Luxor Energy Private Limited (LEPL)

Technical Details

1.	Project	Coal based supercritical power plant, KIADB Industrial Area, Mulwad , Basavana Bagewadi Taluk, Bijapur district, Karnataka.
2.	Plant capacity	1320 MW
3.	Plant configuration	2 units of 660 MW each
4.	Location details
	Name of the villages	Mulvad
	Latitude	160 33’ 16.03” N
	Longitude	750 43’ 44.52” E
	Height above MSL	588 m
	Seismic zone	Zone-II as per 1893 (part-I) 2002
	Distance from Basavanabagewadi town	18.5 km
	Distance from National highway No218	0.5 km
	Distance from state highway No	15.0 km
	Distance from nearest Railway station Mulvad (Hubli-Bijapur)	5.0 km
	Distance from nearest Airport Hubli	165 km
	Distance from nearest sea port GOA	460 km
5.	Climatological data
	Annual max. mean temp.	32.9 0C
	Annual min. mean temp.	20.6 0C
	Extreme Highest temp.	44.9 0C
	Extreme Lowest temp.	06.7 0C
	Relative Humidity Max. Min.	85% 28%
	Average Annual Rainfall	671.6 mm
	Heaviest Rainfall in 24 hours	181.1 mm
	No. of Rainy days in a year	40.5
	Highest monthly mean of wind speed	18.4 km/h
	Lowest monthly mean of wind speed	03.8 km/h
	Max. wind speed	61.0 km/h
	Design ambient temperature	50 0C
6.	Land	Area in acres
	Power plant	270.00
	Coal Handling plant marshalling yard	130.00
	Water reservoir(15 days)	44.00
	Green belt	226.00
	Emergency Ash Dyke (MOEF Notification dt. 3.11.09)	220.00
	Corridors for Railway line Water pipe line	10.00
	Total area in acres	900.00
7.	Water
	Source of water	Krishna River - 16 km
	Water requirement	4,430 m3/hr
8.	Fuel
	a. Primary fuel	Coal
	Blending ratio	Indigenous - 70% Imported - 30%
	Source	Indigenous-CIL/coal blocks Imported- S.A/Indonesia/ Australia
	Indigenous coal GCV	3500 k.cal/kg
	Imported coal GCV	5100 k.cal/kg
	Annual coal requirement (with average GCV of coal as 3980 k.cal/kg & Station Heat Rate @ 2380 k.cal/kwh)	1) 5.92 Million M.T - @ 85% PLF 2) 6.92 Million M.T - @ 100% PLF
	b. Secondary fuel	HFO/LDO
	Source	From nearest refinery/oil depots
	Secondary fuel requirement	9,900 KL/ year
9.	Steam Turbine Generator	The steam Turbine will be single shaft, multi cylinders, tandem compound single reheat, regenerative, condensing unit directly coupled to AC Generator giving a continuous rated output at generator terminal.
10.	Steam Generator	Steam Generator will be super-critical pressure balanced draft furnace, single reheat, radiant, dry bottom type, sliding pressure operating, suitable for outdoor installation designed for firing pulverized coal as main fuel.
11.	Cooling system	Closed cycle cooling system using natural Draft cooling tower
12.	Chimney	One 275 meter high twin flue RCC Stack
13.	Station operation philosophy	Base Load
14.	Power Evacuation	400 KV System for feeding to PGCIL grid.
15.	Ash
	Generation	2.01 M.MT
	Utilization	Cement industries/SSI

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