MoU Signed
Manoj Kumar (right), Associate Director of Heavy Water Board, Department of Atomic Energy, exchanging an MoU with P.Ponram, Chairman of Unicon Engineering, in Coimbatore on Monday. Coimbatore-based engineering firm Unicorn Engineering signed here on Monday a memorandum of understanding with the Heavy Water Board of the Department of Atomic Energy on ammonia flue gas condition technology that helped in reducing the suspended particulate matter in emissions. Through this pact, the company would acquire from the board the technology required to treat processed gas emitted from coal-fired boilers. Chief Executive Officer of the company P. Ponram and Associate Director of the Board Manoj Kumar signed the MoU in the presence of Collector P. Umanath. Appreciating the company’s initiative to acquire a technology needed to check pollution, Mr. Umanath said that not only the big industrial units but smaller ones also should go in for such measures.
Mr. Ponram explained how the technology would help in reducing pollution and Mr. Manoj Kumar listed the tasks of the Heavy Water Board. Explaining the technology, the company said in a release that coal was a major source of power generation in the country. Flue gas was generated and let into the atmosphere while firing the coal in the boilers. Dust particles and green house gases that posed health hazards were also let into the atmosphere along with flue gas. The new technology kept the emissions under control and helped in meeting the pollution control board norms.
