VIZAG STEEL BAGS NATIONAL ENERGY
CONSERVATION AWARD
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has bagged the prestigious National
Energy Conservation Award (First Prize) - 2003 for the second
consecutive year in appreciation of becoming the lowest energy
consumption plant in the Integrated Steel Plants sector in the
country. The award was presented to VSP by the Union Minister
for Power at a function held here yesterday.
VSP launched
a mass movement for energy conservation at grass root level right
from the inception. The massive efforts of the plant management
in implementing 38 energy conservation projects during 2002-03
have helped save Rs. 59 crore.
It is for the
third time that VSP is winning such an award from Government of
India. VSP won second prize in 2001 for achieving lowest energy
consumption of 7.10 Gcal/tls (ton of Liquid Steel). It improved
its position to first prize in 2002 by reducing energy consumption
to 6.62 Gcal/tls. Again this year with an energy consumption of
6.13 Gcal/tls, VSP bagged the first prize for the second time
consecutively.
There has been
overall improvement in all the energy parameters and significant
achievements include reduction in heat consumption at all production
units, reduction in Coke Breeze consumption at Sintering Plant,
reduction in Coke consumption at Blast Furnaces and increase in
waste heat recovery through the various energy conservation facilities.
This has been possible through the active involvement of VSP collective
and adoption of quality improvement projects exclusively for energy
conservation.
