Odisha commissions largest coal gasification plant

A basic oxygen furnace as well as other facilities at the integrated steel plant of Jindal Steel and Power were inaugurated by Union Steel Minister, Chaudhary Birender Singh and Union Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The ministers also inaugurated a two million tonne per annum capacity DRI plant, a blast furnace and coal gasification plant for making steel based on indigenous coal. The JSPL head, Naveen Jindal said that the two MTPA DRI plant at the Angul unit is world’s largest syngas-based plant, and that for the first time, a company in India is using coal gasification method for steel making.