New Delhi: GE Power has won an order worth over Rs 25 crore from Vedanta Limited for modification of a boiler at the latter’s Lanjigarh CGPP for NOx reduction, the company told the bourses on Tuesday. It said that it has won a “NOX Reduction order at Vedanta Limited’s Lanjigarh CGPP unit 3 x 30 MW” for “Combustion Modification of Boiler.” The order will have to be executed within 14 months.
Vedanta Limited operates a 2 MTPA (million tonnes per annum) alumina refinery in Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of Odisha since 2007. The CGPP is an associated 90 MW captive power plant at Lanjigarh, which was commissioned in 2008. The refinery feeds Vedanta’s aluminium smelters at Jharsuguda in Odisha and at BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh.
NOx is a family of poisonous, highly reactive Nitrogen Oxide gases. These gases are formed when fuel is burned at high temperatures. In order to reduce the emission of these gases into the atmosphere, NOx abatement technologies like low-NOx burning, flue gas treatment, overfire air combustion modification, etc, are used by power producers.