December 04, 2008

TATA Steel orders BF for Kalinga Nagar project

It is reported that TATA Steel Limited has placed a blast furnace order with Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Service’s division Metals Technologies for the supply of engineering and key equipment for a new blast furnace for its Greenfield integrated iron and steel works at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa. The value of the contract has not been disclosed.

Siemens Metals Technologies will engineer and supply key technological equipment for the Blast Furnace No 1. The furnace will be designed with a hearth diameter of 13.8 meters, an inner volume of 4,300 meter cube, a furnace top pressure of 2.5 bar g, a nominal daily production capacity of 9,150 tonnes and a nominal annual capacity of 3.2 million tonnes.

The blast furnace will be characterized by a low fuel consumption rate of 500 to 535 kilogram per metric tonne of hot metal, depending on the pulverized coal injection rate and burden type, a high coal injection rate of 160 to 200 kilogram per metric tonne hot metal, advanced waste heat recovery and environmental systems, Level 1 automation systems in addition to Level 2 control and optimization systems. A flat cast house floor will be provided for improved access and blast furnace operations. Training, commissioning supervision and start-up assistance is also part of the Siemens scope of supply.