The Town Administration Department of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) will take up work for improvement of sewerage system in Civic Center area in Bhilai Township, officials informed.
Notably, BSP under its proposed Environment Management Programme under its ongoing modernisation and expansion exercise also has plans of recycling treated township sewerage for industrial use.
It will also carry out continuous monitoring of ‘Total Organic Compounds’ at the outlet of the effluent treatment plant, officials informed.
Notably, the expansion and modernisation of Bhilai Steel Plant is underway to take its steel manufacturing capacity from 4 MTPA to 7 MTPA.
Notably, BSP which had been taking several key steps during the past years to preserve the environment has already eliminated use of CFC-11 by replacing it by li-Br based Chiller unit, way before the target date of January 1, 2010.
Procurement of Carbon Tetra Chloride (CTC) has been stopped and use of Trichloroethylene has been started, officials stated.
Two projects under the aegis of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have been implemented in BSP for the elimination of use of CTC. Procurement of Halon based fire extinguishers have also been replaced by FM 200 based units.
All industrial package air conditioners using CFC-12 were also replaced in a phased manner by units using CFC free refrigerant. The plant has brought down the use of ozone depleting substances to 3.05 tonnes in 2014 from about 10 tonnes a decade ago.
The ozone depleting potential, a true measure of consumption of Ozone depleting substances, has also been reduced to 0.167 tonnes by BSP in 2014, which is amongst lowest in industries.
Under the ongoing Expansion/Modernization projects, BSP has taken due care to fully comply with the Montreal protocol in procurement and installation of, Air conditioning/ refrigeration units. It is also ensured that, the fire protective equipment being procured is also fully complying with the Montreal protocol.
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 modernisation 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.