Team News Riveting
Raipur, January 16
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), an arm of state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), beat several records on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti.
Surpassing a ten year old record of 18,182 Tonne (T) made on August 14, 2010, the Plant produced 18,208 Tonne of hot metal on January 14, 2021, thereby also recording the highest daily production by any steel plant in SAIL so far.
The graph of performance of SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant has been rising in the recent days of January 2021. Besides achieving record levels of hot metal production, several interventions have been taken to improve performance of Steel Melting Shop 3 (SMS 3), SMS 2 and several other associated shops. The Bar & Rod Mill has also registered record performance on 14th Jan 2021.
Director in-charge SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant Anirban Dasgupta expressed confidence that many more milestones would be crossed in the days to come. He also conveyed congratulatory messages from other functional Directors of SAIL and former CEOs of BSP. Team Bhilai must work to meet the rising expectations from the Plant, he stated.
Dasgupta visited Blast Furnaces Friday to personally congratulate the BF Team and also members of associated departments. He also congratulated the BF 8 team for maintaining a high rate of coal dust injection. Credit for enabling high CDI rate also goes to Coke Ovens and Sinter Plant collective for maintaining requisite coke and sinter quality parameters, he stated.
It is worth mentioning that for three days in a row, the Plant’s Blast Furnace 8, Mahamaya recorded the highest Coal Dust Injection (CDI) rate. After going beyond the 150 182 kg per tonne of hot metal mark on 10th Jan 21, Blast Furnace 8 recorded its highest CDI rate of 182 kg/THM on 13th Jan 2021, surpassing the previous best records of 180 kg/THM recorded on 12th Jan 21 and 178 kg/THM recorded on 11th Jan 2021. BF 8 has now recorded the highest CDI rate among similar capacity furnaces in SAIL at RSP and ISP.
The Plant’s Modex unit, Bar & Rod Mill has also set a new day record on 14th Jan 2021 by rolling 1110 billets to produce 2299 Tonnes as against the previous best of 1077 billets and 2231 T on 12th Sept 2020. A new shift record of 453 billets (938 T) was also established by C shift, surpassing the previous best of 450 billets (923 T) in B shift of 5th Jan 2021.
Steel Melting Shop 3 (SMS 3) that has been operating at its highest level in Jan 2021 with an average of 43 heats per day till 14th Jan 21, touched the 50 heats mark of daily production on 10th Jan and 14th Jan 2021, recording its highest production of 51 heats on 11th Jan 21. SMS 2 that supplies slabs and blooms to Plate Mill and Rail & Strl Mill, respectively too has been consistently producing more than 66 heats per day with the joining of Convertor A & Caster 6 repair.
