The largest Blast Furnace of India (of 4060 m3 useful volume) — “Durga” and also SAIl’s widest slab caster was inaugurated on August 10 at SAIl — Rourkela Steel Plant by CS Verma, Chairman (SAIl), in the presence of AK Tyagi, CMD (MECON), Directors, CEO of SAIl and Senior officials of SAIl alongwith Senior officials of MECON.
The Blast Furnace was built at an approximate cost of Rs 1600 Crore, this state-of- the-art Blast Furnace will produce an average of 8,000 tonnes of hot metal per and is the most vital unit towards achieving the target 4.2 Mtpa crude steel production capacity at SAIl – RSP. The Blast Furnace has been designed with modern environment friendly technologies compatible for long campaign life of 20 years, fuel efficiency and low operating cost.
The Blast Furnace is equipped with automated stock house for screening & weigh batching of raw materials, conveyor charging system, parallel hopper bell – less top charging system, high top pressure operation, soft water closed loop cooling system, pulverised coal injection system, top gas pressure recovery turbine, waste heat recovery system for hot blast stoves, cast house fume extraction system, stock house dedusting system, cast house slag granulation system, flat and motorable twin cast houses, level – II automation & control system, etc.
Built at an approximate cost of about Rs 700 Crore including auxiliary packages, this state-of-the-art Slab Caster will cater to the special quality slab requirements for the up coming 4.3m wide plate mill at SAIl – RSP. It will also cater to quality slab requirement for high value API grade pipes and ultra low carbon steel grades for hot strip mill.
MECON has provided complete consultancy services for the project right from the pre-tendering stage and has been thoroughly associated at all stages of tendering, engineering, construction, trial & testing and commissioning.