A newly commissioned ‘By product plant’ (BPP) built by McNally Bharat Engg Co ltd, India along with DMT (Germany as technology provider) was inaugurated at IISCO Steel Plant.
IISCO CEO Narendra Kothari inaugurated the plant on Tuesday where ED (Works) I C Sahu, ED (projects), RN Das and other senior officials were present on this event.
The plant comes with some unique features like gas condensation and tar separation unit, gravel filter unit, ammonium sulphate plant, hydrogen sulphide removal and sulphur recovery plant, naphthalene recovery plant, service facilities and effluent handling. It is based on state-of-the-art DCS based level 1 automation system, officials informed.
The BPP is a part of the 7 metres tall Coke Oven Battery with 74 ovens installed by a consortium of BEC, CUI led by Giprokoks of Ukraine. Some of the cutting edge developments in the byproducts processing have been adapted in this new BPP plant complying fully with the latest environmental norms.
“After successfully passing all commissioning trials, approximately 12840T of Coal Tar, 245T of Ammonium Sulphate and 11 T of Sulphur produced from the plant have already been dispatched to consumers”, official added.