Tata Steel has set up the country’s largest Coke Dry Quenching (CDQ) facility capable of handling 200 metric tonnes (MT) of the hot fuel per hour at its greenfield Kalinganagar steel plant in Odisha. Nippon Steel and Sumkin Engineering (NSENGI) of Japan was the supplier and technology partner of the CDQ system and the project was executed by Essar Projects.
CDQ is a heat recovery system to cool the hot coke from ovens. Compared to conventional wet quenching, CDQ offers advantages such as reduction in dust emission and improvement of coke quality.
Tata Steel, the flagship company of the Tata group is the first integrated steel plant in Asia and is now the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer and a Fortune 500 Company.
