EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DAYS 2017 - ESTAD 2017

UHT has delivered and commissioned the world’s largest GRANSHOT® metal granulation unit to TATA Steel’s new steel plant in Kalinganagar, Odisha. The delivery enables a seamless industrial route for excess blast furnace iron with a granulation capacity of 300 ton/h. The GRANSHOT® unit is engineered for tapping directly from the torpedo to enable easy metal transfer between the blast furnace and the granulation site. This has provided better internal logistics during start-up of the blast furnace and steel plant by allowing independent operation of the two units. The granulated pig iron, GPI®, marketed by TATA as Ferroshots have been very well received by the users. The granulated product is very suitable for use in steelmaking operations such as the electric arc furnace and basic oxygen furnace as well as in foundries as a replacement of DRI and scrap. This paper will present the GRANSHOT® plant at TATA KPO, discuss operational experiences and the usability of the granulated product at the final customers.