Jindal Steel & Power Ltd today commissioned the steel melting shop and its allied unit of the 6 MTPA integrated steel plant at Angul in Odisha.
“Commissioning of the steel melting shop is an important milestone in our project. With this landmark achievement, we are achieving 2.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) steel production capacity in the first phase,” said Dinesh Kumar Saraogi, Executive Director (Projects), JSPL’s Angul Unit.
“The electric arc furnace of the steel melting shop is of 250 tonnes capacity and is the largest in size in India and second in Asia,” Saraogi said in a statement.
Last year, the company had commissioned India’s widest 5.0 meter wide plate mill under the steel project.
The steel melting shop has a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per annum and has highest flexibility for raw materials, as it can use both solid hot feed, solid cold feed and hot metal feed, a senior JSPL official said.
The Hot DRI produced from DRI plant will be directly fed into the electric arc furnace at 550 degree centigrade and it can maximise the use of Hot DRI to reduce power consumption.
It is equipped with latest feature likes break-out prediction system, electromagnetic mould level control, and stopper control through electro servo actuator. The technology for has been proved by SMS — Siemag.
With the commissioning of the steel melting shop, JSPL is completing the 2.5 MTPA capacity out of the 6 MTPA capacity in the first phase of its greenfield project at Angul.
“Our Angul plant is of 2.5 million tonnes capacity now. We shall commission our balance 3.5 million tonnes by the end of 2015. We will fulfill our commitment given to Odisha,” said V.R. Sharma, Deputy Managing Director and CEO (Steel), JSPL.
The company has deployed sophisticated infrastructure and equipment capable of producing the superior grade steel in the world. Construction of five out of six units of the captive power plant of 810-MW capacity in the project has also been completed.