NORNICKEL || SULPHUR PROJECT. START
Sulfur project. Under this name, Norilsk Nickel implements a key part of its global environmental program, whose goal is to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at all production sites. By 2023, emissions in Taimyr, in the Norilsk industrial region, should be reduced by 75% compared to 2015. The reconfiguration of the company's industrial facilities affects both the enrichment of ores and metallurgy. What has been done? The enrichment technology at the Talnakh plant has been improved, and the reconstruction of the Norilsk concentrator is to be carried out. The goal is to reduce the sulfur content in the ore concentrate. After reconstruction with the introduction of BAT - the best available technologies - the beneficiation plant in Talnakh increased both the processing of copper-nickel ores (from 7.5 million to 16.5 million tons per year), and the extraction of metals (Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd) into ore concentrate, and the output of sulfur (S) in the tailings, which are sent to the tab in the new tailings. In 2016, the Nickel Plant, the oldest metallurgical plant in Norilsk, was closed. Emissions from this plant alone were comparable to emissions from entire cities, such as Cherepovets or Lipetsk. The result was a reduction in emissions in the residential area of this arctic city by about 30%. The ore concentrate, which had previously been smelted at the Nickel Plant, was transferred for smelting to the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant (NMP). Here, at the NMP, the converter redistribution of the Copper Plant is also being transferred, and today it is the main generator of sulfur dioxide for the citizens. At the Copper Plant, the sulfur project is a reconstruction and expansion of the production of elemental sulfur from sulfur dioxide exhaust. But the main changes are connected with the NMP. A single center for smelting nickel raw materials has been launched here, a complex of continuous copper conversion will be built, new sites will be created for capturing sulfur dioxide with sulfuric acid production and neutralizing it with limestone. Norilsk Nickel's plans for the next five years are formulated as follows: remaining a world leader in the production of metals, becoming a company that sets the trend for environmental change and learns how to ensure a new quality of life for its employees and a clean environment. Clip created in collaboration with N3design.
Sulfur project. Under this name, Norilsk Nickel implements a key part of its global environmental program, whose goal is to significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at all production sites. By 2023, emissions in Taimyr, in the Norilsk industrial region, should be reduced by 75% compared to 2015. The reconfiguration of the company's industrial facilities affects both the enrichment of ores and metallurgy. What has been done? The enrichment technology at the Talnakh plant has been improved, and the reconstruction of the Norilsk concentrator is to be carried out. The goal is to reduce the sulfur content in the ore concentrate. After reconstruction with the introduction of BAT - the best available technologies - the beneficiation plant in Talnakh increased both the processing of copper-nickel ores (from 7.5 million to 16.5 million tons per year), and the extraction of metals (Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd) into ore concentrate, and the output of sulfur (S) in the tailings, which are sent to the tab in the new tailings. In 2016, the Nickel Plant, the oldest metallurgical plant in Norilsk, was closed. Emissions from this plant alone were comparable to emissions from entire cities, such as Cherepovets or Lipetsk. The result was a reduction in emissions in the residential area of this arctic city by about 30%. The ore concentrate, which had previously been smelted at the Nickel Plant, was transferred for smelting to the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant (NMP). Here, at the NMP, the converter redistribution of the Copper Plant is also being transferred, and today it is the main generator of sulfur dioxide for the citizens. At the Copper Plant, the sulfur project is a reconstruction and expansion of the production of elemental sulfur from sulfur dioxide exhaust. But the main changes are connected with the NMP. A single center for smelting nickel raw materials has been launched here, a complex of continuous copper conversion will be built, new sites will be created for capturing sulfur dioxide with sulfuric acid production and neutralizing it with limestone. Norilsk Nickel's plans for the next five years are formulated as follows: remaining a world leader in the production of metals, becoming a company that sets the trend for environmental change and learns how to ensure a new quality of life for its employees and a clean environment. Clip created in collaboration with N3design.