Narendra Kothari, Chief Executive Officer of IISCO Steel Plant said the new coke oven battery Number 11, which began operation recently, would contribute significantly to the overall bottom line of the company.
It may be noted that the Burnpur-based IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), which is part of SAIL, begun trial productions at some of its new units – coke oven battery Number 11, a by-product unit, a sinter plant and a sinter disposal facility.
With this, parts of the 2.5-million-tonne-a-year project are now becoming operational in stages after being delayed for around two years now.
Reports indicate that some of the main packages at Burnpur are almost ready to be commissioned and the remaining are in advanced stages of completion.
The 0.882 million tonne 7-metre-tall battery with 74 ovens and a cooling plant was installed by a consortium led by Giprokoks of Ukraine.
McNally Bharat Engineering Co along with DMT of Germany erected a matching by-product plant. The units, it says, comply with the Central Pollution Control BoardÂ’s norms.
The coke dry cooling plant, a first at SAIL, eliminates quenching emission with heat recovery to generate power. Instead of conventional water quenching, the facility uses inert gase to cool the red hot coke.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.