METTUR THERMAL POWER

STATION
WELCOMES
Salient Features of Mettur TPS.
1.Location : Mettur Dam,
Salem Dt.
2.Installed capacity : 4 x 210 MW
3.Generation Per day : 20.16 MU
4.Area of the
main Plant : 359.30 Acres
5. Ash dyke
Upper ash dyke : 487 acres
Lower ash dyke : 781 acres
6. Coal Required : 14,000 MT per day
7. Ash Generated : 5,000 MT per day
Dry Ash collected : 3,000 MT per day
Wet Ash : 2,000 MT per day
Initially Ash ponds were designed to dump all the
ash generated,collected and pumped into dyke.
In nineties fine fly ash was collected from ESP
hoppers and bagged to cement companies and the
utilisation was 50,000 MT per annum.
.
In the year 2000, Mettur TPS has
constructed 4 Numbers of silos of capacity
250 tonnes each for collection of dry fly
ash using PDFACS by M/s. ABB Ltd. The
utilisation of ash has substantially increased
to 1 million tonnes from 0.25 million
tonnes
Implementation of the provisions
of Fly ash Notification.
Mettur TPS is implementing an action plan to
achieve 100% ash utilization level before 2015
as furnished by regulatory authorities. Annual
implementation report providing information
about the compliance of provisions as per fly
ash notification is furnished to the Pollution
Control Board. Mettur TPS has taken following
steps to improve the fly ash utilization.
TNEB has signed MOU with Cement
Companies to build and operate the
PDFACS in all the 4 units on BOLT
System utilising the technology from
M/s. Mecabar Beekay, New Delhi.
Silo capacity: Unit - I 1000 T + 300 T
Unit - II 1000 T
Unit - III 500 T
Unit - IV 1000 T
Mettur TPS had set up fly ash brick
manufacturing unit and fly ash bricks are used for
its own construction activities, other nearby
circles of TNEB and issued to other Government
Departments. So far about 55 lakhs of fly ash
bricks were manufactured.
To encourage the utilization of ash in
agricultural and forest sector, a study has
been entrusted to the Institute of forest
Genetics and tree breeding, Coimbatore for
development of plant species with blending
of fly ash with natural earth at a cost of
Rs. 2.00 Lakh for Mettur TPS.
Based on the experience, a trial forestation
was carriedout at about 5 acres at the lower
ash dyke and the growth of the plants are
good.
Mettur TPS / TNEB had also allocated
separate budget provision for display of
slogans/permanent posters on the utilization
of fly ash and its products in public places
and also showing slides in cinema theatres
and cable TV net work under proactive
programme.
A Symposium was conducted on
25.6.2004 to create awareness of fly ash
utilization. The Brick manufacturers are
personally contacted and informed on fly
ash brick usage and the symposium was
well attended.

A dispute settlement committee had been

constituted and is regularly convened once
in two months to resolve disputes in
issuance of ash to the users.

District level implementaion

committee
The committee has District Collector as
Chairman, Chief Engineer / Mettur TPS as
convenor, District Environmental Engineer,
Executive Engineer / PWD, Divisional
Engineer / Highways, Asst. Director /
Geology & Mining and Joint Director /
Industries Dept. as members.
The function of the committee is to work
out the mechanism to gainfully utilise the
huge quantity of fly ash being generated in
Thermal Power Station in a time bound
manner.
TNEB officials are sent to other Thermal
Stations to understand more on the use of
fly ash and implementation.
High volume fly ash concrete is being
used for pavements, Roads etc., in Mettur
Thermal Power Station.
Thrust areas of ash utilisation
Dry & Wet Ash is being issued to Cement
Companies, AC sheet companies, Ready
Mix companies, Brick Industries, Highways
Road Embankments and other Govt.
Agencies like PWD, Housing Board,
Agriculture Dept etc.,
Transportation System:
Mettur TPS has suggested the
transporters to use Bowsers and
Bulkers of higher capacity instead of
tippers to improve mass transportation
and to avoid pollution.
The roads and the bunds in the ash
dyke area has been strengthened and
widened for free movement of lorries
loaded with wet ash.
.
Every care has been taken to avoid pollution
and fugitive dust emmission emnating from
lorries enroute to cement companies and
other utilities
Policies for increasing ash utilisation.
Dry fly ash is lifted by the companies
round the clock at MTPS.
Wet ash is lifted from 07.00 hours to
20.00 hours due to security reasons.
.
.
Allotment of wet ash and dry fly
ash to clay bricks manufactures is
made by Chief Engineer / MTPS.
Allotment of dry fly ash to other
industries is made by Chief
Enginer ./ Civil Designs / TNEB /
Chennai.
.
The weighment for regular lorries
has been fixed on lumpsum basis
based on random weight
measurement. This enables speedy
movement of vehicles by avoiding
unnecessary repeated weighments.
Dry & Wet ash is being issued to
the Small Scale Industries at free
of cost
About 20% of dry fly ash
collectted from the silo allottee
cement companies is issued to the
Brick industries and other utilities
to increase the ash utilisation.
Medals and Awards
Mettur Thermal Power Station is the front
runner power station of TAMILNADU
ELECTRICITY BOARD certified for ISO : 9001 :
2000, the station has been setting benchmarks
in power generation, bagging the meritorious
productivity awards for excellence in power
generation year after year.
Mettur Thermal Power Station has bagged
2
nd
Prize at National level towards
Maximum ash utilization Jointly awarded
by Ministry of Power, Ministry of
Environment & Forests and department of
Science and Technology / Government of
India.
Commendable Achievement
Mettur TPS has exceeded the target
fixed in action plan for ash utilization in
the last six years. The actual ash
utilization is 98.26 % in 2007-2008 as
against the target of 85 % in the
action plan.
Mettur Thermal Power Station has achieved
116.65 % of utilisation as on 30.09.2008
for the year 2008 - 2009 against the target
of 88 % in action plan without incurring
any expenditure for METTUR T P S.
UTILISATION 2007 - 2008
88015
939036
642621
BRICK(Dry)
CEMENT (Dry)
WET(Cement & Brick)
Utilisation
Utilisation
Before Action Plan
Before Action Plan
1.2
1.24
1.71
1.82
1.88
1.62
1.35
1.8
1.75
3%
7% 6.40% 6.80%
8%
10%
11.80%
10.30%
15%
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
90-91 91-92 92-93 93-94 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99
Ash Generated
Ash Utilised
After Action Plan
52.22%
45.29%
65.95%
82.10%
20% 20%
35%
41%
48%
77%
51.34%
85.00%
40.24%
54.79%
98.26%
57%
64%
85%
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
99-00 00-01 01-'02 02-'03 03-'04 04-'05 05-'06 06-'07 07-'08
Ash Generated
Ash Utilised %
Action Plan %
Conclusion
The great challenge standing before us in
thermal power stations is the disposal of fly
ash and wet ash.
Increased the utilisation of fly ash will
certainly benefit the Power Indusrtry and
Small Scale Industries. Thereby the same
so-called waste ash is better utilised for the
development and the economy of the Nation
in a constructive way.
Waste ash G R E Y G O L D.
THANK YOU.