The 500 MW coal-fired power plant (Unit-13) at Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station has seen the first carbon dioxide absorbed from the flue gas stream by NTPC Limited (VSTPS).
The daily carbon dioxide capture capacity of this unit is twenty tonnes. The spread of carbon dioxide capture technologies and the greening of coal-fired power generation will be made possible by this endeavour.
In the same location, NTPC is also building a green hydrogen generation facility that will produce two tonnes of hydrogen daily using proton exchange membrane electrolysers. Then, using a heterogeneous catalytic process, ten tonnes of green methanol per day will be produced from two tonnes of hydrogen per day and twenty tonnes of carbon dioxide extracted each day.
The NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA) planned, designed, engineered, and awarded the integrated carbon dioxide to methanol project, which was carried out by VSTPS Green Chemical Department in collaboration with NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA).
