The Ramco Cements update on Waste Heat Recovery Plants; Stock dips 1%

26 Apr 2022 , 11:08 AM

The Ramco Cements Ltd updated to the exchanges on Waste Heat Recovery Plants of the company.

As per the filing, the Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) captures the waste heat available from the preheater exhaust gas and the clinker cooler exhaust gas of cement kilns and the said heat is used to generate electrical energy, by adopting technologies which are latest in the industry.

Further, it aaded that the industry has invested in the WHRS for power generation in all the three lines of its Jayanthipuram Plant. The last leg of the preheater was commissioned on 16-04-2022. With this, the WHRS has been fully commissioned at our Jayanthipuram plant. The capacity of WHRS at Jayanthipuram is 27 MW.

Further, “we are set to commission Company’s 5th integrated cement plant at Kolumigundla, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh together with 12.15 MW of WHRS. The overall capacity of Company’s WHRS will increase to 39.15 MW”, said Ramco Cements.

Inclusive of the wind energy being wheeled for the company’s production, we will be meeting 71% of power required for the clinker production through Green Energy, it further added.

At around 11:10 AM, The Ramco Cements was trading at Rs796.40 apiece down by Rs9.3 or 1.15% on the BSE.