COP 2010 – COMPLETED ON TIME AND TO BUDGET

NWR successfully completed COP 2010 at the end of 2010. With a capital investment of EUR 63 million, this two-year project streamlined and modernised NWR’s coking operations.

During the year, the Jan Šverma Coking Plant was decommissioned, consolidating all NWR’s coking operations at a single site, Svoboda.

At Svoboda, the newly constructed battery no. 10 has 56 chambers and meets the highest environmental standards. The battery and the service machinery are fitted with state of the art equipment for capturing air pollutants created by coke production. The maximum production capacity of the battery is approximately 225kt of coke per year. Trial operations commenced in October 2010 and moved into full production at the beginning of 2011. The battery is fired by its own coke-oven gas, and is connected to the latest systems to improve the process of handling by-products of coke production such as tar, benzol and coke-oven gas. All waste materials produced during the construction of this battery were disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

Additionally, battery no. 8 has undergone a complete refurbishment, including the construction of new pushing and charging machines.

With more flexible facilities we are now in a better position to meet our customers’ specific coking demands. The Svoboda plant operates four coke-oven batteries with a total of 210 chambers, and capacity of approximately 16 tonnes of coke per chamber over a production cycle of around 32 to 34 hours. The total maximum production capability is 850kt of coke per year.

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