Production starts at Tata Steel's Kalinganagar coke oven

Tata Steel today said production of coke has started at its Kalinganagar project in Odisha and it is set for commissioning of the first phase of its 3 million tonne steel plant.
Tata Steel's Greenfield project at Kalinganagar began coke production on September 4 from its Coke Ovens, the company said in a statement.
Rajiv Kumar, Vice President, (Operation), KPO, Tata Steel said in a statement that the company is confident of meeting the deadline for the commissioning of the first phase of 3 million tonne per annum and rolling out of crude and saleable steel from the plant.
However, the company did not mention the deadline for commissioning. Earlier it had said it will commission the plant in the first half of 2015.

Coking coal, when heated in Coke Ovens in absence of oxygen, releases the volatile components and gets converted to coke which is then used in blast furnace along with iron ore for producing Hot Metal. This Hot Metal is further processed during steel-making.
Kalinganagar Project is the largest single location greenfield steel project in India having a rated capacity of 3 MTPA in first phase.
Various units of plant will start commercial production sequentially. In the first phase, the steel plant will have two Coke Oven battery, each comprising 88 ovens and having a gross coke production capacity of 1.5 MTPA. With this event, Coke Oven gas also will be available, which will be used as fuel for other production units.