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Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Visakhapatnam steel plant) is adopting pulverised coal injection technology in the blast furnace-3 for the first time to cut costs, according to Chairman and Managing Director P. Madhusudan.
He was speaking here on Thursday morning after inaugurating the two-day Citech 2014 - a workshop on pulverised coal injection technology.
He underscored the need to bring down the cost of production in the present competitive world. He said the introduction of PCI enables the steel makers to cut down the usage of metallurgical coal in hot metal making and help in enhancing BF productivity, reduce CO2 emissions and fuel rate.
Madhusudan said PCI technology is "very relevant in the Indian steel industry because hot metal production cost is around 80 per cent in an integrated steel plant and there is a need to focus on cost competitiveness''.
He expressed confidence that the workshop would provide an ideal platform to gain knowledge in BF technology.
SK Roy, adviser to Tata Steel and an expert in PCI technology, said the introduction of PCI was a challenging assignment and exhorted the participants to learn, modify and adopt the technology in a disciplined manner.
Amitav Sarcar, Vice-President (Operations), Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, said that utmost importance should be given to technical discipline, operational efficiency in implementing PCI in blast furnace and added that stringent technical norms should be followed.
PC Mohapatra, Director (Projects), said that RINL is all set to commission PCI in its blast furnace-3 very soon and this workshop would really help the organisation in gaining knowledge on PCI.
Earlier, D.N Rao, ED (Works), gave the welcome address.
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