Non-polluting stainless steel descaling & pickling by use of high pressure water jets

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-102

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1998

End date 30 June 2001

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 627 500,00

EU contribution € 376 500,00

Coordinated by

UGINE GROUPE USINOR
France

Objective

Due to the creation of acid vapours, pickling is one of the most important source of pollution during the fabrication process of stainless steels from hot band to finished product. Up to now, research has been devoted to find less polluting pickling solutions. This research aims to study a new descaling process using high-pressure water jet with or without abrasive. In particular, great attention will be given to the new technology consisting in the use of very high-pressure flat-water jet. The advantages of high pressure water jet descaling are very numerous: suppression of pollution, improvement of security, improvement of working conditions and improvement of the surface quality and process stability of stainless steels.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• F3 - Special and alloy steels

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UGINE GROUPE USINOR

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Immeuble Pacific 13 Cours Valmy, la Défense 7 ; 92070 LA DEFENSE CEDEX ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

AQUARESE INDUSTRIES

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Technoparc Futura ; 62400 BETHUNE
• Total cost: No data

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via di Castel Romano 100 ; 00128 ROMA EUR
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE

Portugal

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Estrada Nacional 249 - Km 3 Cabanas - Leiao (TagusPark) ; 2781 OEIRAS CODEX
• Total cost: No data

SOCIETE D'ETUDES ET DE RECH. DE L'ECOLE NAT. SUP. D'ARTS & MET.

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 151 Bld de l'Hôpital ; 75013 PARIS
• Total cost: No data