October 16, 2008

TATA Steel bags DSIR Award 2007

TATA Steel has won the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research Award 2007 for its R&D effort in implementing an indigenous technology for removing hexavalent chromium from chrome ore concentrates.

Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee chief of R&D and scientific services at TATA Steel received the award. He said that “With innovative research and tenacious implementation, the hexavalent chromium level has been brought down from 0.4 parts per million to 0.001 parts per million in our chromium ore concentrate. The cut off set by WHO is 0.05 parts per million. This is indeed a huge achievement for us and we are very proud to have received this prestigious award.”

Apart from environmental benefits, this technology will help save 250 liters of water per tonne of concentrate thus saving about 125 million liters of water per annum at TATA Steel’s mines.