Summary:
Acharya, CMD, NLCIL, on Wednesday commissioning the re-routed conveyor system in mine-I at Neyveli. To reduce the cost of production of lignite, the production conveyor is directly connected with the stacking conveyors through one single conveyor having four drives. Acharya, chairman and managing director, NLCIL, has commissioned the re-routed conveyor system in Mine-I, which is expected to bring down the production cost of lignite. The production conveyors are connected to the stacking conveyors through five link conveyors of length of 2,719 m.There are 10 drives (630 KW capacity) in these link conveyors. Mine-I Lignite Bench system is operated with 2,000 mm belt conveyor to transport the lignite from the site of excavation to the stack yard..