GE Power completes NTPC's first WFGD unit at Vindhyachal plant

GE Power today announced the completion of first turnkey full flow wet flue gas desulphurization (WFGD) unit at state power giant NTPC's 500 MW Super Thermal Power project site in Vindhyachal, Madhya Pradesh.

The FGD installation at Vindhyachal is the first limestone-based WFGD commissioned in an NTPC power plant suitable for continuous operation at 500 MW unit for 100 per cent gas flow, a GE Power statement said.

The GE's scope of work in the project includes delivery of the WFGD system for the 1x500 MW pulverized coal-fired boiler unit on full turnkey basis, including designing, engineering, manufacturing, testing, civil works, erection and commissioning.

This is a key step towards implementing SOx control systems mandated by India's Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to reduce the emissions of thermal power plants.

Andrew DeLeone, Managing Director GE Power India Limited, said, "World over, the economics of power generation have become tighter and regulations have become even stricter."