A REPORT

ON PRACTICAL TRAINING
TAKEN AT
BHILAI STEEL PLANT STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LTD. BHILAI,
CHATISHGAD

Date:- 06-06-2005 to 02-07-2005

Submitted To:Prof. M.R.Baid

HOD, Mech. Engg.

Submitted By:Mr.Rahul Godara

II B.E. (Mech. Engg.)
J.I.E.T., Jodhpur

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

JODHPUR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MOGRA, JODHPUR (RAJ.)

Ore handling plant

OBJECTIVES OF OHP: 1. To reduces interferences of internal traffic movements and to unload
raw material.
2. Blending by making homogenous pile of raw material.

3. Keeping buffer stock of raw material and their uninterrupted supply.

THE RAW MATERIAL ARE TRANSFERRED TO
CONSUMERS SUCH AS: Iron ore fines to SP2 & SP3.
Iron ore to blast furnace.
Low silicon limestone to RMP2 & SMS2.
High silicon dolomite to SP2, SP3 & SMS2.
EQUIPMENTS
PADDLE FEEDER
WAGON TIPLLER
PUSHER CAR
STACKER
BLENDER BARAL
RECLAIMER
TRANSFER CAR
EXCAVATOR
TRAVELING FEED BINS
TRIPLER CAR
CRANE (EOT)
DOZER
3D EXCAVTOR

Blast furnace
There are 2 main section of the department:
1. Raw material section
2. Furnace section

Raw material section:

The raw materials used for the production of pig iron are:
Coke (fuel), Iron Ore, Sinter (Fe-bearing material), Limestone (Flux)
& Mn-Ore and Quartzite (additives).

Furnace Section:

 Blast Furnace is a vertical shaft furnace, enclose in a welded shell,

lined with fire-clay bricks of high alumina content.
The walls of the furnace top are protected by steel refractory lined
plates cooling the shaft,
TOP CHARGING EQUIPMENT
The bell type chaging device (exhisting in BF 1,2 & 3) has a big bell, small bell
with hoppers, gas seal, and receiving hopper; and receives raw material from an
oval shaped receiving hopper. In BF-3 RCU (Rotating Charging Unit) is provided,
by means of which charging can be distributed in desired sector inside the furnace
BFs. #4,5,6 & 7 are equipped with paul gate, upper sealing valve, lower material
gate and lower sealing valve. This system also has a gearbox to operate a rotating
chute. The latter distributes the material inside the furnace peripherally in different
rings. This facilities better distribution of charge inside the furnace.

CHARGING PROGRAMME: To facilitate smooth working of furnaces, the following charging

programme is normally practiced.
A. Programme COC / COOCC / CCOOC
B. Programme CCOO
Each charging cycle consist of 3 programmes of A & B exclusively
or in combination depending on peripheral conditions. Generally in
Bell-less Top Furnace the programme selected is B i.e. CCOO,
C=COKE; O=NON-COKE i.e. ore, sinter, Mn ore, lime atone or
quartzite.
STOVES
Form bottom of the furnace the hot blast is blown into the
furnace through tuyers with the help of turbo-blowers & hot blast
stove.
Blast of Air reaches as follows:
CB Main
Stoves
HB Main
Cold blast
Gooseneck pipe Tuyer stock
Furnace.

Bustle pipe

FLUSHING OF SLAG: TAPPING AND DISPOSAL OF HOT

METAL

 The furnace is provided with a tap hole, which is enclosed in a steel cast
frame and is cooled by two Tap hole coolers, which have their own supply
of water.
The hot metal is tapped out at an interval of 1-2 hrs depending upon the
furnace condition.
The usual way of opening the tap hole is to drill the tap hole until the skull
is reached. Oxygen lancing is carried out melt the skull.
The hot metal continues to flow down the bend runner form, which it
is diverted into individual metal ladles.
At the end of tapping the tap hole is closed with mudgun, which is electrically or
hydraulically operated

Fleets of 78-iron ladles car are available, out of which normally 48 are in
circulation in cases all seven furnace are in operation.
Source of Raw Materials:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Iron Ore
Lime Stone
Manganese
Sinter
Coke
Converter Slag

. Dalli, Rajahara Mines

. Nandini Mines
. Balaghat Mines
. Sintering Plants (SP-2, SP-3)
. Coke Ovens (Coke sorting plants)
. SMS l l

Requirements for producing of one ton of Hot Metal

(Specific Consumption)
Iron Ore
. 459 Kg
Lime Stone
. 850 Kg(Depending on Sinter Usage)
Manganese
. 800 Kg(50% in burden)
. 35 Kg
Sinter

Coke
Converter

.
Slag

WORKERS TAKING OUT

MOLTEN IRON
FROM THE BLAST FURNACE
THIS IRON IS CALLED AS

PIG IRON

08 Kg
.

30kg