GEI Industrial Systems has bagged an EPC order from NPCIL.

The order worth Rs 37 crore is for heavy water upgrading plant and waste management plant for 2 x 700 MW PHWR type Rajasthan atomic power project-7&8. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, supply, site construction and erection and commissioning of variety of equipment like distillation columns (around 1 meter diameter x 52 meter height), tanks and vessels including large diameter dyke tanks, canned pumps, heat exchangers, ion exchangers, de-contamination & laundry equipment, lead shielded doors, cranes & hoists, valves, pipes & pipe-fittings, instruments and other miscellaneous items.

The waste management plant is meant for processing liquid and solid nuclear waste generated by the nuclear power stations before their final disposal to environment / permanent storage. Heavy water upgrading plant is meant for upgrading the downgraded heavy water generated in the nuclear power plant through system leakages, spillage, etc to reactor grade and re-use the upgraded heavy water back into the systems.

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