Seminars & Conferences
All India Seminar on “Major advances and Sustainable Developments in Lubrication Domain”
Tata Steel in association with National Grease Lubricating Institute (NGLI) India Chapter and The Institution of Engineers inaugurated a two-day Seminar on 13th & 14th September 2018 titled “All India Seminar on Major Advances and Sustainable Developments in Lubrication Domain” in Jamshedpur.
Lubrication in an integrated steel plant is a subject of significance owing to numerous types of lubricants being used for a diverse range of equipment. Steel plants work under varied operating conditions such as extreme heavy load to very high speeds, low to high temperatures, dusty polluted environment to humid acid environment scenarios. Hence proper selection of lubricants is essential for smooth operations in steel plants and for ensuring reliability of equipment.
Participants from diverse fields including steel plants, OEMs, academia participated in the seminar. There were more than 250 delegates.
The major sessions were Advances in Fire Resistant Lubricants, Advances in Health Monitoring of Lubrication Systems, Advances in Lubricants to increase Re-lubrication intervals, Advances in Lubrication Program management, Advances in Fire Resistant Lubricants and Advances in lubricants for Mining Equipment.
The objective of this seminar was to share the best practices on Lubricants right from the designing stage to its usage for which academic institutions, Lubricant and Grease manufacturers and steel plants are doing a cross sharing of ideas through technical paper presentations.
The first place for the best technical presentation was won by Mr. Kanchan Ramachandra Chatterjee, Business Manager-Heavy Engineering, Carl Bechem India for his presentation on the subject 'Anti Friction Coatings and its application for Steel Industry'. The second and third spot was shared by Mr. Ronald Knecht, Quaker Lubricants and Mr. Nitin M, Hydac India for their paper presentations on ‘Fire resisting lubricants’ and ‘Condition monitoring of lubricants’ respectively.
Major steel producers like JSW, SAIL Group, JSPL, Bhushan Steel, Vedanta and Essar Steel ;Lubricant and Grease manufacturers; OEMs like Primetals, Paul Wurth and academic institutions such as IIT's, CMERI and RDCIS were the participants at the seminar.
