Tuticorin Thermal Power Station


Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station is a power plant situated near newport of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, on the sea shore of Bay of Bengal.
It has 5 units with a total installed capacity of 1,050 MW and spread over. All the unit are coal based. Coal is transported by sea through ship from Haldia, Paradeep, Vizag Port to TTPS.
Coal transported by ship is given to crushers which crush the coal particles to 10-20mm in diameter. The crushed coal is fed to coal grinding mills with bowl roller via coal bunkers. The powdered coal is given to pulverisers and to furnace through forced draft fans. There are four mills around the furnace as well as oil injecting nozzles from oil storage for tangential firing.