NMDC Ltd’s Nagarnar Plant is all set for inaugural heating up of its Coke Oven in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. The Coke Oven will be inaugurated on September 28.
Union Minister for Steel Chaudhary Birender Singh and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh will light up the Coke Oven on September 28, 2018, officials informed.
Notably, the charging of the Coal Handling System has already been done at the plant and gains significance because the 3 MTPA capacity Nagarnar Steel Plant is expected to handle close to 2.5 million tonnes of coking coal annually to feed its two Coke Ovens.
Coking coal is converted to coke for charging into blast furnace to reduce iron ore to molten steel.
NMDC has already placed order for procurement of the first consignment of coking coal, officials informed.
The Coal Transfer Car was inaugurated at the Coke Oven Complex of Nagarnar Steel in May this year.
With this inauguration, one set of complete equipment had been put in place for commissioning of the Coke Oven Project.
The Coke Transfer Car has been manufactured and supplied by Bhilai Engineering Corporation, Bhilai which has also been awarded the EPC (Engineering and Project Construction) contract for the complete Coke Oven package at a cost of Rs 1,978 crore.
NMDC had started the 220KV GIS (Gas Insulated Switch) Main Receiving Sub-station in February this year, followed by Power supply to the Sinter Plant.
Subsequently, as per schedule, power will be stepped down to 33KV and conducted to the 11 sub-stations that will distribute power to different units of the steel plant by the Plant Power Distribution System (PPDS) through overhead cable gallery system.
NMDC will put all its efforts to roll out the first HR coils from its upcoming 3 MTPA Nagarnar Steel Plant in Bastar by March 2019, officials informed.
The steel plant project is getting ready for its commissioning of various units progressively, for which operational power supply system is already energized during first week of March 2018, they informed.
In order to facilitate the commissioning activities of steel plant, procurement action for initial requirement of various raw materials, spares, consumables, etc., are also under process.
NMDC already is in the process of implementing an ambitious project of laying Slurry Pipeline from Bailadila to Jagdalpur and further upto Visakhapatnam, officials informed.
The capacity of the pipeline is 15 MTPA and this will be associated with facilities like Beneficiation Plant at Kirandul and Bacheli, Pellet Plant at Nagarnar and Vizag.
The Slurry Pipeline between Bacheli to Nagarnar is being executed by NMDC and from Nagarnar to Vizag is envisaged to be executed in SPV mode. The works for Bailadila to Jagdalpur segment (140 Km) has been taken up. This project is challenging in terms of obtaining various clearances and permissions from statutory bodies and complexity of the route, officials informed.
The company is executing the project in two phases. The first phase is being executed from Bacheli to Nagarnar in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh at an estimated outlay of Rs 4,000 crore; and the second phase will be executed from Nagarnar to Vizag in Andhra Pradesh at an outlay of Rs 6,000 crore, officials informed.
Notably, to transport pellet feed concentrate from Bailadila to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the company will have the pipeline laid along the highways with a provision of partial off-take to feed its proposed 3 MTPA Steel plant coming up at Nagarnar.
