WISCO’s stockyard to be rebuilt online

WISCO is to rebuild its steel stockyard to a more environment-friendly design.

The online rebuild of the C3 yard, carried out by CISDI, will face numerous complications. Production cannot be interrupted, the schedule will be tight and safety and production quality have to be maintained.

CISDI’s previous experience of similar tasks for other major steel producers will be brought into play.

The company’s teams carried online rebuilds of Baosteel Shanghai’s three model C yards and one for Baosteel Zhanjiang.

CISDI has constantly upgraded its intelligent unmanned stockyard expertise since it was first used at Zhanjiang and a number of innovative solutions have been found for WISCO.

Storage capacity will be increased, excess material recovery will be improved on, retaining walls will be added and maintenance trams will have better access to equipment.

CISDI will apply automatic scrapers, a clean transfer funnel and chute, and material buffer guide and seal devices. These technological developments are unique to CISDI and are based on DEM (definite element model), CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and DPM (discrete phase model) analysis means.

Before receiving the WISCO order, CISDI studied the raw materials to be stored in the yard and the existing logistics systems, and made multiple verifications on WISCO’s capacity for handling bulk materials and its downstream product mix and sizes.

CISDI helped WISCO to work out an optimal and flexible plan for the entire stockyard plant, which can be developed not only step-by-step but also in a manner which accommodates output adjustments.

The improvements will be supplied as a packaged product.

Green Stockyard Expertise

CISDI provides intelligent, green and efficient stockyard total solutions to its clients around the world.

Its expertise has been applied at over 100 stockyards both in China and abroad. More than 40 are environmental-protection stockyards, accounting for 70 per cent of the global market share. 

Its transformational stockyard projects at Baowu Zhanjiang, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel and Ruifeng Steel are stand-out examples of green storage, unmanned operation, intelligent management, energy and resource-saving and clean production.

CISDI’s intelligent and green stockyard is a dually-patented product in China and Japan.