Bhilai furnace fastest in SAIL to scale 9 MT milestone

Team News Riveting

Raipur, February 14

SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant’s largest Blast Furnace – Blast Furnace 8 (BF 8), christened Mahamaya, has become the fastest in SAIL to have crossed the 9 million tonnes (MT) cumulative production on February 11, 2022.

Director In-charge, Bhilai Steel Plant, Anirban Dasgupta congratulated the members of Mahamaya Team and all supporting shops & departments for becoming the fastest among the other two blast furnaces in SAIL of similar capacity. BF 8’s journey from 8 MT to 9 MT has been completed in record time of 138 days.

The graph of daily production from Bhilai’s modern blast furnace Mahamaya with advanced automation & control systems has risen steadily since its blowing in on 2^nd Feb 2018. The 9 MT milestone has been crossed by BF 8 in 1471 days after blowing-in on 11^th Feb 22. BF 8 has become the fastest in SAIL to have achieved this milestone – 94 days before furnace of similar capacity in Rourkela Steel Plant and 291 days before furnace of similar capacity in IISCO Steel Plant.

It may be recalled that BF 8’s journey from 1 MT to 2 MT took 165 days. BF 8 took 161 days to touch 2 MT from the date it crossed 1 MT. BF 8 completed journey from 2 MT to 3 MT in 161 days. It took BF 8 155 days to touch 4 MT from 3 MT. BF 8’s journey from 4 MT to 5 MT took 149 days. BF 8 took the same time period of 149 days from 5 MT to 6 MT. BF 8 completed journey from 6 MT to 7 MT took 141 days. The journey from 7 to 8 MT was completed in 154 days. BF 8’s journey from 8 MT to 9 MT has now been completed in record time of 138 days.

It may be recalled that BF 8 crossed cumulative production of 1 MT on 18 Oct 2018, i.e. 259 days after blowing-in of the furnace. The 2 MT milestone was crossed in 424 days after blowing-in on 1^st April 19. The 3 MT milestone was crossed on 9^th Sept 19. The 4 MT milestone was crossed on 11^th Feb 20. The 5 MT milestone was crossed on 9^th July 20. The 6 MT milestone was crossed on 6^th Dec 20. The 7 MT milestone was crossed on 26^th April 21. The 8 MT milestone was crossed on 26^th Sept 21.