  The evolution and production of strangeness from chemically equilibrating and
transversely expanding quark gluon plasma which may be formed in the wake of
relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied with initial conditions obtained
from the Self Screened Parton Cascade (SSPC) model. The extent of partonic
equilibration increases almost linearly with the square of the initial energy
density, which can then be scaled with number of participants.
