Mumbai: Pumps and industrial valves maker KSB Ltd India has bagged an order worth Rs 100 crore for the supply of slurry re-circulation pumps to be installed across 10 NTPC sites in the country. The deliveries of the pumps begin from this month and they will be installed in FGD units at power plants, which will have a total generation capacity of 166GW in the coming years, KSB Ltd India Managing Director Rajeev Jain said.
The Flue Gas Desulphurisation(FGD) unit is used to lower emissions of gases known to cause lung diseases.
Power plants were asked to install FGD units, which cut emissions of sulphur dioxides, in a phased manner. In all 440 coal-fired plants that produce 166.5 GW have to comply with the regulation by December 2020.
