MAJOR DEPARTMENT

RAW Materials Handling Plant (RMHP):

VSP annual l y requi r es qual i ty r aw mater i al s vi z. i ri on ore, f l uxes,
coki ng and non- coki ng coal s etc. t o t he t une of 12- 13 Mi l l i on
t ones f or produci ng 3 mi l l i on tones of l i qui d st eel t o handl e such
l arge vol ume of incoming raw materials received from different source and to
ensure timelysupport of consistent quality of feed materials to different VSP
consumers,raw material handling plant serves a vital function. The unit is
provided withelaborate unloading, blending, stacking & reclaiming facilities
viz.,Wagon Tripplers, ground & track Hoppers, Stock Yards crushing
plants,v i br a t i ng s c r e e ns , s i ng l e / t wi n boo m s t a c k e r s , we a l i
n bo o m B l e ns e r recliners.I n VSP peri pher al unl oadi ng has been
adopted f or the f i r st ti me i n thecountry.
Coke Oven & Coal Chemical Division


Blast Furnace, the mother unit of any steel Plant requires huge
qualities of strong, hard and porous solid fuel in the form of hard
metallurgical coke for supplying necessary heat for carrying out the
reduction and refining reactionsbesides acting as a reducing agent.Coke is
manufactured by heating odd cursed coking coal, in absence of air
attemperature of 1000
0
C and above f or about 16 t o 18 hour s. A coke ovencomprise of
two hollow chambers namely coal chamber and heating chamber in which
a gaseous fuel such as Blast Furnace Gas, coke oven gas etc.,
isburnt. The heat so generate is conducted through the common wall to
heat &carbonize the coking placed in the adjacent coal chamber.Number of
ovens built in series one after other from a coke oven battery. AtVSP there
are 3 coke oven batteries, 7m tall and having 67 ovens each.Each
oven is having a volume of 41.6 cum and can hold upto 31.6 tones of dry
coal charge. The carbonization takes places at 1000-1500
0
C in absenceof air for 16-18 hours.Red hot coke is pushed out of the
oven and sent to coke dry cooling plantfor cooling to avoid its
combustion. There are 3 coke dry cooling plants eachhaving 4 cooling
chambers. Heat capacity of each cooling chamber is 50-52THP.
Ni t r ogen gas i s used as cool i ng medi um. Gener at i ng st eam
andexpanding to pressure turbines to produce 75MW power each
to the heatrecovery from nitrogen.The Coal chemicals such as
henzole, Tar, Ammonium sulphate etc., areextracted in the coal
chemical plant from Co Gas. After recovering the coalchemical the gas is
used as a by product fuel by mixing it with gases suchas BF, LD
etc. A mechanical, biological & chemical plant takes care of the

Sinter is a hard & porous ferrous material obtained by agglomeration
of i r o n o r e f i n e s , c o k e b r e e z e , l i m e s t o n e f i n e s m e
t a l l u r g i c a l w a s t e s Vizianagaram., mill scale D slag etc.Sinter is a better
fed material to blast furnace in comparison to iron
orel umps a nd i t s us a g e i n bl a s t f ur na c e s he l p i n i nc r e a s i ng
pr o duc t i v i t y , decrease the coke rate & improving the quality of hot
metal produced.Sinter is done 2 nos of 312 sq. m Sinter machines of Dwight
Lloyd typeby heating the prepared feed on a continuous metallic belt made of
pallets at1200- 1300
0
C.Hot Si nt er di schar ged f rom si nteri ng machi ne i s cr ushed t o
+5mm-50mm size and before dispatching to blast furnaces.
Blast Furnaces:
Hot metal is produced in blast furnace, which are tall vertical furnaces.The
furnace as 1 is run with blast at high pressure & temp. Raw
materialssuch as sinter/ iron ore lumps, fluxes and coke are charged from the
top andblast at 1100
0
C 1300
0
C and 5.75 KSCH pressure is blown almost from thebottom. The furnaces are
designated for 80% sinter in the burden.VSP has two 300 Cu.m blast furnaces
equipped with Paul worth Bellless top equipment with conveyor
charging. Rightly named as Godavari &Krishna, the furnaces will help
VSP in bring the prosperity to the state thetwo furnaces with their noval
circular cast house and 4 tap holes each arecapable of producing 9720
tones of hot metal daily or 3.4 million tones of sulphur not metal annually