Optimisation of the Kayamkulam Terminal

Master thesis (1996)
Copyright: © 1996 Mutsaers, J.F.P.
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01-03-1996

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Abstract

The growth of the population of India has caused an electricity shortage on India's west coast. As a result of this shortage the Indian government has decided to commission the building of several new power plants along India's west coast, one of these power plants is located near Kayamkulam in the state of Kerala. The Kayamkulam powerplant is a coal fired thermal powerplant. The coal needed to fuel the powerplant is not found in the Kayamkulam region, therefore the Indian government has decided to use coal that is found in the north-eastern region of the country, in the Talcher mines. From these mines the coal is transported to the Paradip port, that is located on the north-eastern shores of India. The next stage in this coal transport chain is the transport by coal-carriers from Paradip to Kayamkulam. Once the coal is delivered at Kayamkulam it is stored in a stockyard where it awaits consumption by the powerplant. As a result of the co-financing of this project by the Dutch government, Fr. R. Harris BV, together with among others Tebodin and Delft Hydraulics, has already designed a medium-offshore coal unloading terminal at Kayamkulam.