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MINISTRY OF POWER
R&D is developing Fly-Ash based product for part
replacement of cement to be used for general building
construction by the common man. This will be a
better product having both early as well as long term
strength. This will greatly increase use of fly ash.
R&D has developed a cost effective Fly-ash based utensil
cleaning powder which is manly based on Satritha,
which is an organic product and thus user friendly.
R&D is working to develop a technique to detect online
turbine blade damage. BARC had developed the
technique of detecting online turbine shaft cracks.
R&D undertook a project of developing software for
both the techniques that would be installed at NTPC
Stations. R&D is entering into an MOU with BARC
for development of software for on line turbine blade
damage detection & shaft crack detection to reduce
the maintenance cost and prevent catastrophic
damage to turbo generator.
R&D has developed novel method for converting
straight vegetable oil (obtained by crushing seeds of
Jathropa plants) to Bio-Diesel which can be used by
villagers. This is going to be demonstrated to nearby
Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Project of NTPC
village panchayat in January 2006. This will be used
for power generation in remote villages.
In the changing paradigm in power sector and
NTPC’s quest to be a global energy major, Energy
Technologies (ET) center has been set up with a welldefined
mandate to develop and innovate cutting edge
technologies to meet the ever changing scenario.
The center will work in both fundamental and applied
fields with the ultimate objective of commercializing
the technologies both within and outside. Setting up
of this center by NTPC meets a long-term need of
such a center in the power sector in India. The NTPC
Board approved the formation of center in April 2004
with a mandate that it has to be a WORLD CLASS
research institute.
ET’s proposed organization structure enjoys a tripodal
model with Technology Development Division at the
center of a Tripod, supported by Engineering Specialist
Division, Research Centers and Special Analysis and
Computational Centre (SACC) forms the core of the
proposed ET center. The five destinations for power
sector viz. Reduction in cost of power, Achieving the