Under the terms of the €25m contract, the company will deliver the wet limestone based FGD system for the 1x500MW pulverized coal-fired boiler unit on full turnkey basis, including designing, engineering, manufacturing, testing, civil works, erection and commissioning.
Alstom India managing director and vice chairman Patrick Ledermann said the project will be a benchmark installation in India as the first full scope turnkey Lime Stone based FGD project in the country.
"The FGD will have SO2 removal efficiency of more than 90% which further reaffirms our commitment towards providing clean power solutions and our growing footprint in air quality control systems," Ledermann added.
Alstom’s FGD system is claimed to be an effective means of preventing atmospheric pollution and removing sulphur dioxide released from coal-fired power plants.
More than 360 FGD systems have been installed by Alstom for power plants in different parts of the world since 1968, corresponding to a total equivalent capacity of about 140GW of FGD.
