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Harry at TATA Steel (Jamshedpur), Part II


The second set ofdays at the TATA Steel laboratories in Jamshedpur, India

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In the new Gleeble room, located in the Kundu Building
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Saurabh Kundu, Harry and Ashwin Pandit
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At the Centre of Excellence for a lecture
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The COE also houses the TATA Museum
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The audience for Harry’s lecture
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The audience for Harry’s lecture. Many familiar faces if you look carefully.
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Tea, Coffee and Sweets afterwards.
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Ashwin Pandit, Saurabh Kundu and Sourav Chatterjee
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And with Harry, after the lecture
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Take two.
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With the Kundu family in their garden at the house in Jamshedpur
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Kundu Junior and his grandmother in this picture
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Harry and Saurabh
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A picture especially for Mathew
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Pomegranate tree - most of the fruit is eaten or half-eaten by birds
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Birds enjoy the fruit
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Pigeons gathering for their afternoon feast
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With a Ferrari jacket before we all went to an epic movie
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Kundu Junior’s bike
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This was the movie, “Bajirao and Mstani”, based on a true story, of love, war and a beautiful language.
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The gang, Saurabh, Harry, Itishrw and Rishiraj Kundu, the movie buffs
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Really enjoyable movie
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Professor Shiv Brat Singh (PT Group member) visits from IIT Kharagpur
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At the Beldi club to celebrate the publication in Acta of the TATA team’s paper
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The team involved in the Acta paper
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Gas storage at the steel plant
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Tetrakaidecahedra being made by an artist for the Kundu building. This is an early model.
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Rough models
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The blueprints
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A paper model
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The arist, whose creations are in many places in Jamshedpur
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Note the bird on this lorry
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Torpedo truck conveying steel
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Torpedo truck conveying steel
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Ladle carrying desulphurised steel, and a smaller one carrying the skimmed slage
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Steelmaking furnaces
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Torpedo truck pouring steel into ladle
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Pouring steel into the steelmaking ladle for oxygen blowing
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Carbon electrodes
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The water cooling unit for thin slab casting
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Thin slab casting in action
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Thin slab casting in action
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Diptak Bhattacharya, who kindly guided us through the new thin slab casting factory on the left, and Subradata
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Now with Harry
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Sequence of rolling mills
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Water cooling units for the steel as it exits the mills
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Coiling operations
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The first ever coil created at the plant








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