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Heavy Water Plants

Sr. No	Heavy Water Plant Location	Process	Date of commissioning
1.	Nangal, Punjab (#)	Hydrogen Liquification and Distillation	Aug, 1962
2.	Baroda, Gujarat (*)	Monothermal Ammonia-Hydrogen Exchange	July, 1977
3.	Tuticorin, Tamilnadu	Monothermal Ammonia-Hydrogen Exchange	July,1978
4.	Talcher, Orissa (**)	Bi-thermal Ammonia - Hydrogen Exchange	March, 1978
5.	Kota, Rajasthan	Hydrogen Sulphide - Water Exchange	April, 1985
6.	Thal, Maharashtra	Monothermal Ammonia - Hydrogen Exchange	February, 1987
7.	Hazira, Gujarat	Monothermal Ammonia - Hydrogen Exchange	February, 1991
8.	Manuguru, Andhra Pradesh	Hydrogen Sulphide Water Exchange	December, 1991

(#)	HWP (Nangal): The Heavy Water Plant, Nangal decommissioned in 2002.
*()**	HWP (Baroda): The plant was modified in 2006 with Ammonia Water Front End for Technology Demonstration. After establishing the technology, the plant operation has been stopped with effect from 01.04.2011. Production facility for TBP Solvents had been established in 2010.
()**	HWP (Talcher): Operation of the Plant at Talcher had to be suspended with effect from 29th April, 1994 due to non-availability of feed synthesis gas on a sustained basis. The infrastructure facility at Talcher is being utilised to diversify the activities for the Board in producing High purity solvents, such as TOPS-99(D2EHPA), TBP,etc.

		Last Updated: 11 August,2011
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