Vallourec among the finalists of the Best of Year Award
A Sustainable project places Vallourec among the finalists of the Best of Year Award
12/11/2020
Vallourec is one of the three finalists for the PMI-MG Award for Best Project in 2020. The PMI (Project Management Institute) is an international non-profit association permanently dedicated to promoting the effective application of Project Management science and practices. The organization is present in several regions of Brazil and the world.
The PMI-MG annually promotes the Best of Year Award, aiming to choose the most outstanding project in the state of Minas Gerais. The award aims to enhance the companies and professionals who, through the project, performed a feat of expressive representativeness for their organization and to share this achievement with the local community through the recognition of the notorious competence in project management of the respective winners. The winner of the award will be awarded a “Project of Year of Minas Gerais” plaque.
The Vallourec project that is among the finalists is the PCI PELLET – Charcoal in Pelletizing Plant Burner, led by mechanical engineer Alexandre Souza. Its main objective was to achieve at least 66% renewable energy from charcoal in pelletizing processes, a process that agglutinates ore particles to facilitate later metallurgical operations. For this, a new installation was made adapted for the use of this fuel, which demonstrated excellent attractiveness in the feasibility studies. Another objective was the environmental benefit of reducing atmospheric emissions that attracted institutional support and financial support from the UN through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with a commitment to reduce the emission of seven thousand tons of CO2 in two years.
The work was challenging and had the cooperation of Vallourec’s Project Engineering team and the professionals responsible for the operation and maintenance of future assets. More than twenty people worked together, as One Team, leading to the success of the project, which broke several paradigms in all its phases. One of the biggest challenges, for example, was adapting equipment and the original project, created to consume mineral coal, to use charcoal as an alternative fuel, used in a pelletizing plant for the first time.
It was awarded internally as the best environmental project of the year (Vallourec Environmental Award 2019), competing with several other projects of the Group in South America, North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia units.
In this final stretch, the finalist projects of the Best of Year Award produced videos of presentations that will be evaluated by the PMI-MG committee and by the public. Participate and give your opinion! Watch the video below and make your assessment by clicking here.
The voting will be open until 11/18/2020 and the result will be released on 11/19/2020.
