Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, recently inaugurated the Nitrogen Pressure Reducing Stations to increase productivity of Blast Furnaces and reduce cost of production.

Higher rate of injection of Pulverised Coal in Blast Furnaces facilitates replacement of high cost Coke with lower cost Coal and thereby reduces the cost of production and also will help increase productivity of Blast Furnaces, stated a press release. 

The RINL team has taken initiatives and put efforts to increase its PCI (Pulverised Coal Injection) rate from existing 100 kg/per ton of Hot Metal to around 180 kg/ton of Hot Metal in Blast Furnaces 1, 2 and 3 at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. 

RINL Director (Projects) and additional charge Director (Operations), Mr. AK Bagchi, inaugurated the Nitrogen Pressure Reducing Stations to enhance Pulverised Coal Injection in all 3 Blast Furnaces.

These new units will help in reducing cost of production of Hot Metal and also increasing the productivity of Blast furnaces at RINL, he said.

He further said that said that reducing cost of production is need of the hour and added that such initiatives by RINL collective would facilitate towards making a “Turn around” of RINL, at the earliest.