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Kilburn Engineering Ltd, a BM Khaitan group company, in technical collaboration with a US company – Carrier Vibrating Equipment Inc — will supply a system to JSW Ispat for drying highly combustible metallurgical coke.
JSW Ispat, which does not have a coke-oven battery at its steel plant at Penn in Raigarh district of Maharashtra and relies solely on imported coke, will install it.
Mr A. Suresh, Vice-President (Finance) and CFO of Kilburn, told Business Line that the coke would be dried at 400 degree centigrade using blast furnace gas.
“The process of drying coke has been laboratory-tested by our Kentucky-based technical partner in a simulator. This is for the first time that such a system will be actually installed”, he added.
The vibratory fluid bed drying system would cost JSW Ispat Rs 5 crore and is expected to be commissioned within six months.
The system is expected to generate significant cost savings in the long term as imported coke gets wet substantially during its sea voyage and loses a great deal of its economic value.
Meanwhile, Kilburn has recently obtained an order from McNally Bharat for supplying four titanium vessels for Rs 7.1 crore. These would be put to use at the Bhillai Steel Plant of SAIL. These vessels would be used for storing chemicals.
Kalpakkam order
Kilburn will set up a new drying and calcinations facility for uranium spent fuel at Kalpakkam nuclear fuel complex in Tamil Nadu as an EPC contract worth Rs 10 crore. The company has received a Letter of Intent from the country's Heavy Water Board for a system to dry and calcinate spent uranium fuel. Kilburn's current order book is worth Rs 80 crore, including export orders of Rs 25 crore.
“Several international companies including BASF, Fluor Daniel, Linde Praxair and Lanxess have evaluated (our) designing and manufacturing capabilities. Some of them have started enquiries with us. Kilburn's export orders are mainly for rotary dryers from the carbon black industry and some orders for fabrication in exotic materials and for tea dryers”, Mr Suresh said.
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