Pollution free pickling of stainless steels

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7215-GB-301

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1987

End date 30 June 1990

Funded under

• Programme (ECSC) "pilot and demonstration projects in the iron and steel industry", 1983-1987

Total cost € 1 396 000,00

EU contribution € 558 400,00

Coordinated by

UGINE
France

Objective

An existing pickling installation for cold rolled stainless steel sheets will be modified so as to avoid the use of nitric acid; this will be achieved by regulating the oxygen reduction potential and using non-polluting oxidising compounds (oxygenated water). The economy of the process in addition to its ecological advantages comes from the less expensive treatment of the baths, from the elimination of nitric acid and from the recuperation of nickel and chromium.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEELDEM 1C - Programme (ECSC) "pilot and demonstration projects in the iron and steel industry", 1983-1987

Topic(s)

• T3 - Rolling and product treatment

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

DEM - Demonstration contracts

Coordinator

UGINE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Usine de Gueugnon ; 71130 GUEUGNON ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 34, rue de la Croix de Fer ; 78105 PARIS LA DEFENSE
• Total cost: No data