The Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl) will have Disaster Management Plan prepared for 'Ispat Bhawan' of the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) , officials informed.
It may be recalled that SAIl will also get a comprehensive Safety Audit of Bhilai Steel Plant done soon as per IS 14489 – 1998 standards , officials informed.
SAIl has set a target of increasing hot metal manufacturing capacity of the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) from 15.41 million tonnes per annum to 23.5 million tonnes post the ongoing modernization and expansion project.
Notably, all pollution control systems in the project expansion underway at BSP is designed to achieve chimney emission within 50mg/Nm3 as per Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) directives, officials stated.
Dust suppression system is being installed in new units to control dust from coal and iron ore storage area, they stated.
Dust extraction system is being installed at coal crushing and screening area to control fugitive emission.
Notably, the expansion and modernisation of Bhilai Steel Plant is underway to also take steel manufacturing capacity from 4 MTPA to 7 MTPA.
The Energy Management Department of Bhilai Steel Plant has safely and successfully commissioned about 650 RM (running metre) of diametre 1400 mm main Coke oven gas line for Blast Furnace-8 recently.
For connecting new header with existing gas network, shutdown of URM coke oven gas line was taken for three shifts, a BSP press release informed.
After purging and ensuring normal sample the new gas line was safely connected and successfully commissioned. With the commissioning of new coke oven gas line, stoves of Blast Furnace-8 can now consume gas for heating purpose.
The gas line project was carried out under the leadership of Navin Kumar DGM I/c (EMD) and under the guidance of P.K. Singh, DGM (Gas Safety &Opr) EMD. Commercial production of world class 130 metre long rails from the new Universal Rail Mill of Bhilai Steel Plant began in November last year.
The 130-meter rail rolled at URM would be World’s longest rail in a single piece. The hot trials for rolling and straightening of rails were underway and after seeking all required clearances from third party inspection agency M/s RITES, commercial production from URM has begun.Despatch of the first rake from this new facility would take place in about two days, a BSP press release informed.
The entire team of M/S SMS MEER Germany, M/s ABB and M/S SMS MEER India and the Projects team of Bhilai Steel Plant along with SR Babu, DGM worked relentlessly to achieve this significant milestone.
M Ravi, Chief Executive Officer, Bhilai Steel Plant congratulated the entire team on the achievement of this major milestone.
The new URM established at a cost of about Rs. 1200 Cr. is part of SAIl-Bhilai Steel Plant’s modernization programme that would scale up capacity to 7 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).