The Sinter Machine-1 of the Sintering Plant-3 was re-started in the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) on Saturday after completion of the capital repairs.
The task involved revamping of sinter cooler and up-gradation of ICS automation system along with other major repair jobs like Ignition Furnace Changing, Pallet height increase by 50 mm etc which were taken up to improve the reliability and productivity of the machine, a BSP press release informed.
The function was graced by CEO, BSP, M Ravi , ED (P&A) MK Barman and ED(Works) TB Singh along the senior officers of BSP.
Ravi inaugurated the revamped sinter cooler after which he pressed the button to start the sinter machine. The dignitaries were shown a presentation on the upgradation of ICS automation system and other jobs carried out.
He praised the efforts of the SP-3 collective in carrying out the volumionous job of ICS upgradation and revamping of the sinter cooler. He expressed his confidence that this will help in supplying quality sinter to the Blast Furnaces.
The sinter cooler was revamped by M/S Primetals and the ICS up-gradation was done by M/S Rockwell Automation.
The complete repair job was done under the leadership of PK Dash, GM I/C (Iron) M B Ganesamoorthy, GM (Proj-Iron) and AK Dey, GM(Shops & Mech).
All the jobs were coordinated by the team led by S Bhattacharya, DGM I/c (SP-3), M P Tuwani, DGM(CRM) S Roychoudhuri, DGM (Oprn), SP-3, V K Goyal, DGM (Ele), SP-3, Rajendra Prasad, DGM(Mech) ,SP-3 alongwith VPadmanabhan, DGM(Orpn), Pranay Kumar, DGM(Mech), B C Roy, DGM(Ele).
From the projects side, the job was carried out under the supervision of V V Tiwari, DGM (Proj-SPs&OHP).