<p>Patrika reported that the LPG-induced heating of coke ovens was started at NMDC’s Integrated Steel Plant Nagarnar Steel Plant on 17 January 2022. It will be followed by the commissioning of the first unit of the Coke Oven Plant after 75 days. The chimney needs to be sufficiently heated before battery heating, which is why the process of heating the battery chimney was started last month. It is only after 90 days of heating of the chimney and the battery that the coke oven begins to form. The combined annual capacity of the coke oven battery is 1.68 million tonnes per year, while steel plants annual coking coal requirement is about 2.2 million tonnes</p><p>NMDC management is claiming that the plant will start functioning in March but the current situation says that it is not possible to do so at the moment. The peak of the third wave is yet to come, so even then the work will be affected. Foreign experts are yet to come for the testing of many packages and their arrival is possible only after the third wave is over.</p><p>The plant site is around 16 km from Jagdalpur. Ministry of steel has engaged MECON under a contract dated 23 February 2011 for Engineering, Design and Consultancy services for upcoming Steel Plant Nagarnar. MECON is providing Procurement Services, Basic Engineering Services, Detailed Engineering Services, Designer’s Supervision Services, Inspection Services, Assistance in Commissioning Services and other General Services. The entire plant is being installed in less than 1,800 acres of land and has the following major facilities</p><p>Coke Oven & By Product Complex – 2 x 7 meter Tall Batteries</p><p>Sinter Plant- 460 square meters</p><p>Blast furnace complex - 4,506 cubic meters</p><p>Steel Melting Shop - 2 x175 tonne BOF Converters</p><p>Ladle furnace - 2 x 175 tonnes</p><p>RH-OB - 2 x 175 tonnes</p><p>Thin Slab caster - 2 Strand CC</p><p>HSM</p>
<p>Patrika reported that the LPG-induced heating of coke ovens was started at NMDC’s Integrated Steel Plant Nagarnar Steel Plant on 17 January 2022. It will be followed by the commissioning of the first unit of the Coke Oven Plant after 75 days. The chimney needs to be sufficiently heated before battery heating, which is why the process of heating the battery chimney was started last month. It is only after 90 days of heating of the chimney and the battery that the coke oven begins to form. The combined annual capacity of the coke oven battery is 1.68 million tonnes per year, while steel plants annual coking coal requirement is about 2.2 million tonnes</p><p>NMDC management is claiming that the plant will start functioning in March but the current situation says that it is not possible to do so at the moment. The peak of the third wave is yet to come, so even then the work will be affected. Foreign experts are yet to come for the testing of many packages and their arrival is possible only after the third wave is over.</p><p>The plant site is around 16 km from Jagdalpur. Ministry of steel has engaged MECON under a contract dated 23 February 2011 for Engineering, Design and Consultancy services for upcoming Steel Plant Nagarnar. MECON is providing Procurement Services, Basic Engineering Services, Detailed Engineering Services, Designer’s Supervision Services, Inspection Services, Assistance in Commissioning Services and other General Services. The entire plant is being installed in less than 1,800 acres of land and has the following major facilities</p><p>Coke Oven & By Product Complex – 2 x 7 meter Tall Batteries</p><p>Sinter Plant- 460 square meters</p><p>Blast furnace complex - 4,506 cubic meters</p><p>Steel Melting Shop - 2 x175 tonne BOF Converters</p><p>Ladle furnace - 2 x 175 tonnes</p><p>RH-OB - 2 x 175 tonnes</p><p>Thin Slab caster - 2 Strand CC</p><p>HSM</p>
