Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station () is a power plant situated near newport of
Thoothukudi
Thoothukudi (formerly called Tuticorin) is a port city, port industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The city is capital and headquarters of the di ...
in
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...
, India, on the sea shore of
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region.
Many South Asian and Southe ...
.
It has 5 units with a total installed capacity of 1,050
MW and spread over . All the unit are
coal based. Coal is transported by sea through ship from
Haldia
Haldia () is an industrial port city in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has a major river port and industrial belt located approximately southwest of Kolkata near the mouth of the Hooghly River, one of the d ...
,
Paradeep
Paradeep, also spelled Paradip (originally Paradweep, also spelled Paradwip), is a major industrial seaport town and municipality, nearly 80 km from Cuttack city, in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, India. Paradeep was constituted as an NAC o ...
, Vizag Port to TTPS.
Coal transported by ship is given to crushers which crush the coal particles to 10-20mm in diameter. The crushed coal is fed to coal grinding mills with bowl roller via coal bunkers. The powdered coal is given to pulverisers and to furnace through forced draft fans. There are four mills around the furnace as well as oil injecting nozzles from oil storage for tangential firing.
See also
*
Energy in India
References
External links
* http://www.infraline.com/power/State/Tamilnadu/TuticorinTPS.aspx
* http://www.tangedco.gov.in/linkpdf/tttps.pdf
Coal-fired power stations in Tamil Nadu
Buildings and structures in Thoothukudi district
1979 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Energy infrastructure completed in 1979
20th-century architecture in India
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