Yet another milestone was crossed in the fast upcoming Blast Furnace 8 of SAIl’s flagship unit, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), with the laying of the first carbon block in the hearth area of the furnace on Saturday, a statement of the plant informed.
“The work of erection of carbon block was inaugurated by Y.K. Degan, Executive Director(Works), Bhilai Steel Plant in the presence of senior executives of various departments of B.S.P including Blast Furnace, Refractory and CET, MECON etc,’’ the statement added.
Being installed as part of BSP’s 7 Million Tonne modernisation and expansion programme, blast furnace 8 will be having various new generation technological features like cast house, top recovery turbine (TRT), coal dust injection (CDI), modern Heat transmission System through carbon block, ceramic cup and SGI & Cu-staves and other state of the art energy-efficient and pollution control equipment including Waste Heat Recovery system.
The new blast furnace with such modern design will have a useful volume of 4060 m3 and capacity of producing 8030 tonnes of hot metal per day and 2.8 million tonnes per annum. The furnace is being installed by the Blast Furnace Zone of Plant’s Project Deptt. through the consortium of M/s. Paul Wurth, Italia (PWIT), M/s. Paul Wurth, India (PWIN) & M/s l&T.