BHEL to be provider of clean coal technology

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Tiruchirapalli, Aug 13: The public sector giant, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has the potential to become a world leader and a technology provider in the field of Clean Coal Technology, BHEL Director (engineering, research and development) Ramji Rai said today.

Inaugurating a two-day workshop on 'Clean Coal Technology' at BHEL complex here, Mr Rai said the company could also become a nuclear or coal technology research centre and shape the future of coal technology in the world.

BHEL's growth would be technology driven, he observed.

Dwelling upon the strength of its decades-old coal research and expertise in the entire spectrum of Indian coals, he said BHEL could easily emerge as a technology provider by adopting a more proactive approach through its engineering and research and development (R&D) efforts towards the development of new product designs and product variants.

This was vital in today's context of an increasingly high rate of technological obsolescence which made extinction or replacement for many technologies, Mr Rai said.

Pointing out that current global trends in the capital equipment industry indicated a visible technological tilt towards Asia as India, China, Korea and Africa became major manufacturing hubs, he said no new technology could last for more than a few years.

Mr Rai said zero-emission-power plants would be a reality as even the emerging super critical boiler technology was already under threat from the ultra-super-critical technology on which R&D was carried out in many countries.

"BHEL is strong in coal gasification technology and underground coal gasification is essential, which has huge potential for the future in terms of environmental benefits", he said.

UNI

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