Green coal plant commissioned by NTPC at Varanasi
India's Largest Power Utility NTPC has commissioned a first-of-its-kind commercial green coal project in Varanasi. The plant will make torrefied charcoal from municipal waste. NTPC had planned to make green coal (torrefied charcoal) from municipal waste. The total capacity of this plant after installation of all three modules shall be 600 TPD of waste handling capacity.
NTPC's arm NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVNL) had awarded the project on an EPC (engineering procurement construction) basis to Macawber Beekay, and recently the first reactor module of 200 tonnes per day (TPD) capacity green coal plant was installed and commissioned.
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