An economic evaluation of automation at the posco coke plant

Sangchul Won, Sangmoon Lee, Seung Gap Choi, Jong Hag Jeon

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Abstract

Posco has made tremendous efforts to improve poor working environments and to increase productivity in coke plants. By reducing the labour cost and process cycle times, we improve economic efficiency. In addition, a new coal preparation technique for the coke process improves energy efficiency and environmental impact. The results show that the automatic operation leads to increase the rate of operation and production cost. In this paper, the economic effect of coke plant automation is analysed on basis of manpower, productivity in coke plants, rate of the operation, energy consumption and environmental protection in Kwangyang works from 1990 to 2000.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
EditorsGabriel Ferrate, Eduardo F. Camacho, Luis Basanez, Juan. A. de la Puente
PublisherIFAC Secretariat
Pages67-70
Number of pages4
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9783902661746
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Event15th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2002 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 21 Jul 200226 Jul 2002

Publication series

NameIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Number1
Volume15
ISSN (Print)1474-6670

Conference

Conference15th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2002
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period21/07/0226/07/02

Keywords

  • Automation
  • Coke
  • Economical evaluation
  • Production cost
  • Productivity

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