Global Technology Watch Group (GTWG) on Advanced Coal Technologies (ACT) for Power Generation
IRADe is a member of the Global Technology Watch Group, a consortia comprising of three IIT’s (Madras, Bombay and Delhi) for the continuous monitoring of the status of coal technologies in India and abroad, their evaluation for use in India, and to facilitate the development of a road map of Advanced Coal Technologies for Sustainable Power Generation.
Coal will be the fuel of the country for several more decades. The present coal technologies are of low efficiency and highly polluting. Highly efficient, eco-friendly, economically viable ACT need to be developed and deployed at the earliest. The existing non-technological barriers like isolated and fragmented research and development, lack of effective collaborative research and focused team work can be overcome by establishing a national ACT network which will bring together stakeholders from industry-academia-government-society to encourage, facilitate, catalyse and actuate purposeful sharing of knowledge and resources at national and international levels. This will help in creating a coal database, facilitate the development of a coal road map and culminate in the creation of a Global ACT Network, for the benefit of coal power generation in the country.
IRADe would critically examine the various technologies in power generation, beneficiation and mining and would develop a technology index based on multiple evaluation criteria such as capital cost, O&M cost, CO2 & other emissions, socio-economic and water food print evaluation.Some technologies that are already in various stages of development but yet to be evaluated are ultra super critical power plants and Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC). Technology literature reviews for coal power generation, sustainability assessment and have developed a draft matrix for sustainability analysis.
Under the project IRADe has participated in three meetings at IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi along with participation in many related workshops and conferences.
Supported by: Ministry of Science & Technology,
Department of Science & Technology, Government of India