Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station ( ta, தூத்துக்குடி அனல் மின் நிலையம் ) is a power plant situated near newport of
Thoothukudi
Thoothukudi (formerly Tuticorin) is a port city, a municipal corporation and an industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The city lies in the Coromandel Coast of Bay of Bengal. Thoothukudi is the capital and he ...
in
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is 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 India ...
, India, on the sea shore of
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...
.
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, Paradeep, 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.
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
Thoothukudi district
1979 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Energy infrastructure completed in 1979
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