Coal gasification projects: BHEL sign MoU with NLCIL and CIL
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has signed an MoU with Coal India Limited (CIL) and NLC India Limited (NLCIL) for utilizing the country’s vast reserves of coal & lignite. As per the MoU, the firms would be setting up Coal Gasification based plants.
A press release said that BHEL will jointly set up a Coal to Ammonium Nitrate Project with CIL based on the gasification of high ash Indian coal, and a lignite-based gasification pilot plant with NLCIL for power generation, utilizing BHEL’s indigenously-developed Pressurised Fluidised Bed Gasification (PFBG) technology.
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