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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The industry is a large scale red category unit engaged in production of electricity through Co-generation power plant from biomass produced from Sugar Mill and was earlier issued show cause with hearing before Chairman of the Board on 04/10/2022 in which it was decided that:-</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The industry shall submit the name of the bailers/rakers alongwith their contact numbers to whom the paddy is given by the industry within 15-days.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The industry shall remove all the shortcomings as observed during the visit on 28.6.22 and make 100% compliance before the commissioning of the unit in November 2022.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Environmental Engineer Regional Office, Hoshiarpur shall visit the industry and submit the compliance alongwith recommendations in the matter within 2 months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, the industry has applied for 'consent to operate' under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981. The industry was visited on 19.12.2022 and reported that the industry has not renewed its said bank guarantee of Rs. 3.0 lacs expired on 14.10.2020. The industry has installed a boiler furnace producing steam @ 70 TPH and is using Bio-fuel @ 28 TPH to produce power @ 15 MWh with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ESP followed by a wet scrubber is installed as APCD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bio-mass storage area is uncovered. The transfer points of bio-mass conveying system are not covered properly. Some of transfer points are covered with tarpuline sheet instead of providing a proper shed/ fixed enclosure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bio-mass fuel charging area at the ground is full of fugitive emissions. No hood system with suction facility / APCD is provided for collection / treatment of emissions being generated from bio-mass handling system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the floors under bio-fuel feeding point in the boiler furnace are covered with spillages of fuel which becomes air-borne during wind flow and during its cleaning. The Slot Chain Area (Main feeding chain of bio-mass) is required to be modernize for proper feeding of bio-mass to the boiler furnace without spillages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The record of paddy management wrt name of bailers / rakers has not been supplied. The record of hazardous waste is not maintained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In view of above, if approved, notice u/s 31 A of Air Act, 1981 alongwith SCN for refusal of consent under the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 may be issued to industry with hearing before Chairman of the Board please.</p> |
