NMDC ltd will soon start work for distribution of piping and setting up a gas mixing station at its upcoming 3 MTPA integrated steel plant at Nagarnar near Jagdalpur in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
Notably, the company had already commissioned the 220KV GIS (Gas Insulated Switch) Main Receiving Sub-station recently followed by Power supply to the Sinter Plant.
Subsequently, as per schedule, power will be stepped down to 33KV and conducted to the 11 sub-stations that will distribute power to different units of the steel plant by the Plant Power Distribution System (PPDS) through overhead cable gallery system.
BHEl-Industrial Systems Group, Bangalore has engineered, supplied, erected and is commissioning the 11 sub-stations for NISP’s PPDS Package at a cost of Rs 359 crores.
The Power sub-station packages that will be activated subsequently are the Raw Material Handling Plant, Coke Oven, Blast Furnace, Steel Melting Shop, Hot Strip Mill, lime & Dolomite Calcination Plant and Railway Yard, officials informed.
NMDC’s Rs 15525 crore 3 MTPA capacity steel plant project in Bastar is slated to be commissioned in September 2018. Of the steel Plant’s total power requirement of 296 MW, the company proposes to take 241 MW from the grid through Chattisgarh State Power Transmission Corporation limited (CSPTCl) while the balance will be generated in-house.