RAW MATERIAL HANDLING PLANT

RMHP is the area where raw material are handles and kept uniformly on bed and hence furthur processed and send to the required areas in the plant. Materials handled Coal Lime Stone Flux Work done in RMHP Tippling (4 tipplers) Conveying (length range from 40 to 45 KM) Stacking (7 stackers) Reclaiming (6 reclaimer) Squirrel Cage and Double Squirrel Cage Induction Motor are used in big conveyers.( 250KW power) Slip Ring Motors are used in Tippler, Crane, Tram Car Pusher(TCP) as here high starting torque is required. Variable Voltage Variable Frequency(VVVF) systems are used in RMHP. Special motors are installed which remains loaded even when speed is zero, and it is applicable at stacker, reclaimer, power cable reeling drum(PCRD). Raw Material Handling plant is meant for transporting materials from Raw material yard/Base mix yard to various process units of the plant. The Major Raw materials required for Iron and Steel making are are Iron ore lump, Iron Ore fines, Sized iron ore, Flux limestone / dolomite, manganese, Quartzite coking coal, Non-coking coal ( for Boiler operation & For Pulverized coal injection )and coke. Lump iron ores, iron ore fines and flux such as limestone and dolomite received by railway rake are unloaded in wagon tippler and stored in open storage yard with help of various stockyard machines.

Iron ore lump, flux such as limestone and dolomite, Coke is reclaimed by suitable stock yard machine and are crushed in Ore crushing plant, Flux crushing plant and coke crushing plant respectively to produce the size required. The above material is proportionately stacked by suitable stacking machine in base mix yard and blended while reclaiming by blender reclaimer, while preparing base mix which then transported to Sinter plant for sinter production.

For feeding material to new blast furnace, sized ore and flux is reclaimed by stock yard machine from respective yard and conveyed by conveyor. Sinter produced in sinter plant and coke from existing/new coke ovens is transported directly to BF-3 stock house by conveyor. Purchased coke and necessary calcined lime from stock yard and new lime calcining plant respectively is transported to SMS by Conveyor. The waste product from the plant is mainly

dust and method of their disposal is through dust suppression system and inter plant transportation.

The Raw Materials and Material Handling Plant receives, blends, stores and supplies different raw materials to Blast Furnace, Sinter Plant and Refractory Materials Plant as per their requirements. It also maintains a buffer stock to take care of any supply interruptions.

Some 9 MT of different raw materials viz. Iron ore fines and lumps, Limestone (BFand SMS grade), Dolomite lumps and chips, hard Coal and Manganese ore are handled. Iron ore and fluxes are sourced from the captive mines of SAIL situated at Kiriburu, Meghahataburu, Bhawanathpur, Tulsidamar and Kuteshwar. Washed coal is supplied from different washeries at Dugda, Kathara, Kargali and Giddi, while raw coal is obtained from Jharia coalfields.