“New age Steel Plants Lubricants” - All India Meet at Jamshedpur

An all India steel plant meet: ”Servo® Steel Meet – 2014“ was organized by Indian Oil Corporation Limited on 4th Dec 2014 at Jamshedpur; the birth place of Indian Steel Industries. The theme of the event was “New Age Steel Plant Lubricants”. The program shared the latest Steel Making & Rolling Technology and the consequent tribological challenges imposed on the lubricant developments.

The growth and expansion of steel sectors is contingent upon modernization of steel plants embedded with technology up gradation and latest scientific adoption for quality products and improving productivity & economy. Consequently significant development in the field of lubricant and tribology is required to meet the need of such modernized steel plants. Therefore it was felt essential to organize such a meet for sharing the advanced lubrication and tribology technology for modern day steel plants.

More than 100 participants from various steel plants across the country like Tata Steel, SAIL (six plants), Essar, JSPL, JSW, JSL, RINL, Electrosteel, Tata Tinplate, ISWP, Tata Bluescope, Tata Tubes, Salem Steel Plant, Uttam Valve and Usha Martin attended the meet. Shri Anand Sen, President (TQM & Steel Business) Tata Steel, was the chief guest of the event. Many senior executives of Indian Oil were also present in the meet including Shri P. Rajendran – ED (Lubes), Executive Director (Lubes) Marketing, Shri R Suresh – ED (LT) R&D, Dr. S.K. Majumdar – GM (IL& Tribology) R&D, Dr. E Sayanna – GM (MWO & Grease) R&D, Shri K L Murty – GM(LS).

Shri P. Rajendran in his inaugural speech mentioned that this meet would generate great many inputs for development of modern steel plant lubricants which will not only improve equipment reliability but also enhance productivity and quality. Shri Anand Sen in his key note address stressed upon the significant modernization in technology that steel plants had witnessed in recent times which had resulted in complexities to lubricant supplier as the lubricant is expected to deliver a critical function while withstanding extreme operating conditions.

This program was designed to have various talks and presentations covering the following areas:

Plenary Session

“Scenario of Steel & Lubricant Industry”

1. The Indian Steel Industry in today’s globalized world
   – By Shri V K Nirala, Chief Mechanical (IM), Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

2. Modernization & Upgradation of SAIL steel plants
   – By Shri M Ravi Varma – ED (Projects), SAIL, BSL, Bokaro

3. Trends in development of lubricants for new age steel industry
   – By Shri R Suresh – ED (LT) R&D Center, Faridabad, IOCL

Panel Discussion I

“Lubrication challenges of Hydraulics & Gears in a modern steel plant”

1. Changes in hydraulics of rolling mills
   – By Shri P.K. Dash – DGM (Maint.), HSM, JSW Bellary

2. New generation gearboxes for modern steel plants
   – By Shri M.K.Jha & Shri M Sathyanarayana, Tata Steel KPO

3. Criticality of Gear Lubrication System – Crop Shear of Heavy Plate Mill
   – By Shri Manoj Badekar GM Plate Mill, Essar Steel, Surat

4. Indigenization of High performance Gear oil – Servomesh XP 320
   –By Shri Shamir Imam – AM (Bar Mill), JSPL Patratu

5. Challenges of lubrication in NTM blocks
   – By Shri A. Ravishankar – AGM (Mech. WRM), RINL Vizag

6. Lubrication of guide roll in Bar mill – Servosteel EP 100 Plus
   – By Shri P.J.Ravi – DGM (Rolling Mills), Electrosteel Bokaro

Panel Discussion II

“Lubrication challenges of BUR Bearings, Turbines & Compressors”

1. Lubrication challenges of new back up roll bearings
   – By Shri Anuj Kumar & Kashyap Adury Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

2. Critical issues with compressor & turbine lubrication
   – By Shri Dasri Raj Sekhar – Sr. Manager (CPP Operation), Usha Martin, Jamshedpur

3. High performance Morgoil bearing oils ; Compressor & Turbine Oils
   – By Shri Nitish Mittal –Manager (TS), HO, IOCL

Panel Discussion III

“Rolling lubricants”

1. Expectations from a good hot rolling oil & RBL system
   – By Shri Jagjit Singh – Head Rolling (LD3 TSCR), Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

2. Development of Role Bite Lubrication Servosteerol H2 for SAIL Bokaro
   – By Shri P.Pathak – AGM, Flat Rolling, SAIL RDCIS, Ranchi

3. Benefits achieved by use of Servo Steerol H3 in HSM of JSL Jajpur
   – By Shri Kedarinath – AM (Mech. Maint.), HSM, JSL Jajpur

4. Use of hot rolling oil Servosteerol H4 for longer roll life at SAIL BSP
   – By Shri S.K.Jain – DGM (Lub.), SAIL Bhilai

5. Roll coolant and cold rolling
   – By Shri Jafar Ghori &Abhishek Kumar, Tata Tinplate, Jamshedpur

6. Performance of Servosteerol SS C 28 in Tandem Mill & Reversible mill, RSP
   – By Shri P.Govindrajan – DGM (CRM), SAIL RSP, Rourkela

Panel Discussion IV

“Best lubrication operating & maintenance practices”

1. Condition monitoring practices in steel plants
   – Shri Amitabha Guha & P K Mahato, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

2. Possibility of TFM in steel plants
   – Shri Rakesh – DGM (Mech.), CRM, SAIL BSL, Bokaro

3. Interdependence of quality of lubricants and maintenance costs
   – Shri KCK Jyothi – AGM (MTB), SAIL DSP

4. Green Tribology – Oil Patch Test in conjunction with Ferrography and WDA
   – Shri Pradeep Agarwal – DGM (CS): JSPL, Raigarh