CS Verma, Chairman of the state-run SAIL recently inaugurated a coke oven battery at the Rourkela Steel Plant, which is being modernised at an investment of Rs 12,000 crore.
The battery is top charged having compound twin flue, under jet, regenerative heating with partial recirculation of waste gases. SAIL invested around Rs 1,400 crore on the entire coke oven battery complex.
The complex comprised a modern environment friendly new coke oven battery, coke dry cooling plant, coal handling plant and coal chemicals unit.
The entire project would more than double the capacity of RSP from the current 2 million tonne to 4.5 mn t of hot metal and commensurate increase in crude steel and saleable steel capacity.
RSP has completed majority of work on the modernisation project. Earlier, two key units – the new sinter plant and the raw material circuit of the ore bedding and blending plant Phase-II had already been made operational and were in the process of stabilisation.
The company is conducting test and trial runs of new units like blast furnace-5, new slab caster in SMS-II and power blowing station and the units may be put into operation soon, reports suggest.
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