EXPANSION OF VISAKHAPATNAM STEEL PLANT
LOK SABHA
There is a proposal
for installation of IVth Coke Oven Battery at Visakhapatnam Steel
Plant (VSP). Details of the proposal are as under :
- The proposed 4th
Coke Oven Battery is to meet the short fall in Blast Furnace (BF)
Coke in view of the increased production of hot metal and the
shortfall that will arise when the rebuilding programme of the
three existing coke oven batteries is taken up.
- The installation
of 4th Coke Oven Battery is a technical necessity for
sustaining plant operations at higher efficiency.
- The 4th
Coke Oven Battery will act as a replacement battery when the existing
batteries are taken up for repair/rebuilding. After the rebuilding
is completed this battery will function as an additional battery,
with some additional investments.
- The 4th
Coke Oven Battery will be 7 meters tall and will consist of 67
ovens and will be based on Russian technology. It will thus be
similar to the existing three batteries.
- There is a provision
in the plant lay-out hence the proposed new battery will be installed
in the existing coke oven battery complex adjacent to coke oven
battery No. 3.
- The 4th
Coke Oven Battery is estimated to cost Rs. 303 crores.
- The entire cost
will be borne by the company from its internal resources.
- The estimated time
for completion of the 4th Coke Oven Battery is 36 months.
This information
was given by the Minister of Steel, Shri Braja Kishore Tripathy
in a written reply to the -uestion of Dr. D.V.G. Shankar Rao in
Lok Sabha today.
