Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has recorded its best ever single day crude steel output of 11,285 tonne from its two steel melting shops — SMS-I and SMS-II.
Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), the first integrated steel plant in the public sector in India, was set up with German collaboration with an installed capacity of 1MnT. Subsequently, its capacity was enhanced to 2 MnT of hot metal, 1.9 MnT of crude steel and 1.67 MnT of saleable steel.
After implementing a massive modernization and expansion, Rourkela Steel Plant has enhanced its capacity to 4.5 MnT of hot metal and 4.2 MnT of Crude Steel.
The SMS-II alone produced 10615 tonne of hot metal. RSP as the plant has embarked upon an enhanced production regime with its fourth and fifth blast furnaces producing hot metal at more than their rated capacity consistently over the last two months.
The challenge before the steel smelting shop was to raise their performance in order to convert the increased quantity of hot metal produced into crude steel . The record hot metal output is the outcome of revamping of crude steel making facilities.
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