BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), May 22 (SeeNews) – Over 60% of the works for installation of a flue gas desulphurisation unit at Bosnia's Ugljevik coal-fired power plant have been carried out, with the project set to be completed by the middle of 2019, the plant operator, RiTE Ugljevik said on Tuesday.
Thе installation of a flue gas desulphurisation system, which will be the first of its type in the Western Balkans, costs 100 million euro ($118.3 million), 80 million euro of which has been procured from Japan International Cooperation Agency as a loan, RiTE Ugljevik said in a statement following a visit of the Japanese ambassador to Bosnia, Hideyuki Sakamoto.
"The project is of inestimable importance for ecology, as well as for the general development and continuation of electricity production in this power plant", the director of RiTE Ugljevik, Djordje Popovic, said.
In November last year, Yokogawa Electric Corporation said it will deliver a control system for the flue gas desulphurisation system that is to be installed at Bosnia's Ugljevik.
The 300-MW lignite-fired Ugljevik power plant is located in northeastern Bosnia. Its capacity of 300 MW represents a quarter of the total power generation capacity of the Serb Republic, one of Bosnia's constituent entities.
The flue gas desulphurisation system is expected to help Bosnia meet environmental standards, which is a requirement for joining the EU.
The project will be managed by Yokogawa GmbH, Yokogawa's subsidiary in Austria, and Central East Europe and Ogranak Yokogawa Europe Branches Beograd, the Serbian office of Yokogawa Europe.
In Central and Eastern Europe, Yokogawa products are being used in flue gas desulphurisation systems at large coal-fired power plants in Bulgaria and Romania.
Founded in 1915, Yokogawa's global network of 113 companies spans 60 countries.
The Serb Republic is one of two entities that from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other is the Federation.
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