Less Energy. More Power.
Responsible energy user that helps create a
lower carbon future
I was born in Hamilton but I lived in Welland when I was younger. We
used to cross the Skyway Bridge to visit relatives quite a bit. Every time
I would look over I’d see those flares at Dofasco and I’d wonder, what is
that? Why are they doing that, and why can’t we make use of that?
Energy awareness was taught to us even back in the 1980s, when I was
a kid. I thought it was silly that we could be so wasteful, that someone
has got to do something about that. To have been able to help address
that in my career has been very rewarding.
I do a lot of troubleshooting of equipment, make suggestions for
improvements and identify things that we can do to solve reliability
issues. My primary focus is on the improvement side and I’ve been
lucky to have been involved with teams that have installed two turbine
generators at ArcelorMittal Dofasco, and now we are installing a third.
Our current utilities and boiler power generation project is really about
two things. We are replacing some small, old boilers with a larger boiler
while at the same time installing a 20 Megawatt turbine generator
which will produce electricity very efficiently from the steam generated
by the new boiler. There are two large impacts that this project is going
to have on ArcelorMittal Dofasco. It will simplify our steam systems
which will improve the reliability of the system overall, which is crucial
for our iron and steel making process. It will also, by generating power,
improve our cost of operations by offsetting purchased power from
the grid.
It’s a big step toward becoming a sustainable business, and a more
competitive business; one where we have the minimum carbon
footprint possible. What I see is this company adopting processes
that are state of the art, use the minimum amount of power,
produce electricity where possible and have the smallest possible
carbon footprint.
I remember my first day vividly driving past the boiler house thinking,
Wow, it’s so complicated. How will I ever get a handle on this?
Now it’s like the back of my hand. It’s been very rewarding
to go from seeingthese flares as a child to helping to
deal with them as an adult.
Mechanical Engineer
Less Energy. More Power.
Responsible energy user that helps create a lower carbon future
I was born in Hamilton but I lived in Welland when I was younger. We used to cross the Skyway Bridge to visit relatives quite a bit. Every time I would look over I’d see those flares at Dofasco and I’d wonder, what is that? Why are they doing that, and why can’t we make use of that?
Energy awareness was taught to us even back in the 1980s, when I was
a kid. I thought it was silly that we could be so wasteful, that someone has got to do something about that. To have been able to help address that in my career has been very rewarding.
I do a lot of troubleshooting of equipment, make suggestions for improvements and identify things that we can do to solve reliability issues. My primary focus is on the improvement side and I’ve been lucky to have been involved with teams that have installed two turbine generators at ArcelorMittal Dofasco, and now we are installing a third.
Our current utilities and boiler power generation project is really about two things. We are replacing some small, old boilers with a larger boiler while at the same time installing a 20 Megawatt turbine generator which will produce electricity very efficiently from the steam generated by the new boiler. There are two large impacts that this project is going to have on ArcelorMittal Dofasco. It will simplify our steam systems which will improve the reliability of the system overall, which is crucial for our iron and steel making process. It will also, by generating power, improve our cost of operations by offsetting purchased power from the grid.
It’s a big step toward becoming a sustainable business, and a more competitive business; one where we have the minimum carbon footprint possible. What I see is this company adopting processes that are state of the art, use the minimum amount of power, produce electricity where possible and have the smallest possible carbon footprint.
I remember my first day vividly driving past the boiler house thinking, Wow, it’s so complicated. How will I ever get a handle on this? Now it’s like the back of my hand. It’s been very rewarding to go from seeingthese flares as a child to helping to deal with them as an adult.
Grant Zavitz
Grant Zavitz
Mechanical Engineer
Let’s keep the conversation going
Let’s keep the conversation going