New Delhi: Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has operationalised the nation’s largest blast furnace at its Rourkela Steel Plant.
It will increase SAIL’s hot metal capacity by 2.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 4.5 mtpa, the company said in a statement.
Named ‘Durga’, the furnace is built at an approximate expenditure of Rs 1,600 crore. It has a useful volume of 4060 cubic metres.
SAIL chief C.S. Verma also inaugurated a new slab caster at Steel Melting Shop-II of the plant. The environment-friendly furnace ensures minimum emissions and recovers waste energy to the fullest. It also has a closed-loop cooling system resulting in almost zero water discharge.
The new slab caster, set up at an approximate expenditure of Rs 500 crore, incorporates the latest technologies and can cast slabs of width up to 2,500 mm with thickness of 220 mm, 250 mm and 300 mm. It will supply slabs to the new 4.3 metre wide plate mill being installed as a part of the Rourkela plant’s modernisation and expansion plan.
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