NTPC on Thursday said the power producer along with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd have set up a pilot plant for bio-fixation of carbon dioxide at Faridabad power station.
“Two conjoining algae ponds of area have been constructed to draw carbon dioxide from stacks at the project. The inoculation in small pond was done earlier in the month and in bigger pond today to generate micro algae, which is ahead of the target schedule of January,” NTPC said in a statement.
This project is part of NTPC’s plan to meet environment challenges of by adopting latest environment practices and protection systems to minimise the impact of power generation on environment. Carbon dioxide is a major green house gas contributing to more than 50 per cent to the total predicted warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
“Around 12-15 per cent of the project cost is spent on various environment protection equipment,” the company said.
On February 2010, IOC’s research and development centre and NTPC signed an memorandum of understanding for research in this field with the setting up of algae ponds at NTPC gas project in Faridabad.
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