WELCOME TO ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEARING FOR UP-GRADATION OF BLAST FURNACES (BF) TO ENHANCE THE PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF • BF-1 & 2 FROM 2,92,000 TPA TO 3,50,000 TPA, • BF-3 FROM 5,40,000 TPA TO 6,50,000 TPA, • SETTING UP OF ADDITIONAL OXYGEN PLANT, • INSTALLATION OF DUCTILE IRON PIPE PLANT OF 3,00,000 TPA CAPACITY, • 4 ADDITIONAL MET COKE OVENS, • SETTING UP OF FE-SI PLANT OF 5,000 TPA CAPACITY AT AMONA AND NAVELIM VILLAGES, BICHOLIM TALUKA, NORTH GOA DISTRICT, GOA Project Proponent Environment Consultant M/s. Vedanta Limited Vimta Labs Ltd., Hyderabad Goa (QCI/NABET Accredited EIA Consultancy Organization, QCI Sr. No. 163, NABL Accredited & ISO 17025 Certified and MoEF&CC Recognized Laboratory) 1 PROJECT PROPONENT • Vedanta Limited, formerly Sesa Goa Limited, is the subsidiary of Vedanta Ltd. • The company’s main business focus on zinc, lead, silver, aluminum, copper, iron ore, oil & gas and commercial power, while its operations span across India, South Africa, Namibia, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and Liberia. • Sesa Goa has been engaged in exploration, mining and processing of iron ore. • The group has been involved in iron ore mining, beneficiation and exports. • During 1991-1995, it diversified into the manufacture of pig iron and metallurgical coke. • Vedanta operates value addition business in Goa with 832 KTPA hot metal, 1 MTPA sinter, 622 KTPA coke plant and 65 MW waste heat recovery power plant. 2 PROJECT PROPOSAL • TOR application for integrated proposal was filed vide proposal no. IA/GA/IND/89225/2018 dated 20th December, 2018. Based on the TOR conditions stipulated by MoEF&CC vide letter No. F.No.IA-J-11011/946/2007-IA.II (I) dated 6th March 2019. Draft EIA has been prepared • Vedanta Limited division operates two mini blast furnaces (MBF’s), BF#1, BF#2 having Consent to Operate (CTO) capacity of 2,92,000 TPA which are under operation at Amona village, Bicholim taluka, North Goa district, Goa. • The production capacity enhancement to 3,50,000 TPA will be done through process optimization and efficiency improvement as below: Sr. No B.F 1 & 2 Production Increase in Production (MT) 1 Increasing wind volume from current level of 30,000 21,677 Nm3/h to 32,000 Nm3/h 2 Increasing Fe percentage in burden (iron 6,953 ore/pellets/sinter) from 56.89 % to 58.48 % 3 Improving plant OEE from current 90.97 % to 91.97 % 3,210 through uniformity of hot metal bay handling facility 4 Increasing basic grade production 10,965 5 Increased by oxygen enrichment from current level of 0 % 11,017 to 2 %. 6 Increased by increase in sinter from 35 % to 50 %. 4,178 7 Total increase in production 58,000 3 PROJECT PROPOSAL • BF-3 of capacity 5,40,000 TPA operates at Navelim village, Bicholim taluka, North Goa district, Goa. • The production capacity enhancement to 6,50,000 TPA will be done through process optimization, technology upgradation and installation of oxygen plant. Increase in Production Sr. No Blast Furnace Up gradation (MT) 1 Replacement of shell, critical zone cast iron staves with 19,000 copper staves and refractory modification to enhance volume increase 2 By increasing wind volume from 80 to 90 KNm3/hr and 55,000 addition of 2 numbers of GCP silo, one strand of PCM, additional conveyor in stock house and up gradation of BF gas pipeline to handle increased BF gas, raw material and hot metal 3 Increasing oxygen enrichment by 8-10 % 56,000 4 Increasing Fe % in iron ore from 58 % to 61 % 20,000 5 Total increase in production 1,50,000 4 PROJECT PROPOSAL (CONTINUED…) EXISTING AND PROPOSED PRODUCTION CAPACITY DETAILS Existing Production Proposed Additional/ new Sr. No Products Final Capacity capacity Capacity 1 B.F -1 & 2 2,92,000 TPA 58,000 TPA 3,50,000 TPA 2 Blast furnace-3 5,40,000 TPA 1,10,000 TPA with 6,50,000 TPA technology up gradation 3 Met coke production 6,22,000 TPA 0 6,22,000 TPA (4 ovens will be added to achieve the existing production capacity) 4 Fe-Si plant Nil 5,000 TPA 5,000 TPA 5 Proposed ductile iron Nil 3,00,000 TPA 3,00,000 TPA pipe plant from blast furnace - 3 6 Waste heat recovery power 65 MW Nil 65 MW plant 7 Sinter plant 10,00,000 TPA Nil 10,00,000 TPA 8 Oxygen & nitrogen plant 100 TPD oxygen & 50 150 TPD Oxygen 250 TPD oxygen & 50 TPD Nitrogen TPD Nitrogen 5 INDEX MAP 6 STUDY AREA MAP Environment Settings Nearest village Mayni village (0.3 km, SSE) & Amona village (0.6 km, NW) Nearest town & district Sankhali town (8 km, North) North Mapusa (30 km, NW) Nearest highway NH-4A (5.2 km, WSW) Nearest railway line Carambolim (Karmali) railway station (8 km, WSW) Nearest airport Dabolim airport (21 km, SW) Nearest seaport Mormugao port (21.7 km, SW) Interstate boundary Goa-Maharashtra (9.1 km, N) Ecological sensitive • Mhadei WLS (9.8 km, NE) (ESZ-8.6 km) areas • Bondla WLS (10.5 km, SE) (ESZ-9.6 km) • Dr.Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary (12.4 km, W) (ESZ-12.2 km) Reserve forest • Reserve forest (5.9 km, ESE) • Reserve forest (6.6 km, E) • Reserve forest (R.F) near Salili (9.5 km, NE) Water bodies • Mandovi river (0.4 km, W) • Kudne river (1.0 km, N) • Valvot river (3.5 km, N) • Kumbharjua Nadi (4.2 km, WSW) • Karmali lake (6.0 km, SW) • Arabian sea (15 km, WSW) List of wetlands • Wet land nearby Amona (0.3 km, N) • Wet land nearby Candola (1.45 km, W) • Wet land nearby Candola (1.6 km, W) • Wetland nearby Karapur (2.4 km, N) • Wetland nearby Karapur (3.8 km, N) • Wet land near Carambolim (7.0 km, SW) • Chorao Island (12.4 km, W) List of protected • The Mosque and Tank at Tar Surla (1.5 km, SE) monuments/sites • Caves at Naroa (1.9 km, SE) • Site of Gujir (2.2 km, N) • Site of Fortess at St. Estevam (3.2 km, WNW) • Fort of Sanquelim (4.4 km, N) • Temple of Saptakoteshwar (5.9 km, WNW) • Fort Naroa (6.0 km, W) • Chapel of Our Lady of Monte (6.9 km, W) • Ruins of Brahmapuri (7.0 km, W) • Namzgah/ Idgah Mosque (7.1 km, NW) • Chapel of St. Xavier (7.5 km, W) • Church of St. Peter (7.9 km, W) • Old Goa Church (Approx. 8.0 km, W) • Caves at Mangueshi (8.2 km, SW) • Site of Ruins of Manguesh temple (8.3 km, SW) • Convent of St. Monica & Chapel (8.6 km, W) • Ruins of College of St. Populo (8.8 km, W) • Shri Saptakoteshwar temple (10.6 km, SSE) • Ruins of Jaina Basti (11.0 km, S) • Chapel of St. Jereonimus (11.3 km, W) • Shri Nagesh temple (11.3 km, S) • Site –Ruins of Ramnath temple (12.3 km, S) • Casa da Polovra (13 km, W) • Shri Mahadeva temple (13.5 km ,S) • Caves of Siddhanath (16.8 km, SSE) 7 Seismicity Seismic zone-III GOOGLE IMAGE-10 KM RADIUS Latitude Longitude A 15031’44.35”N 73058’ 58.76”E B 15031’21.14”N 73059’ 7.70”E C 15030’25.08”N 740 0’ 26.74”E D 15031’5.72” N 740 0’ 27.21”E E 15031’ 37.16”N 73059’ 55.24” E 8 PROPOSED SITE PHOTOGRAPHS Proposed DI Pipe Plant Site Proposed Fe-Si Plant site 9 EXISTING SITE PHOTOGRAPHS Blast Furnace with Hot Blast stoves Blast Furnace (BF)-3 Coke Oven Plant Waste Heat Recovery Boiler 10 LAYOUT MAP 11 RESOURCE REQUIREMENT Land Requirement • No additional land acquisition is involved as the proposed expansion will be taken up within the existing plant premises. Power Requirement • The total power requirement after proposed expansion is 55.5 MW. • Existing power requirement is 27 MW. This requirement will be sourced from 65 MW captive power plant and external grid. Manpower Requirement • The proposed expansion project will generate opportunities for employment of around 450-500 people. • This project will also generate additional livelihood opportunities for stakeholders 12 RESOURCE REQUIREMENT Water Requirement • Total additional water requirement for the proposed expansion project will be 2,400 KLD with total requirement of 12,744 KLD. • Out of this 4,320 KLD is from Mandavi river with a blanket permission and rest is from Bandhara on Valvonti river with permission for 6000 KLD of water obtained from the GWRD vide letter no: 7-5(REV) /AGR /WDI /ACCTS /01/2012-13, dated 19th April, 2012. • Additional 4000 KLD approval has been received vide Letter No: WRD/WDI/ASW/F.15/2019-20/38 dated 03.06.2019. TOTAL WATER REQUIREMENT Sr. No Description Existing Water Proposed Final Water Requirement Addition Requirement (m3/day) (m3/day) (m3/day) 1 Slag granulation 1,920 490 2,410 2 Cooling tower 3,120 440 3,560 3 Gas cleaning plant 48 10 58 4 PCM mould cooling 1,440 220 1,660 5 Coke quenching & 1,560 0 1,560 others 6 Dust suppression 624 0 624 7 DI plant & Fe-Si plant 0 1,240 1,240 8 DM plant & domestic 360 0 360 9 Cooling tower and 1,200 0 1,200 blow down 10 Process 72 0 72 Total (m3/day) 10,344 2,400 12,744 13 m3/hour 431 100 531 RESOURCE REQUIREMENT Raw Material Requirement RAW MATERIAL-PIG IRON, COKE & SINTER Sr. No Materials Existing (Tons) Additional Proposed Final Source Mode of Transportation (Tons) (Tons) From mines located Road ways/ Railways/ in Goa and adjoining Waterways 1 Iron ore fines for sinter 10,01,777 1,79,652 11,81,429 states From mines located Road ways/ Railways/ in Goa and adjoining Waterways 2 Iron ore lumps 5,92,216 1,43,580 7,35,796 states Inhouse and Roadways 3 Coke 5,05,548 69,720 5,75,268 Purchased 4 PCI 86,260 39,240 1,25,500 Imported By water ways Domestic Road ways/ Railways/ (Karnataka) as well as Waterways 5 Limestone 15,8060 29,342 1,87,402 imported Domestic (Karnataka) Road ways/ Railways/ as well as imported Waterways 6 Dolomite 1,39,363 25,989 1,65,352 Domestic Roadways/Railways (Maharashtra and 7 Quartzite 42,898 8,633 51,531 Karnataka) Karnataka & Roadways 8 Quick Lime 46,743 8,383 55,126 Rajasthan 9 Coke breeze 69,051 12,383 81,434 In house Roadways Import - Australia Waterways 10 Coal for coke production 8,30,000 - 8,30,000 14 RESOURCE REQUIREMENT