A team of students from the Harvard University on Sunday visited the Jindal Steel & Power ltd’s (JSPl) steelmaking facilities at Angul where the technology used in the unit helps save precious foreign currency besides containing pollution. “Coal gasification technology has immense potential for countries like India, where non-coking coal is abundantly available. We, at Angul, have used this technology for the first time in the world in a steel plant,” said JSPl Chairman Naveen Jindal, who accompanied the students. The Harvard University has included this steelmaking process in the Asia leadership Trek 2015, he said. The objective of the visit to JSPl was to document a Harvard Business School Case Study.
The JSPl has pioneered the CGP & DRI route to make steel. This technology can use locally available high-ash coal to make steel, unlike the blast furnace route that uses imported coking coal, a company spokesman said. Asia leadership Trek has taken place five times so far. This year the Trek travelled to five countries, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, India and Nepal.