| Nearest
railway stations |
Durgapur
Waria |
| Distance
by road |
| 5
KM. from Durgapur City |
| Nearest
Airports |
| Kolkata |
|
Durgapur Thermal
Power Station (DTPS) |
|
Located in Burdwan district of West Bengal, DTPS
was set up in the sixties of last
century with two 75 MW units and one
140 MW unit in the first stage. Another
210 MW unit was added to the plant
in the early eighties to augment supplies
to the growing industrial demand.
The first 2 units of the Station had
to be de-commissioned after a fire
accident in 1985. |
Details
of DTPS Generating Units
|
Gen. Unit |
Name of Manufacturers |
Original capacity (MW) |
Present capacity (MW) |
Year of commissioning |
Special features |
|
Boiler |
TG |
|
1 |
.. |
.. |
75 |
Decommissioned
in 1985 |
|
2 |
.. |
.. |
75 |
Decommissioned
in 1985 |
|
3 |
ABL |
GE |
140 |
140 |
Dec.,
1966 |
Three
stage turbine |
|
4 |
BHEL |
BHEL |
210 |
210 |
Sept.,
1982 |
Fly
ash controlled by EP
CW
through CT pond |
|
|
|
