About 4.5 Million Tonnes (MT) of coking coal is unloaded per annum at the Wagon Tipplers of Coal Preparation Plant-2 of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), a company press release informed on Saturday.

The unloading of such huge quantity of coal in a limited time is facilitated by Wagon Tipplers, it informed.

The Wagon Tipplers are designed for unloading certain specific type of wagons only at the time of installation. The Tipplers were basically designed for unloading BoxN Wagons at the time of installation of tipplers.

The Boxes (wagons) are provided by Indian Railways. Over a period of time, the Boxes are replaced due to wear and tear by the Railways. During such time, other types of Box wagons are also used as replacement by Railways.

The first modification in all the tipplers took place in 2009 to accommodate unloading of other types of wagons like BoxNR, BoxNHS and BoxNHL.

Recently, BoxNS was introduced by the Railways, which were not suited for getting unloaded in the tipplers at Coal Preparation Plant, because the height of these wagons was much more than what the tipplers could accommodate.

The collective of CO&CCD along with Engineering Design and Drawing Section planned the required modification in Wagon Tippler-1.

Accordingly, the Mechanical Maintenance collective guided by I Rajan, DGM I/c (M&S), led by A.S. Bisht, AGM and his team lifted the top beam by 100 mm.

The Tippler was made suitable for unloading BoxNS wagons and on 22nd Dec 2018, the wagons were successfully tested in the tippler and the tippling of the first rake of BoxNS wagons was executed.

G.S. Venkata Subramanian, GM (CO&CCD) and G. Achuta Rao, DGM I/c (CRG) who had monitored the progress of modification job congratulated the coal collective and commended the role of  Jhagar Singh, DGM (Coal),  M.K. Solanki, DGM (CPP-2) and K. Nand Kumar, DGM (E/M) for facilitating and providing peripheral support for successful completion of the modification.