{"id":282886,"date":"2019-07-17T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282886"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:37:04","slug":"ntpcs-pollution-control-plans-gather-pace-entail-huge-capital-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpcs-pollution-control-plans-gather-pace-entail-huge-capital-expenditure\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC\u2019s pollution-control plans gather pace, entail huge capital expenditure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power sector giant NTPC\u2019s plans to install emission-control equipment at its 38 power plants (with combined capacity of 65,350 MW) could take up to four years to materialise, with an average expenditure of Rs. 50-70 lakh per MW, senior company officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Though the capital outlay is huge from NTPC\u2019s perspective, it also represents a good opportunity for pollution-control equipment suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the adoption of flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology-based equipment, which controls pollution, is at various stages within the NTPC group. Once installed, the FGD unit will facilitate 100 per cent flue-gas treatment, limiting the sulphur content to a maximum of 0.49 per cent in the flared gases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power sector giant NTPC\u2019s plans to install emission-control equipment at its 38 power plants (with combined capacity of 65,350 MW) could take up to four years to materialise, with an average expenditure of Rs. 50-70 lakh per MW, senior company officials said. Though the capital outlay is huge from NTPC\u2019s perspective, it also represents a good opportunity for pollution-control equipment suppliers. At present, the adoption of flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology-based equipment, which controls pollution, is at various stages within the NTPC group. Once installed, the FGD unit will facilitate 100 per cent flue-gas treatment, limiting the sulphur content to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}