BHEL Signs MoU with CIL & NLCIL for Coal gasification business
This will be a breakthrough step towards meeting the National Coal Gasification Mission target of 100 Million MT.
New Delhi: Aimed at gainfully utilising the country’s vast reserves of coal & lignite, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has entered into strategic MoUs with Coal India Limited (CIL) and NLC India Limited (NLCIL) for setting up Coal Gasification based plants.
Under these MoUs, BHEL will jointly set up a Coal to Ammonium Nitrate Project with CIL based on gasification of high ash Indian coal, and a lignite-based gasification pilot plant with NLCIL for power generation, utilising BHEL’s indigenously-developed Pressurised Fluidised Bed Gasification (PFBG) technology. Significantly, this will be a breakthrough step towards meeting the National Coal Gasification Mission target of 100 Million MT.
The MoUs were signed in the august presence of Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon’ble Minister of Heavy Industries and Sh. Pralhad Joshi, Hon’ble Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mines & Coal and Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member, Niti Aayog. Sh. Upinder Singh Matharu, Director (Power) & Director (HR) – Addl. Charge, BHEL, signed the MoUs with Sh. Debasish Nanda, Director (Business Development), CIL and Sh. K. Mohan Reddy, Director (Planning & Projects), NLCIL. Sh Arun Goel, Secretary (Heavy Industries), Dr. Anil Kumar Jain, Secretary (Coal), Dr. Nalin Shinghal, CMD, BHEL, Sh. Pramod Agrawal, CMD, CIL, Sh. Rakesh Kumar, CMD, NLCIL and other senior officials of the Ministries as well as concerned PSUs were also present during this ceremony
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