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Energy-Environment Harmony, Strengthening the
Power Delivery Infrastructure, Enabling Digital Society
and Managing Global Sustainability will be realized
through this center.
Energy Technologies targets to focus on setting up
Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and indigenisation
of technologies. Developing technologies through
collaborative research with best of the R&D and
academic institutions in India and subsequently it will
be extended to other global leading institutions. The
institutions where collaborative research work is being
conducted are National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)
Pune, Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) Pune, IIT
Mumbai, University Institute of Chemical Technology
(UICT) Mumbai, Central Salt & Marine Chemicals
Research Institute (CSMCRI) Bhavnagar and National
Environmental Engineering Research Institute
(NEERI) Nagpur. The research areas include Artificial
Neural Network based optimization, Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of boiler and cooling
tower, Multi-composition Ammonia Liquor Absorption
Engine (MALAE) cycle, Carbon Sequestration etc.
Under this collaborative arrangement total 12 projects
are identified to be completed in a time span of 18
to 48 months. Further, India along with 12 other
countries (now 21) is a founder member of “Carbon
sequestration Leadership forum” (CSLF).
Around 75 Acres of land has been acquired at Greater
Noida for the construction of ET Building.
15.0 TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION : Capacity addition of
over 1,50,000 MW is envisaged in the country during
the XI and XII Plan periods. More than two third of
this capacity addition is expected from thermal power
stations. Amongst several factors affecting pace of
capacity addition, unit size is considered to be very
important. With this in view, adopting higher unit sizes
in the country was considered for accelerating pace
of capacity addition as required. The first beginning in
this regard has already been made by NTPC by going
in for 660 MW size units in Sipat-l and Barh projects to
be followed by North Karanpura.
However, to decide on still higher size of thermal units,
NTPC has examined the following aspects :
• Technologies available worldwide, their maturity
levels and availability of technologies for adoption in
India.
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• Status of technology availability with BHEL for
implementation in Indian context.
• Strategy for induction of higher size units in
association with BHEL including transfer of
technology.
• Efficiency and other benefits, likely project
cost, techno-economic analysis vis-a-vis other
options.
NTPC is of the opinion that 800 MW unit size which
is considered to be an ultimate size for Indian coal
can be adopted. However, International Consultant’s
assistance would be required in technology scan,
carrying out the basic engineering including
preparation of RDM, Techno-economics and
finalization of the steam parameters, equipment
sizing, interface parameters and review of technical
specifications.
16.0 ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT : NTPC with the
goal of achieving sustainable development of the
power sector in the country has taken a number
of dedicated and growth oriented measures for
Environment Management in its various business
units. It is actively pursuing the Charter on Corporate
Responsibility for Environmental Protection (CREP)
released by Ministry of Environment and Forests for
various industries including Thermal Power Plants.
A number of measures have been taken for further
improving performance of stations especially in the
areas of stack emissions and effluents discharged.
To further enhance the performance of Electro
Static Precipitators (ESPs) in order to maintain stack
particulate emissions within the stipulated limits on
sustained basis, trial study is being conducted in one
Unit at NTPC - Farakka by conditioning flue gas with
Ammonia. Its long-term effects are being studied in
the Unit for evaluating the efficacy of the technology
to maintain low emissions in the Indian context.
As a proactive measure, in a number of stations
recycling/reuse systems have been installed and
commissioned to conserve water. Ash Water
recycling system has been installed & commissioned
at Ramagundam, Simhadri, Rihand, Talcher Kaniha,
Talcher Thermal, Kahalgaon, Korba and Vindhyachal.
Also, Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) has been installed
& commissioned at Ramagundam, Kahalgaon,
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