PART-1=> RTPS
Ok its been long since i posted anything here. Busy as usual. but i went on a trip recently that i had to share with you.This was basically an industrial visit to the Raichur Thermal Power Station(RTPS in short). for those who don’t know about, 40% of the daily power supply comes from here to Bangalore.Amazing place it was.
There were elaborate security measures of course . We waited a full half hour with all the security checks and handing over our cameras(Taking pictures inside were prohibited),so everything we saw was for EYES ONLY.But once inside, you were in a different world.
Starting with the coal unloading(forgot to tell you,its a coal fired plant).Here full train carriages filled with coal were over turned onto hoppers.the hydraulics were on a massive scale,they had to be, considering that they had to lift almost 300 tonnes of weight.We were covered in the soot of course once the coal was unloaded.
Then we went over to the crushers,furnaces and boilers which too were humongous . i think as big as olympic size swimming pools .Then we went on to the turbines and generators, there were 5 of them totally spread over a kilometre in length..im not kidding…and each unit had its own control centre . Only two units were in production when we went at the time…the reason for the load shedding in bangalore!!!
Then we got into our buses and went to the cooling towers,which according to me was the best part of the plant and certainly the most beautiful to look.There were 7 of them totally, we went into one of them and MEIN GOTT!!!! it was like a sauna on biblical proportions!!!! i would call it a mechanical wonder.
cooling towers
Then of course we got back into our buses and proceeded to have lunch,for which we waited a full hour and a half.we got back to our hotel and once there we let the bubbly flow(if you know what i mean).thats a whole other episode that im still deciding if i should share with you.maybe before my next post i would have made a decision.
So next day ,after a few minutes of picture taking in front of the buses we departed to Hampi.
