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New blast furnace for SAIL’s Bhilai Steel Plant, India

Sep 22, 2010

The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is to erect a new blast furnace at Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), India.

The blast furnace No. 8 will have an inner volume of 4,060 m³. It is the largest blast furnace ever awarded to Paul Wurth in India. The order includes:

• The blast furnace itself with closed-loop cooling circuits, equipped with copper and cast iron stave coolers;
• A two-hopper bell less top charging system;
• Two flat castfloors and four tapholes, fitted with TMT full-hydraulic casthouse machines;
• High-performance hot blast stoves with internal combustion chamber including a recently developed heat recovery system which makes use of the heat from the stoves’ waste gases for savings in fuel consumption;
• An energy recovery turbine for generating electric power from the kinetic energy of the BF top gas stream;
• The pulverized coal injection system and two INBA slag granulation plants.

SAIL BSP intends to produce more than 3 million tons of hot metal per year by means of the new No. 8 BF. Start-up of the plant is planned for January 2013, after an only 28-month period from the signature of the contract.

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