The Natconn Blog

I’ve been off lately from this blog. Travel killed the hardhat star. I’d like to announce some changes. This blog is moving to Posterous. For agility sake. It’s mother of a job to carry your laptops  at places where they don’t even allow you to wear your own clothes. A upcoming shipyard at Dhabhol in our case.

We shall now be building ships. Hull to be more precise. Sort of a lateral entry for Natconn. But definitely not bad. Ship building is a sunrise sector ever since the japs and the koreans got too pricey. So that. Shall post more on that (with the pics).

Reliance Energy threw us an award. We shall now be building the Fly Ash Handling System for them at Dadri, Haryana. Another Fly Ash Handling System at Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Haryana. FYI this critical power unit is for Delhi 2010. Which means, somewhere we shall be part of the celebrations.

Our order book for FY09 is worth 30 crore plus. Not bad again :-)

PS: Project Photos….coming soon.

I haven’t added solo pictures of our ongoing projects lately. Though we did click some snaps with some NTPC biggies or babus. So stick around for that :)

This is the hydrostatic test or the water jacket test or simply hydrotesting. And Hydrostatic testing is a way in which a gas pressure vessel such as a gas cylinder or a boiler is checked for leaks or flaws. In our case a CW system or huge underground pipes. Using this test helps maintain safety standards and durability of a vessel over time. Testing is very important because such containers can explode if they fail when containing compressed gas or liquid.

That eases a lot of pressure at least from the client’s side.

The wind here makes more noise than the turbine. At times, so say the officials, that the wind reaches 10 meters per second enough to complain of a bad hair day. I am at this Wind Farm some 250 odd kilometers from Mumbai. And the only song that’s playing in my head right now is “Winds of Change” by the Scorpions. Welcome to Asia’s Biggest Wind Farm (come 2010). Welcome to Suzlon.

A traditional Gujrati boy getting into textiles is kinda understood in India. But a traditional Gujrati boy quitting textiles to buy wind turbines is very ungujrati so to speak. Not for Tulsi Tanti though. Which is why he made his billion by investing in 2005 way back in 1995.

And today hundreds of folks want to buy his turbines and help save the earth (pun intended) and yet make some money. So why not us?

Now this is our plan. Natconn will buy these giant machines for 9 crore each. And Mr. Tanti will install each one of them at his farms any where in the world and pay me for producing energy. A clean one. In fact, he will be responsible for the entire chain of things. Land, Transmission, Distribution, Maintenance and other blah blahs.

What next? I sign the PPA, which is the Power Purchase Agreement with Government through Suzlon and in turn the Government pays me a millions dollars (4 odd crore) for producing such a friendly stuff. For 20 years. That’s not bad socioeconomically. How about a new name for our power division? Like NATCONN POWER. Or Just WINERGY. We’ll be there my lovely. Soonest.

Stick around for some pictures though :)

We’re quoting a big one. As big as INR 500 Million. And we are almost through. You definitely need a rocket to get to the moon.

http://www.ecolect.net/

Another “green” link.

This ones for any one looking for a green collar job. As many as 16 power plants, operated by NTPC, one of the Navratna companies of India, are in “Red Alert” category for belching out the Carbon Dioxide in the country. And by statistics NTPC ranks 4th biggest carbon (read CO2) emitting company in the world. So says CARMA

In fact, NTPC Talcher in Orissa has the notoriety of emitting the biggest quantity of CO2. Phew.

On our wishlist is a Green Building. Just like these ones in India.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/top10_power_21stcentury-1.html

Good read this one

This time around we have our hands full with coal-fired plants. But we’d love to do supercritical stuff. It kinda looks great on the company’s CV. Today’s state-of-the-art, supercritical coal-fired power plants - the up and coming one in india - provide efficiencies that exceed 45 percent. This benefit will significantly increase the kWh produced per pound of coal burned, with fewer emissions. In addition to using less coal, lower emission levels for supercritical plants are achieved using well-proven emissions control technologies.

Watch this space incase we bag the CLP project. Say nee haOW, woh teh ming tsuh. That’s chinese for hello.

We are now rough and ready .Here goes the duct on 6th March. The CW duct.