as the la7out of
the southern and most essential section of the Zapo
roue mettllurgica1 plant is definitely clarified
by the da-ta.
b, The annexed three sketches, which cover~~, the same
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part of this plant, conform to each other except
for trifles. Sketches 2 and 3 especially bear great
:resemblaAce to each other and presumably show the
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correct picture o_t tht; layout of this main. part of
this p lane. T' e same layout is given in Sketch 11 which l,
however, is more sbhematic,.
c. It may be assures d that the most important refined
steel department-the so-called "30-ton shop" - which
is the crucial point of this report;, is north of the
blast furnace installation,. It is a building of a
presumable size of 120x60 meters and vary probably
houses tvk electric steel :furnaces, each of 30-ton capa-
city (only one source indicated three furnaces). The
capacity of 30 tons is remarkable but thought pos sable
d// TLi'8)repott furn.Xsli.ee ic va_lu-e e contribution to
ciarifyin the t.sux vey ont t e'impar anteaetor whiC
4'e the subject -of several previoix Lysub:nitte rep rt ,
7eVeral pictures, recently published in `3oviet
newspapers, are enclosed as Annexes 2 through 6.
Blast furnace No. 3 and the back wall of the " IT6"
thereto-power plant are shown in Annet 2.
The front side cf the "TE`L ' the rmo-power plant is shown
furndos No. 3 is shown at a S -oO, t
in Annex 3. Blast
distance in Annex 4. Blast furnace No. 4 is shown in
Annexe s 5 and
nnexes: 1. Refined Steel Works in the ?aparoZhe
Matallunical Plant.
2. through fi
Ie to 11ux,~~ea 1 Plant, in 'vapor ozhe
(5 photostats).
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Legend to Annex l :
Sketch 1:
1 Blast furnace iristallati.o? with four blast furnaces
2 Chill casting. depart ent
3 30.-ton shop with three olen-hearth furnaces 3 rceters
high
4 Boiler house with compressors and transformer station,
sand blast and h.aetine in_stallt tion
5 Bessemer shop
6 ?Frtartin department with nine smokestacks
7 7.7arehouses with loading platforms
8 Watchtowers
sketch
1 Coke-chemical plant installations
2 Four blast furnaces
3 Benno 1. station
If Cooling tower
5 Form r P 'ill camp
6 .mall foundry
7 Demolished shop, former forge
8 Forge
9 Sao-called "TETS" compressor installation for the blast
furn.ees, with four turbines
10 Chro_ nickel steel dc.. artmant, 1O x 60 meters, with two
openahearth fern;-tees, each of 30-ton capacity. The in-
stallation of two more furnaces is finned
11 Mixer shop, 60 x 30 x 35 neters, with one Thomas convorter,,
in which the sla is separated from the iron by, air blast
12 Open earth department with nine furnaces in operation,,
three under construction
1, Dressing plant for the open-hearth department
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Le ,en4 to Annex 1 c on t' d :
IT, 1 /orlcohop under bbnstrudtion, the molds and the
,steel ingot su ports will be cleaned there
1.5 S yard: fcr dismaftled German machines
1,6 Transformer station with two high tension pylons
Setcb 3:
1 Coke-chemical department
3
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your blast furnaces
Smeil foundry
Demlolished work shop
Workshop, 200 x 4..0 meters, equipped with steam-operated
harp. rs and hardening furnaces
6 Emer ncy power plant any compressor station serving
the blast furnaces, with four turbines installed,
so cal le d STS" department
7 Former FV"/ cam!)
8 Chrome nickel stool manufacturing shop With two electric
open-hearth furnaces installed, two more furnaces are
to be constructidi 120 x 60 meters,
Transformer station
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10 Dressing shop for the c;yen-hearth department, 200 x 10
meters
11. 0 en.-hearth de ;ertr~errt
12 projected rolling mill, where dis.antled German machines
were stored.
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.efined Steelworks in the Zaporozhe
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rout Vie cf' ic o?? o? r iant.
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B/cs st- Furndc'e No. 4
Mehl//urgiC&/ font ire Zc porozhe .
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