Date | Aug 19, 2016:
Public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) will be setting up fire detection, alarm and fire fighting system for power plant distribution system of the upcoming three MTPA steel plant of NMDC Ltd at Nagarnar in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh., officials informed.
Notably, NMDC Ltd will also be generating about 70 MW of captive power using gases from steel making processes in the upcoming three MTPA Nagarnar steel plant in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.
The power would be generated from gases released from from blast furnace, coke oven and 'LD gases'. The total power requirement of the steel plant would be around 420 MW in which the mines, pellet plant and the slurry pumping system would require around 120 MW of power, officials stated.
The remaining 350 MW power would be conventional in nature which would be fulfilled by the captive power plant and the Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Ltd (CSPDCL). Notably, the electrification work for movement of trains have also begun at the Railway siding site coming up at NMDC Ltd’s proposed 3.0 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant (ISP) at Nagarnar in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
The company is expecting commercial production of its three MTPA capacity proposed steel plant in Chhattisgarh to commence by the middle of 2017. The plant is expected to be ready by December 2016 and trial of same will start by December 2016. The Union Steel & Mines Ministry has plans of doubling installed capacity of NMDC Ltd’s proposed three MTPA integrated steel plant coming up at Nagarnar in Bastar district in Chhattisgarh in due course once the plant is commissioned.
In order to increase the domestic capacity of steel production, a concept of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) has been introduced, officials stated. Two MoUs have already been signed by the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand for setting up Greenfield steel plants with initial capacity of 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) each, to be later enhanced to 6 MTPA. More than Rs70,000 crore will be invested for setting up of these steel plants. Notably, India was the only country among the major steel producing nations of the world which recorded a positive trend in steel production and consumption in 2015, officials stated.
(Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/)