PSEB to overhaul units to control pollution

The Tribune , Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Correspondent : SP Sharma/Tribune News Service
Bathinda, June 22

Faced with persistent criticism on the issue of air pollution being caused by its Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) here, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has finally woken from a deep slumber and decided to overhaul units 3 and 4 to control the flow of ash from its chimneys.

The GNDTP has become a major source of air pollution here for the past 35 years. Units 1 and 2 were renovated a few years ago, but pollution was continuing because of the two leftover units.

The Chief Engineer (thermal), GNDTP, said the renovation and modernisation (R and M) of unit 4 would be taken up in September and completed in nine months.

The work has been assigned to BHEL that will undertake R and M of unit 3, following stabilisation of unit 4. Thereafter, the ash pollution level of these units will also come within the prescribed limits.

He claimed that the suspended particular matter (SPM) level of all four units was mostly within the permissible limits prescribed by the Punjab Pollution Control Board.

The Chief Engineer said sometimes due to high percentage of ash in coal, the pollution level of units 3 and 4 tended to go beyond the prescribed norms, but concrete steps had always been made by the GNDTP to minimise the ash-pollution level.

He clarified that a cement manufacturer and brick-kilns lifted a part of the fly ash regularly as per the contract and rest of it was dumped in the ash slurry pond area in the thermal plant. No dry fly ash was given to anybody for dumping in public places, he claimed.

 
SOURCE : Tuesday, 23 June 2009
 


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