Sual Power plant’s emissions assured not harmful, says exec
AN OFFICIAL of the coal-fired Sual Power Plant have given assurance that the facility’s gas emission and waste water are not harmful to the environment.
All emissions from the plant are filtered and treated before they are released or disposed, said Training Manager Nicanor Ramos Jr. of TeaM Energy (Tokyo Electric Power Company and Marubeni Corporation), which manages power plant.
Ramos acknowledged that there are numerous environmental concerns involved in the operation of the plant but the management addresses them well.
“We have never received a negative citation from the DENR [Department of Environment and Natural Resources],” he said during the KBP Forum.
He said the wastewater undergoes two phases of treatment and is sampled before being discharged to the sea, he said, adding that part of the wastewater is also used to irrigate the vegetation within the power plant compound.
Burnt coal, meanwhile, produces bottom and fly ashes as by-products.
Bottom ashes, which accumulate below the boiler, are directly stored into the 140-hectare ash disposal area.
Fly ashes, meanwhile, are extracted from smoke thru an electrostatic precipitator before it comes out of the chimney.
The smoke, he said, contains nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide (known air pollutants) but they are within the limits set by the DENR, he assured.
The Sual Power Plant, the country’s biggest coal-fired power plant, generates about 1,200 megawatts of power, equivalent to 20 percent of the total demand of the Luzon power grid, he said. (PIA-Pangasinan/ARF)
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