{"id":307485,"date":"2019-12-26T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307485"},"modified":"2019-12-27T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T05:51:48","slug":"bhel-commissions-indias-first-lignite-based-500-mw-thermal-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bhel-commissions-indias-first-lignite-based-500-mw-thermal-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"BHEL commissions India\u2019s first lignite-based 500 MW thermal unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Heavy Electricals ltd (BHEL) has commissioned the first lignite-based 500 MW thermal unit of the 2&#215;500 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>This is not only the country\u2019s first lignite-fired 500 MW power plant, but also its highest rated pulverised lignite-fired thermal unit commissioned so far.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is based on the Once-Through and Tower Type Boiler design, which has been adopted for the first time in the country for a lignite-based thermal unit, BHEL informed the BSE.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Cuddalore district, the project is owned by NLC India Ltd. The second unit of the project is also in an advanced stage of commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>NLC had placed the order for a Boiler, Turbine &amp; Generator (BTG) package for the two units with BHEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Heavy Electricals ltd (BHEL) has commissioned the first lignite-based 500 MW thermal unit of the 2&#215;500 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project in Tamil Nadu. This is not only the country\u2019s first lignite-fired 500 MW power plant, but also its highest rated pulverised lignite-fired thermal unit commissioned so far. The plant is based on the Once-Through and Tower Type Boiler design, which has been adopted for the first time in the country for a lignite-based thermal unit, BHEL informed the BSE. Located in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Cuddalore district, the project is owned by NLC India Ltd. The second unit of [&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-307485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307485","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=307485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}