Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on Thursday said it has sealed a license agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. This would help the public sector equipment maker to improve environment friendliness norms in its products.
“BHEL has geared up for the manufacture and supply of state-of-the-art pollution control equipment to meet the emerging requirement of thermal power plants,” it said in a statement.
Through this agreement, BHEL would procure Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) system. The technology helps remove sulphur dioxide from flue gas.
The FGD systems will be engineered and manufactured at the Ranipet unit of BHEL in Tamil Nadu.
BHEL has proactively taken this initiative with respect to the air pollution control market in India. With the growing concern for environmental pollution in the country, Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, is expected to stipulate stringent control regulations towards sulphur dioxide emissions for power plants.
The Central Electricity Authority has already advised power project developers that for all new power plants, provision of space for FGD plants has to be included and in future, these power plants would be required to install FGD systems.