Sci&Tech, Medical and Envirnoment:

250 MW CFBC boiler to go on stream at NLC this month

• Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) will commission its first unit of 250 MW lignite-powered CFBC (circulating fluidised bed combustion) boiler at Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) complex in Tamil Nadu

  • The second unit will become operational during April-May
• Technology for CFBC boilers operated with non-coal fuel options such as lignite, bagasse and straw was developed.

  • CFBC boilers have the advantage of fuel flexibility.
• After supplying 2 x 125 MW CFBC boilers for Surat lignite power project (SLPP) through technical collaboration with Germany-based AE&E Lentjes, BHEL installed on its own two other boilers of 125 MW capacity each for NLC's mine at Barsingsar in Rajastan.

  • In CFBC technology, India ranks next only to European countries such as Germany where boilers of 400 MW capacity have been developed.