CONTINUED FROM PAGE -5. TOPIC LAND FOR THERMAL POWER STATION.

In my earlier discussion it was mentioned  about the situation and preliminary boundary conditions prevailed in INDIA about LAND for thermal plant. Now a days land acquisition has become a serious businees and can be bone of contention between political parties . Sometimes it has been observed that ruling GOVT lost its election due to this. Therefore Government at centre has become very wise and they have set up different committes to limit the requirement of land as per technolodgy , as per coal ( Indian or imported ) , Size of units , Configeration of units  etc. A birds eye view will now be written for construction personnel for their knowledge for setting up a power station.

Expert commitee of GOI consist of GOVT representative of Power field , Power plant equipment manufacturer , Power plant electricity producers etc.  The size of units firing Indian coal comparitively bigger than firing Imported coal. It is seen that coal requirement is double than the imported coal and the ash generation is eight times more than the imported coal. This is because the gross calirofic value of Indian coal used for power station is 3000 to 4000 kcal/kg with ash contain is as high as 35- 45% where as the imported coal from Indonesia ,austrelia , south africa etc having Gross Calirofic value of 6000kcal/kg with ash content < or equal to 10%. Due to this the size of unit with indian coal will be bigger because more amount of coal is requried to be burnt for same power output. Therefore it can be concluded that type coal is to be decided before we decide for the land. Coal can be indenigous /indian /blending of both to get the required value.

standard land requrement will be given in my next post  having classification on unit size and also type of coal to be used.
contd to pg 7