Vacuum Treatment Plants VD / VOD

Vacuum degassing and VOD plants for clean steel: hydrogen and nitrogen removal, decarburization, deoxidation and desulphurization.

Clean steel

Vacuum degassing (VD)

The vacuum treatment is used for hydrogen and nitrogen removal, decarburization, deoxidation and desulphurization. Intensive gas stirring in fully inert conditions provides a good removal of non-metallic inclusions from molten steel.

STEB vacuum plants treat heats from 10 to 300 tons. The vacuum system is designed with dry mechanical multi-stage vacuum pumps arranged in several parallel skids / modules, normally rated 25.000 Nm³/h each.

STEB vacuum treatment plant
Stainless & ULC steels

VOD — Vacuum Oxygen Degassing

An oxygen lance installed in the vacuum station makes it possible to perform VOD (Vacuum Oxygen Degassing) treatments, principally used for stainless steels and ultra-low carbon steels.

  • Hydrogen and nitrogen removal
  • Decarburization under vacuum
  • Deoxidation and desulphurization
  • Removal of non-metallic inclusions
VD vacuum treatment vessel
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