One of the three Hot Blast Stoves of its modern Blast Furnace was light up at Burnpur, Executive Director-in-Charge I C Sahu inaugurated the lighting up programme.
Once heated, the Stove will supply hot air to the largest Blast Furnace at Burnpur to enable it to achieve “Blowing-in”, a pre-requisite to begin production of hot metal. With a useful volume of 4,161 cubic meters, this state-of-the-art Blast Furnace will be largest in country once commissioned, ISP official informed.
“With this milestone, ISP has entered into the most important phase of overall integration and commissioning of the 2.5 MTPA(Million Tonnes Per Annum) modernization and expansion programme,” said Sri Sahu at the time of lighting up in presence of Sudhir Kumar, ED(F&A), RN Das, ED i/c(Project), Dr N Mohapatra, ED (P&A), H Bhattacharya, ED(MM); AK Rath, ED(Project), Jin-Sik Choi, Sr Vice President, POSCO E&C, GVK Raju, Sr. General Manager, NCC ltd, other senior officials, large number of employees and representatives of employees’ unions.
Heating of the other two Stoves will begin soon in a phased manner and within fifty days all the three Stoves will be ready to supply hot air to the Blast Furnace. The stoves are being heated up using gas from the Coke Oven Battery. This has paved the way for production from the Blast Furnace which is scheduled to begin soon.