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Adriyala picks up, Feb output may touch 200,000 t

February 10: Overcoming the initial technical glitches, the Adriyala Longwall underground mining project of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has picked up production and is expected to achieve an output of 200,000 tons in February, a company source told ICMW.

“The Adriyala project is picking up. Average production has increased to 6,000 tons this month. We expect to get around 200,000 tons in February,” the source said.
“The highest daily production so far has been 9,500 tons,” he added.
Earlier, commercial production at Adriyala was delayed by a month to December due to recurrent power tripping caused by a fault in its automated electrical system. This was suspected to result from the long duration of operation and some technical snag.

Subsequently, the equipment suppliers and engineers were deployed to attend to the problem.

“In December, production was around 100,000 tons and we achieved almost the same level of output in January. Since the start of February, there has been an improvement in daily production,” the official said.

Adriyala is touted as Asia’s biggest longwall project and will have a peak production level of 2.81 million tons per annum (mtpa). It involved an investment of Rs 846 crore and is the biggest project undertaken by SCCL so far.

The project will feed NTPC’s Ramagundam power station in Telangana.