Jharkhand State PCS

• 03 Jan 2022

Inauguration of Ammonium Sulphate Plant at BSL

Why in News

Recently, the new Ammonium Sulphate Plant of BSL's Coke Oven and By Product Group was inaugurated by Executive Director (Projects) R Kushwaha and Executive Director (Works) Atanu Bhowmik.

Key Points

• The ammonium sulphate plant is an important unit of the by-product group, where coke oven gas is processed and ammonia is separated from it to form ammonium sulphate.
• The Marketing Division of BSL markets Ammonium Sulphate, which is mainly used as a fertilizer in agriculture.
• The project was completed with the help of GM (Projects) Pankaj Dev Rai, DGM (Projects) Asghar Raza, GM (Projects) Chandrashekhar Azad, GM (Projects) Deepak Kumar and coke oven officers and staff.
• The gas handling capacity of this plant is 1 lakh eighty thousand Nm cubic per hour.