NOIDA: In what could make a major difference to the management of urban solid waste, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is all set to implement a waste-to-energy technology that it has co-developed with a Chennai-based orthopedic surgeon. The \u201ctorrefied coal\u201d, made out of carbonised waste, will be used by NTPC in its power plants in Varanasi, Bhopal, Indore and Hubli for power generation, officials said.
\n\u201cThe idea is to carbonise solid waste in low oxygen conditions and convert the material into coal. Because there is no oxygen involved in the process, and the carbonisation is taking place with external heat \u2013 the conversion process is not toxic and the carbonised output is of usable quality for power plants,\u201d said Amit Kulsreshtha, NTPC\u2019s general manager-new initiatives.
\n\u201cAlso the product is cost-competitive and at times cheaper than the market price of regular coal that we buy to fuel our plants. The idea was germinated by Chennai-based inventor Dr SK Sivakumar, which we then co-developed,\u201d he said. The project is likely to take off in the next 7-8 months, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NOIDA: In what could make a major difference to the management of urban solid waste, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is all set to implement a waste-to-energy technology that it has co-developed with a Chennai-based orthopedic surgeon. The \u201ctorrefied coal\u201d, made out of carbonised waste, will be used by NTPC in its power plants in Varanasi, Bhopal, Indore and Hubli for power generation, officials said. \u201cThe idea is to carbonise solid waste in low oxygen conditions and convert the material into coal. Because there is no oxygen involved in the process, and the carbonisation is taking place with external heat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401868","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}