BHILAI STEEL PLANT

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption on our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider on our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Introduction

Location..

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Block diagram . 4 Product...5

Captive mines.

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Steel malting shop..6

coke oven Blast Furnaces

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Plate mill.7 Rail mill...

INTRODUCTION
BHILAI STEEL PLANT
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is Indias sole producer of rails and heavy steel plates and major producer of structural. The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 meters. With an annual production capacity of 3.153 MT of saleable steel, the plant also specializes in other products such as wire rods and merchant products. Since BSP is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Standard, all saleable products of Bhilai Steel Plant come under the ISO umbrella. At Bhilai IS0:14001 has been awarded for Environment Management System in the Plant, Township and Dalli Mines and it is the only steel plant to get certification in all these areas. The Plant is accredited with SA: 8000 certification for social accountability and the OHSAS-18001 certification for Occupational health and safety. These internationally recognized certifications add value to Bhilais products and helps create a place among the best organizations in the steel industry.

Location: Forty kms west of Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh, along the Howrah-Mumbai railway line and the Great-Eastern highway, stands Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP).

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF BSP

STEEL MALTING SHOP

Steel-making through BOF, VAD/Ladle Furnace/RH-Degasser and Continuous casting route

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3 converters of 110/130 T VAD unit, RH degasser, Ladle furnace 3 Slab Casters, 1 bloom caster, 1 Combi caster

Annual Capacity: 1.425 MT Cast steel

Blast Furnaces
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3 of 1033 Cu m capacity each 3 of 1719 Cu m capacity each 1 of 2350 Cu m capacity

PLATE MILL
The first plate was made by BSP in 29 march 1983 & it was established by Aug 1975

Some general Information about plate mill

Capacity Plates thickness Width Length - 9,50,000 T - 8-120 mm - 1500-3270 mm - 5-12.5 M

The modern Plate Mill rolls out heavy and medium plates, as well as those for pipe manufacturers. Plates of wide variety, in any required size, and strength, chemical and physical properties, can be produced here. It has capacity to produce high pressure, boiler quality and high tensile steels. Shipbuilding plates, conforming to Lloyds specifications, and pressure vessel boiler plates, conforming to various ASTM, ASME standards, have withstood the challenges of nature and time. Some of the unique features of the mill are on-line finishing facilities and off-line normalizing facilities. Bhilai has the widest plate mill in the country, and it uses continuously cast slabs as input. Liquid steel produced under controlled conditions in the LD Converters is rinsed with argon gas to homogenize the composition as well as to remove non-metallic inclusions before continuous casting so as to ensure the production of high quality feedstock for the Plate Mill. As per customers' requirement or specifications, plates are normalized in a roller hearth normalizing furnace.

RAIL MILL
Capacity Products
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7,50,000 T

Rails - R52 Kg/m & R60 Kg/m ; UTS 880 N/mm2 rails as per IRST-12/96 specifications , Euronorms and international standards. Thick web asymmetric rail Zu 1-60 Beams - 600,500,450,400,350,300 & 250. Channels - 400,300 & 250. Angles - 200 & 150. Crossing Sleeper. Crane Rails - KP80, 100,120 & 140. Bhilai is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 meters.

Bhilai Rails
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Largest producer and leading rail maker of the world. Four and a half decades of experience in rail making. Produced over 15 million tonnes of rails; 2.7 lakh km in length. Indian Railways- Worlds second largest rail company moves exclusively on Bhilai rails. Bhilai rails are subjected to worlds highest traffic density and axle loads. Rails exported to 10 countries with exports to South Korea, New Zealand, Argentina, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Bhilais Special Purpose Rails

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Copper Molybdenum Corrosion resistant rails High yield strength/ UTS vanadium micro-alloyed rails High conductivity metro rails Copper-Chromium alloyed High strength Rails