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Durgapur steel plant is the third integrated Steel plant of the Steel Authority of
India Limited to come up under public sector in India. The plant was set up with an
initial capacity of 1 million tones per annum of crude steel by a group of British
companies in the late 50s. It was later expanded to 1.6 MTPA in late sixties. Later
on SAIL decided to modernize DSP with government approval in 1989 and the
present capacity is 2 MTPA of hot metal.
Durgapur was selected as location of an industrial steel plant, because of its
proximity of coal fields, the Grand Trunk Road, Calcutta- Delhi main railway track,
Calcutta port, power from Damodar Valley Corporation and water from Durgapur
Barrage on river Damodar.
The plant started iron production on 26th Dec, 1959. The Plant produces Wheels
& Axles mainly for Indian Railways. The other products are Light & Medium
Sections, Merchant Products, Skelps, Blooms and Billets. All the production
departments of the plant are covered by ISO 14001:2004 EMS and OHSAS 18001
certification.
Historical Background
It is said that Durgapur is the child of independence. An outcome of a strong
desire to become self sufficient in steel and strengthen the core sector of Indian
economy. Even in late 50s, the crude steel output in our country was as low as 1
million ton per annum.
In early 50s, India went for rapid industrialization under our visionary Prime
Minister Pandit Jawharlal Nehru. It was realized that steel was one of the most
important ingredients for rapid industrialization of India and a number of Steel Plants
came into being in the country. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the first Chief Minister and
the architect of modern Bengal dreamt of setting up an integrated steel plant at
Durgapur. The idea was subsequently firmed up as a follow up recommendations of
Colombo Plan Mission. The contract to construct a steel plant in Durgapur was
awarded to a consortium of thirteen British Companies Indian Steel Works
Construction Company Limited (ISCON) in October 1956. Sir Cyril E Jones was the
Chairman of ISCON and Mr. D J Bell was the Resident Director at site. Mr. K K Sen
was the first General Manager of Durgapur Steel Project.
A total of 6,568 hectares of land was acquired and the construction begun at the
site in January 1957. Durgapur Steel was braught under Hidustan Steel Limited on
April 1, 1957. The first Blast Furnace, Kasturba, was dedicated to the nation by Dr.
Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India on Dec. 29th, 1959. The Plant cast its
Steel Ingot on April 24, 1960. In 1965-66 the plant recorded its first Net Profit of
Rs.29 Lakhs. Later on capacity expansion of DSP to 1.6 million tonne per annum was
completed in the year 1968-69. Further modernization of DSP was taken up with
production capacity of 2.088 MT of hot metal, 1.802 MT of crude steel and 1.586 MT
of saleable steel. This process of Modernization of major units was commissioned by
April 1996.
Application
Finished products
TMT Bars & Rods
Medium Structural
(Angle, Channels and Joists)
Wheel & Axles
Skelp
Semis : Blooms, Billets & Slabs
Major Highlights:
2.2
Blast Furnace
Hot Metal (MT)
1.92
1.9
2.15
2.06
2.1
1.84
1.95
1.8
1.78
1.85
1.76
1.8
1.74
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
105% of rated capacity utilisation
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
106% of rated capacity utilisation
1.72
1.72
69000
1.7
1.71
68800
68500
68000
1.7
67500
1.69
66532
67000
1.67
65838
66500
66000
1.67
65500
1.66
65000
1.65
64500
1.64
64000
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
68,800 wheels supplied to Indian Railways
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
108% of rated capacity utilisation
Coke Ovens
(Pushing per day)
Labour Productivity
(t/man/year)
302.3
250
302
195.4
300
298
1.8
1.82
1.9
304
1.87
1.86
1.95
1.68
1.91
1.88
2.05
2
2.19
208
200
142.6
296.4
150
295
296
100
294
50
292
0
290
2005-06
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
302.3 pushing per day
2006-07
2007-08
Lime Stone,
Dolomite, Iron
Ore, Ferro Mn,
Ferro Si, Silico Mn
Coal
Raw Material
Handling Plant
Lime Stone
NLCP
Coal Handling
Plant
Sinter Mix
Iron
Ore
Lump
Coke
Oven
Sinter Plant
Coke
Slag
SGP
Granulated Slag
Hot Metal
Scrap
Coal
Clean Gas
Chemicals
Sinter
Blast Furnace
FeSi Lime
FeMn
Dolo
I/Ore
Lump
CO
Gas
Scrap
Yard
Return
&
Process
Scrap
PCM
Oxygen
Plant
O2, Ar, N2
Pig Iron
O2 & N2
for Sale
Liquid Steel
Continuous Casting
Billet
CCP Caster
CC Billet
for Sale
Wheel
Ingots Spl Casting Bay
8 T Ingots
Stripped
Wheel
Striper
Ingots
Bay
Stripped Ingots
Blooms for Sale
Wheel & Axle for
Railway Carriage
Blooming
W
&
A
Plant
Mill
Blooms
Bloom Caster
Rolled Billets
Merchant Mill
Plain Rounds &
Ribbed Rounds
(TMT Bars)
Teeming Stage
Section Mill
Wagon tipplers
Wing Tipplers
Old Reclaimers
Stacker cum
Reclaimer
Slew able
Stacker
Blender
Reclaimer
Nos
Functions
3 To unload the raw materials brought in rails of wagons
from various mines
3 To stack material on the beds
4 This Plough and Harrow type reclaimers are used for
reclaiming the materials
4 For stacking on beds as well as reclaiming from beds
(Two beds for Iron ore and three beds for flux)
1 For sinter-mix preparation (i.e.) stacking for blend
mix.
1 To reclaim the blend mix
Main source
Bolani
Bolani
Birimitrapur
Birimitrapur
Jaisalmer
Internal
Coal Handling
Plant
Batteries
Coal
Chemicals
B.F.Coke
(+20 80 mm)
Nut Coke
(+10 20 mm)
Coke Breeze
(0 10 mm)
Coke Handling
Plant
Benzene
Toluene
Light Solvent Naptha
Light Oil
Napthalene flake
Creosote Oil
Crude Tar
Ammonium Sulphate
CO gas
Coal Handling:
Aim of this unit is to supply coal of required quality and quantity to service bunkers for
BF coke making. Here washed coal and imported coal received in wagons are
unloaded by means of 3 nos. of Box Tipplers. The tippled coal is then stacked in 14
nos. of silos as per quality and grade. Coal of different quantity is drawn from Blending
silos and selectively crushed and blended in selective crushing unit. Thus blended
quality coal is sent to service bunkers at battery top for BF coke making.
2. Reclaiming Sections
Major Equipments
Box Tipplers
Wing Trippers
Stacking Beds
Conveyors
- 3 nos
- 6 nos (4 old + 2 new)
- 12 nos
- 10 kms long approx.
Major Equipments
Old Reclaimers
New Reclaimers
Blending Silos
Conveyors
- 4 nos
- 3 nos
- 14 nos
- 12 kms long approx.
Major Equipments
Primary Crusher
Secondary Crusher
Pneumatic Classifiers
Conveyors
- 4 nos
- 2 nos
- 4 nos
- 12 kms long approx.
Coal Handling sections also attached with Coal Washery where raw coal is washed to
reduced its ash content before using it blend preparation. The main units of Coal
Washery are Heavy Media Bath, BATAC jig, Spiral Washer, Thickener and Filter.
Presently Coal Washery is not working.
Coke Oven Battery:
There were 3 batteries of 78 ovens each and a half battery of 39 ovens. Capacity of
each oven is 20 tonnes approx. on dry basis. The standard coking time is 18 to 20
hours. The flue temperature is 1230 C. Resulting Coke of size 20 to 80 mm sent to
BF and undersize coke is sent to RMHP.
There are 4 special cars in this section:
(a) Charging car:
Takes coal from service bunkers to individual ovens
(b) Ram car:
Pushes the coke out of individual ovens
(c) Guide car:
Guides the coke during pushing operation
(d) Quenching car: Receives the hot coke for quenching
Coke Handling Plant:
At Coke Handling Plant the coke is screened for BF Coke, i.e. +20mm 80 mm
and sent to Blast Furnace.
Coal Chemical Plant:
This is a byproduct plant which recovers the chemicals from the gas and allows
clean gas to be used in coke ovens and other plant as fuel. There are 4 gas streams
with capacity of 3300 cubic meter/Hr each.
Coal Chemical Plant has four major sections:
(a) Benzol Plant produces Benzene, Toluene, Heavy and Light solvent Naptha.
(b) Tar distillation Plant produces Light Oil, Napthalene Oil, Heavy Creosote
Oil, Crude Tar Partially Distilled (CTPD).
(c) Mechanised Napthalene Crystallisation Plant (MNCP) produces Napthalene
flakes.
(d) Biochemical Oxygen Demand Plant (BOD) Liquor and waste water of the
plant is treated here with bacteria to destroy different poisons before it is
allowed to pass to the outfall.
Coal
Indigeneous
PCC
Imported
MCC
PCC (Hard)
MCC (Soft)
Patherdih
Kathara
Australia
Austrtalia
Sudamdih
Kedia
China
Indonasia
Bhojudih
Swang
USA
Jamodoba
Rajarappa
NZ
Munidih
Dugdha
SINTER PLANT
Raw Sinter is a hard porous lump produced by controlled heating of a mixure of
Iron ore fines, lime stone fines, dolomite fines, coke fines and other waste materials.
Usage of sinter in Blast Furnace offers many advantages, like, utilization of Iron ore
fines (which otherwise cannot be used directly in Blast Furnace as it will choke the
furnace due to its fineness), reduction in coke rate etc.
The process of sintering started in 1910 and flourished in different countries where
there was coke shortage. Advantages of using sinter are:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
To utilize all waste of fines nature like Mill scale, Ferro Scrap, LD slag etc.
To reduction in coke rate in Blast Furnace
To increase productivity of blast furnace
To provide smooth Gas Dynamics inside BF stack.
To utilize Iron Ore fines and Coke breeze.
Better Operation of Blast Furnaces as Sinter is engineered product.
Plant capacity:
3.009MT/annum
Machine capacity:
Nodulizing
Drum
Sintermix
Hopper
Drum Feeder
Return Fines
-6 mm
Screen
+6 to -16 mm
for
Blast Furnace
Sinter
Cooler
Sinter
Breaker
Sinter
Machine
+25 mm to
Blast Furnace
Major equipments:
Equipments
Nodulizing Drum
Sintermix Hopper
Sintering machine
Sinter Breaker
Sinter Cooler
Sinter Screen
Purpose
Moist charge is rolled to nodulise the fines and decrease the
size range of particles and consequently improve the
permeability of sinter bed.
To store the nodules before feeding to sintering machine.
Sinter mix is spread over hearth layer, which is a layer of
previously sintered material. Material is heated under a set of
burners and suction is applied from bottom. The heat travels
down the bed and by the time the material reaches the
discharge end, the whole mass is sintered.
Sinter is crushed here.
Sinter is cooled here from 800 900 C to less than 100 C.
Through screening, sinter is separated out depending on size.
Sinter plant is a Heavy Power consuming plant and it consumes about 1/4th of the
total power.
There are four electrostatic precipitators in Sinter Plant 2 and two electrostatic
precipitators in Sinter Plant 1 to control both fugitive and stack emission.
Now target Sinter in Blast Furnace burden is 70 - 75%.
Blast furnace
Hearth layer
Return fines re-circulated in sinter plant
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Blast Furnace
Blast furnace is the most important part of an Integrated Steel Plant. The objective of
Blast Furnace is to take the raw material from RMHP, coke and sinter plant and convert
it into pig iron or Hot Metal. Coke serves as the heat source and reducing agent while
Limestone and Dolomite are used as flux, which combines with gangue to produce slag.
A Blast Furnace is so called because it uses Air Blast as oxygen source for the
process.
There are four Blast Furnaces in DSP, named Kasturba, Kamala, Sarada, Durga
out of which three are running except Kasturba.
Material Flow Diagram:
Iron Ore
Lump
Sinter
Coke
Gas Cleaning Plant
Blast
Furnace
Hot Blast
Slag
Primary Dust
Catcher
BF Gas with dust
25 27 gm/NM3
Washer
Pig Iron
Clean gas
with dust
10mg/NM3
SMS
Secondary
Dust Catcher
Electrostatic
Precipitator
PCM
Process:
Raw materials like Iron ore, sinter, coke are charged into the furnace from top in
required proportions called burden. Air enriched with oxygen is preheated in stoves.
Preheated air is blown through Tuyeres in the bosh region. These are symmetrically
located openings. The raw material descending through various temperature zones are
heated up and get smelted. The reducing gases rise up through burden and go out
through ascension pipes. The hot metal and slag obtained by smelting of raw materials
trickles down and accumulate in the hearth which is the bottom most part of the
furnace. The slag being lighter than hot metal floats on it.
The hot metal and slag are tapped through tap holes drilled using drilling machines
and separated using skimmer plate in the trough. The hot metal thus obtained is sent to
SMS to make steel or to PCM to make pigs. The slag is either dumped in the slag yard
or granulated in slag granulation plant (SGP).
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BFs 3 and 4 have SGPs and hence the slag coming out of these BFs is granulated.
The gas ascending through the descending column is called BF gas and has high
calorific value of 850 Kcal/Nm3. It is used as fuel at many departments in the plant.
This gas has to be cleaned before being used as fuel. For this purpose, a gas cleaning
plant is located in the Blast Furnace area.
Gas Cleaning Plant:
The gas coming out of Blast Furnace has a calorific value of about 850 KCal/NM3
and contains about 25-27 gm/NM3 of dust. Unless it is cleaned, it can not be used as
fuel. The cleaning process is done in four stages. In the first stage, the gas is subjected
to a sudden expansion in primary dust catcher. Then, it is given a cyclonic motion in a
secondary dust catcher. The gas coming out at this stage has about 5-7 gm/NM3 dust. In
the third stage, the gas is counter currently washed with water in gas washers. The gas
coming out is then sent into a set of electrostatic precipitators, where it is cleaned to the
maximum extent. The gas leaving ESPs has a dust content of 9-11 mg/NM3. The dust
laden water coming out of the gas washer and Electrostatic precipitator is taken to Dor
Clarifier, cooled and recirculated. The slurry is taken to Slag bank.
Furnace Details
Capacity (TPD)
Useful volume (m3)
No. of stoves
Productivity
#1
Presently
not
working
#2
1820
1400
3
1.3
#3
1820
1400
3
1.3
#4
2340
1800
3
1.3
Design parameters:
Parameters
Blast Temperature
High top pressure
Sinter charge
Furnace Productivity
No. of cast/day
No. of tuyers
No. of tap holes
Blast period
BF #2 & 3
1100 c
0.7kg/cm2
75%
1.3
9-10
18
2
60 minutes
BF # 4
1150 c
0.7kg/cm2
75%
1.3
9-10
20
2
60 minutes
The slag contains CaO which is used for Cement manufacturing. This slag is sold
outside. Granulated slag fetches better price. There are two Slag Granulation Plant
(SGP) for BF #3 and BF #4.
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SMS Complex
SMS or Steel Melting Shop is the section where hot metal from blast furnace is
converted into steel.. This type of Basic Oxygen Furnace was first used successfully in
the places called Linz and Donawitz in Austria. The shop was added during
modernization of DSP and has a capacity of 1.876 million tones per annum.
SMS can be divided into 3 sections:
(a) Basic oxygen Furnace
(b) Continuous Casting Plant
(c) New Lime Calcination Plant
BOF has an online process automation system. The system uses VAX/VMS system
which works on the principle of virtual memory. The whole data acquisition system
contains various levels where the higher level caters to the need of quick retrieval of
data about operation parameters and other activities.
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Stripped
Ingots
from
Stripper Bay
Soaking
Pits
Mill Train
Stands
Reheated Ingots
Up & Down
Cut Shear
Flying
Shear
Cooling
Bed
2 X 42 High
Reversing Mill
700 T
Shear
Reheating
Furnace
Bloom
Stock Bay
Billet Mill
Despatch
Billets for
Skelp Mill &
Outside Sale
1200T
Shear
2 X 32 High
Reversing Mill
Cropped Ends
to SMS
Blooms for
Section Mill,
Axle plant &
Outside sale
Process:
Soaking pit furnaces are used for reheating the ingots at 1280C. There are 20
soaking pit furnaces with capacity 110T. Fuel used is CO gas + B.F gas in the ratio of
1:4. The reheating time is usually 1.5 times the track time. After soaking the ingots
are lifted by means of vertical ingot charger cranes for soaking. It is a two high
reversible type mill driven by two nos 3000 HP DC motor at the mills speed of
0/40/60 rpm. Here 1200T shear is used to cut fish tail, and then the blooms are put in
the bloom transfer bank.
There is a two high reversible mill driven by 4500HP DC motor. The rolls are
counter weight balanced and driven with a speed of 0/80/120 rpm.
Pit Time:
This is the amount of time the ingots have to be placed in the soaking pits. This is
equal to 1.5 times the track time, which is around 3 to 4.5 hrs for hot ingots and
around 12 hrs for cold ingots .
No. of passes in 42 mill:
13 , in case of normal steel and 19 , in case of special steel.
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Major Equipments:
v
v
v
v
v
Billet Mill
Blooms produced in Blooming Mill are further rolled into slabs and billets of
various sizes. The capacity of Billet Mill is 0.957 tonne per annum. The products of
this mill are 50 mm square to 125mm square Billets and 140 to 240mm x 75/80 mm
skelp slabs.
Major Equipments:
v Mill Train - Continuous morgan design with 8 strands
v Up and Down Cut Shear: - For emergency purpose
v Flying Shear - Shear a max. cross section of 130 square inch.
Reheating Furnace
Under the modernization scheme, the Blooming Mill including socking pits are
supposed to be phased out. At present a new reheating furnace had been installed and
running. Feed materials for reheating furnace are the blooms for Bloom Caster. Then
Blooms are heated up in the furnace and directly fed to the Billet Mills.
SECTION MILL
Blooms from blooming mill are taken and rolled in section mill to produce light
and medium structural like joists, channels and Angles. The capacity of Section Mill
is 0.212 million tone per annum.
Material Flow Diagram:
Bloom
Stock Bay
Furnace 1 or 2
Pusher &
Roller Table
26 2 High
Roughing Mill
2 X 24 3 High
Intermediate
Mill
Hot Banks
Straightening
Machine
Hot Bed
Hot Saws
16
24 2 High
Finishing Mill
Process:
Blooms coming from Bloom Stock Bay are first reheated in Reheating Furnace
upto a temperature of 1250 C. Then it goes to 26 2 High Roughing Mill strands
through the roller table. After initial reduction in roughing mill the stocks are rolled in
24 3 High Intermediate Mill stands. Finally, bars leaving the intermediate mill,
enters into the 24 2 High Finishing Mills stands by traveling along the roller tables.
After this finishing work the bars are cut by hot saws and cooled on one of the three
transfer banks. Finally the bars are stacked in the staking area prior to straightening.
Before dispatch, the bars are inspected, tested for chemical analysis and straightened
by the straightening machines.
Products:
Joists
Channels
Angles
Major Equipments:
v Reheating Furnace - 2 continuous end charge end discharge type.
v Roughing Mill stands - Rolls of 26 diameter two-high reversing, closed top type.
v Intermediate Mill Stands - 2 stands of 24 diameter three-high non reversing
open top housing type.
v Finishing Mill Stands - 24 diameter two-high non-reversing, open top housing
type.
v Finishing End - 2 hot saws.
v Straightening Machine - 3 cold straightening machines.
SKELP MILL
Skelp Mill was not there at the initial phase of Durgapur Steel Plant. It came up
during the expansion of plant to 1.6MTPA in late 60s. Skelp is a narrow section
mostly used for the pipes and tubes manufacturing. The annual capacity of this mill is
0.25 million tone per annum.
Material Flow Diagram:
Rolled Slabs
from Billet Mill
Furnace
Pendulum
Shear
Roughing
Mill
6 x 2 High 16
E1-H1-H2-H3-E2H4-H5-E3-H6
Strapping
Machine
Process: Finished
Products
Coil
Conveyor
Vertical
Coiler
Apron
Conveyor
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Cobble
Shear
Looping
Through
Finishing
Mill
5 x 2 High 13
H7-H8-H9-H10-H11
Skelp mill receives slabs from billet mill by rail transfer bogies. The slabs are
taken on to charging table from the bogie. The slabs are fed to a reheating furnace by
a Ram charger. The furnace is of side charge and side discharging type. The furnace
is fired by a mixture of coke oven and Blast Furnace gas in a ratio of 1:1.
The furnace has a heating capacity of 60T/Hr. The slabs are sent to the mill
section, which consists of 11 horizontal strands and 3 vertical strands. These are
arranged as shown below:
E1-H1-H2-H3-H4-H5-E3-H6-COBBLE SHEAR-LOOPING TROUGH-H7-H8-H9-H10-H11.
Where H refers to horizontal strands and E refers to vertical edge. The roughing mill
constitutes strands from H1 to H6 while H7 to H 11 constitute the finishing mill.
After rolling, the Skelp or strip is coiled and the coil is dispatched to customers.
Products:
Steel Strip and Skelp from 147 to 252 mm in width and 2.5 to 4.5 mm thick.
MERCHANT MILL
Merchant Mill takes billets of size 100 mm x 100 mm from CCP and produces
plain round bars and ribbed TMT bars of various diameters. The capacity of Merchant
Mill is 0.28 million tone per annum of plain round and thermo mechanically treated
(TMT) ribbed bars of dia. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 28 mm.
Material Flow Diagram:
Intermediate
Mill
Finishing
Mill
Despatch
Area
Roughing
Mill
Thermax
Process
Up Down Cut
Pendulam Shear
Rotary
Shear
Automatic Bundling
/ Binding Machine
Reheating
Furnace
Billets
Thru
Ram Charger
Cooling
Bed
Rotary
Shear
Process:
Billets from CCP are fed to the side charging & discharging type reheating
furnace through furnace bed and ram charger. After reheating of it is delivered to the
pinch roll and then to Roughing, Intermediate and Finishing mills stands
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Input: 12 sided Fluted Ingot of diameter 16 & 14 for wheels and Sqare blooms from
Blooming Mill for axles.
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Wheel
Ingot
Band Saw
Block Heating
Furnace
63/12MN
Press / Punch
Reheating
Furnace
Stamping
Press
20MN
Dish Press
Wheel Mill
CNC
Machining
Cold
Stamping
Heat
Treatment
Testing of
Black Wheels
Loose Wheel
W&A
Despatch
Inspection
Loose Axle
Square
Blooms
Heating
Furnace
Ultrasonic &
OtherTesting
Assembly
Dimensional
Inspection
Inspection
Axle
Machining
Forging
Hammer
Ultrasonic &
OtherTesting
Heat Treatment
Furnace
Process:
Wheel making:
The 12 sided fluted ingots are inspected and cut into numbers of blocks. After
physical inspection, blocks are heated in rotary hearth furnace for 6-8 hours to a
temperature of 1300 C. The heated cheeses are descaled and fed to 63/12 MN Press
for forging & punching. After this, wheel blanks are heated in batch type reheating
furnace to 1150 C. The wheel is then rolled in a computerized wheel mill, where
wheels achieve profile & dimension.
After rolling, the wheels are fed to a 20MN Dishing press, where the web profile is
achieved. The wheel is then feed to a marking press of 3MN where sl. No., year and
cast no. are stamped on the back rim. The wheel is then subjected to heat treatment
which includes quenching and tempering to give hard rim and tough core. This
prevents high internal stress during cooling and prevents warping of wheels. Next
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comes the machining part, where rim face, boss face, rim blending, condemning
glove, chucking glove are machined by means of CNC machines.
Finally, the wheels are subjected to various tests such as Ultrasonic Test,
Magnetic particle Test and BHN which are RITES certified.
Axle making:
Square bloom made of killed steel is the raw material for axle. These blooms are
heated for 6-8 hours in continuous pusher type furnaces after inspection. Blooms are
forged in a 7 tonnes hand operated axle forging hammer. The process takes around 910 minutes and the finishing temperature is 850 C. The axles are then subjected to
heat treatment. After heat treatment, axle is straightened in 150 ton horizontal
straightening press. Then the axles are allowed to cool down in normal conditions.
Axle ends are sawed and are rough turned, then finish turned. Ultrasonic test is
performed for checking physical soundness of every axle. The axles are inspected for
dimensional accuracy at every stage of the process and for surface & diameter defects
after completion.
Finally set wheels and axles go to assembly section. After assembly the set is
checked for track gauge and after inspection it is despatched .
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Foundry
DSP is having its own foundry, referred as captive foundry. The main products are:
v Ingot mould (8.5T)
v Bottom Plate (3T)
v False Plate
Casting of different small structures is also done here to cater the needs of different
shops. Important equipments are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Pneumatic Rammer
K.S. Drag barrels
Stripping plates
Mix-Mullers
Jolting machine
Stoves
Guide Pit
Cupola Furnace
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EMD supplies BF gas, CO gas and BOF gas to different consumers through pipeline
network (16.5 km long approx.).
The CO gas network process is normally maintained around 350 MMWC and for
BF gas it is 380 MMWC. These gas holder are connected with network to maintain
network gas pressure. The BOF gas, generated intermittently is first stored in a gas
holder and then pumped into BF gas network. These gases are used in different shops
either separately or mixed in different proportion before boosting up the gas pressure
through the booster fan.
So far as conservation of energy is concern, monitoring of combustion control of
different furnaces, boilers, soaking pit etc. are done by EMD on a regular basis.
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Traffic
Transportation of materials is an important activity in an integrated steel plant.
The Traffic organization plays a vital role in smooth running of the different
production units, which leads to profitability of the plant by optimizing the cost of
transportation.
The Traffic Organization consists of following departments:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Traffic Operation
Permanent Way Engineering (PWE)
TXR/Rerailment
Loco Repair Shop (LRS)
Traffic Operations:
It is taking over of all incoming wagons with raw materials and handling over of
empty & loaded wagons to Railway at Durgapur Steel exchange yard. It is also
controlling movements of different materials within different section in production
units. Commercial section looks after the commercial aspects with Railway like
freight, indenting, allotment of rakes, weightment and shortage, claim of rebates etc.
PWE Department:
It takes up repair, maintenance & renewal of 230 km network of Railway track for
smooth movement of locos & rolling stocks.
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TXR/Rerailment Department:
The TXR/Rerailment department carries out inspection of DSPs rolling stocks
for their fitness to run, take up minor repair work in different sick lines, take up all
rerailment activity of all derailed rolling stocks inside work premises.
It also does the brake-releasing activity of all incoming loads prior to the Tippling
at RMHP and Coal Tipplers.
Loco Repair Shop:
Loco Repair Shop maintain 39 nos of locomotives and 2 nos of 50T rail crane, 1
rail crane and 1 magnet crane.
Power Plant
Main Objectives are:
To provide COLD AIR BLAST to blast furnace.
To provide HP/LP process steam to BF, COCC, SMS, Oxygen & Sinter Plant.
Power generation to provide energy power requirement.
HP steam at 32 Kg/cm2
LP steam at 12.5 Kg/cm2
The capacity of this plant (4X5W=20MW). It is also called as blower plant as its
main aim is to generate steam. There are seven boilers each having capacity 60 TPH.
Steam is generated at high pressure. Boiler No. 1, 2, 5, and 6 uses coal and (BF+CO)
gas as fuel. Boiler no. 3, 4 and 7 are gas fired using (BF+CO) gas.
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Power Requirement :
Requirement of DSP & ASP is met by Power we purchase from DVC (Grid
source) & NSPCL (Captive Unit). Power demand of DSP & ASP is as following.
DSP
ASP
Average : 95 MW.
Average : 30 MW.
Source of Power :
Grid :- DVC
Captive :1.
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There is a SCADA system installed in MRS. It stand for supervisory control and
data acquisition system. It act as an inter face between main receiving station and
other distribution centers. In case of any power failure, it ensure that power supply in
critical zones remain uninterrupted. There is Computerised Islanding scheme with
load shedding package for isolation of NSPCL units from grid in case of any grid
disturbance.
Oxygen Plant
The main objectives of this department are:
v To supply generate oxygen at 99.5% purity and 16 kg/cm2 pressure. It has
nine gaseous O2 storage vessels and two liquid oxygen storage tanks. The
capacity of this plant is (2X350=700TPD).
v To supply N2 at a pressure of 8 kg/cm2 / 16 kg/cm2 at a purity of 200 PPM.
Products of this plant are:
1. Oxygen gas for BOF, CCP, BF, Rolling mills.
2. Liquid oxygen for oxygen cylinder refilling
3. N2 for BOF, CCP, BF, EMD.
4. Argon for BOF,CCP, VAD
The distribution network is spread over 18 Km in the plant.
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Process control
Inspection
Analysis and testing
Research and development
To achieve these it has a main laboratory outside the plant and the other
laboratories are inside the plant. The laboratories inside the plant are at RMHP, BF,
BOF, Coke Oven, Rolling mill, Wheel & Axle plant etc. The main lab is well
equipped with chemical, metallurgical and other facilities.
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Most of the production process & services are connected in the network and data
can be available on-line for better monitoring of the above activities.
Presently ERP is also under stage of implementation for the following modules:
v Finance & Accounting
v Sales & Distribution
v Quality
v Maintenance
v Material
v Production & Planning
The go-line is fixed as 31-03-2009.
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Developing villages
Educating masses
Securing Healthcare
Aiding Physically Challenged
Generating Employment
Promoting Sports
Galvanizing Social Change
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Introduction
Historical background
General Overview of DSP
A. Major Product Profile
B. Major Highlights
C. Process Flow diagram
Major Production Departments
A. Raw Material Handling Plant
B. Coke Oven & Coal Chemicals
C. Sinter Plant
D. Blast Furnace Complex
E. SMS Complex
i. Basic Oxygen Furnace
ii. Continuous Casting
iii. New Lime Calcination Plant
F. Blooming & Billet Mill
G. Section Mill
H. Skelp Mill
I. Merchant Mill
J. Wheel & Axle Plant
Major Services Departments
A. Central Engineering Maintenance
B. Foundry
C. Electrical Repair Shop
D. Energy Management Department
E. Environment Control Department
F. Traffic
G. Power Plant
H. Power Management Department
I. Plant Civil Engineering
J. Oxygen Plant
K. Computer Managed Maintenance System
L. Research & Control Laboratory
M. Computer & Information Technology Department
N. Human Resource Department
O. Town Administration & Services
P. Medical & Health Services
Q. Corporate Social Responsibilities
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