Chairman SAIl, CS Verma, witnessed the operationalisation of the new Coal Dust Injection (CDI) facility at the 4060 cum Blast Furnace and the 3rd Turbo blower in the Power Blowing Station (PBS) during his visit to the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP).
The CDI unit will reduce the cost of production in the largest Blast Furnace in the country at RSP by injecting non-coking coal for reducing coke rate.
These units are part of the massive Rs12,000 crore modernisation and expansion project which would more than double RSP’s capacity from 2.0 Mtpa of crude steel to 4.2 Mtpa. Major units like the 360 sqm Sinter Plant, 7m tall Coke Oven Battery with Coke Dry Quenching Facility, 4060 cum Blast Furnace and 2500 mm wide slab caster under this modernisation and expansion plan have already been operationalised.
The balance major facilities like the 3rd 150t BOF and the 1.0 Mtpa 4.3 m wide Plate Mill are going to commence production by May’14.
Congratulating the RSP collective for commencing operations in the new units Verma emphasised the need for quick ramping up of production to rated capacities for deriving the desired benefits of the massive investments.