About 480 running meters of new Coke Oven gas line feeding to Foundry and Pattern Shop, Forge Shop, Machine Shop-I and SS Shop was safely commissioned at the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) recently.
Keeping in mind the quantum of job and safety requirements, gas line shutdown job was planned along with the capital repair of BF-7, a BSP press release informed.
The new gas line is laid on separate route and features like U-seal isolation facility is incorporated in it. With this old corroded coke oven gas line of Auxiliary shop is replaced successfully.
The construction of pipe trestles and erection of the pipe line, both were arduous tasks, fraught with risks, because of railway tracks and frequent movement of hot ingot from SMS-I.
In order to ensure 100 % safety during erection job, lots of precautions were taken such as cordoning off of area, construction of bridge, protection of live gas mains and extensive usage of PPE’s.
The entire job was monitored and executed by EMD (Gas Safety).
The various agencies involved in the safe and successful commissioning of the new gas line were EMD, Foundry Shop, Forge Shop, Machine Shop-I, SS Shop, SED, Fire Services & EDD. Very good support was extended by GM (M&U) and GM i/C (Services) to enable timely shutdown of gas line.