National Energy Conservation Day Celebrated in VSP

Visakhapatnam: RINL-VSP celebrated the National Energy Conservation Day in Ukkunagaram today. To mark the occasion, week-long events were conducted to conserve energy in the plant operations.

 

Sri PC Mohapatra, Director (Projects), RINL was the chief guest at the valedictory function held today. Speaking on the occasion, Sri Mohapatra highlighted the need to conserve energy to achieve energy conservation levels of 5.6 g/cal/per ton of crude steel by increasing coal injection in the Blast Furnaces, BF fuel rate,  BF productivity and BF gas usage to improve the efficiency in power generation also. Energy conservation is one of the key parameters in steel making process, he added.

 

Sri P Raychaudhury, Director (Commercial), Sri KC Das, Director (Personnel), Sri VV Venugopala  Rao, Director (Finance),  Sri PK Rath, Director (Operation), Sri OR Ramani, ED(Works) I/C, Sri V Ramanujam, GM(Energy & Utilities), Sri TK Dey, DGM(EMD) I/c  and senior officials were present on the occasion.

 

Energy Management Department has organized Energy Conservation road show to create an awareness among the employees today.

 

Later, the dignitaries distributed prizes to the winners of various competitions conducted during the week.