Refractory
TMT re-rolling mill · Chhattisgarh
Pusher-type reheating furnace
- Problem
- Refractory failure in the soaking zone causing fuel-per-tonne creep
- Constraint
- 8-day cold shutdown, mill's only planned stoppage that quarter
- Scope executed
- Full refractory relining — hearth, walls, roof, soaking zone
- Burner block replacement
- Re-commissioning and burner tuning
- Outcome
- Furnace back in production within the shutdown window; fuel-per-tonne reduced against pre-relining baseline
- Documentation delivered
- Refractory material certificates
- Commissioning report
- Duration
- 8 days
- Team size
- 10 technicians, 1 site engineer