India’s Tata Steel Limited has started the process of decommissioning process of its coke oven battery No. 7 at its Jamshedpur steel mill to avoid “misinterpretation of the flaring that will occur during the process of retiring the battery,” the company said in a statement on Monday, January 27.
The coke oven battery No. 7, India’s first stamp charge coke oven battery, which remained operational for 36 years, produced over 12 million mt of coke and revolutionized the steel industry, the company said in a statement.
The decommissioning process will involve isolating the battery from the by-product plant foul gas suction network.
During the shutdown, raw gas from the ovens will be safely flared from oven top flares and ascension pipes as per standard operating procedures, the statement said.
