Government inaugurates India’s first coal to methanol plant built by BHEL

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• M. N. Pandey dedicated BHEL’s indigenously-developed, India’s first Coal to Methanol Pilot Plant to the Nation as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

About India’s first Coal to Methanol plant

• Union Minister for Heavy Industries Mahendra Nath Pandey recently dedicated India’s first BHEL-built ‘coal to methanol’ (CTM) pilot plant to the nation, as part of the ongoing ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations.
• Pandey also inaugurated an exhibition on Products Developed under Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ organised at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited’s (BHEL) Hyderabad unit.
• Pandey further said the capital goods industry is the backbone of the manufacturing sector as it provides critical inputs such as machinery and equipment to a broad set of user-industries.
• The 0.25 TPD (tonnes per day) capacity CTM pilot plant that has been indigenously designed, developed and installed by BHEL is currently producing methanol with purity of more than 99 per cent from high-ash Indian coal.