Technology to be used at Delimara Power Station not ‘experimental’
29/01/2010
Enemalta wishes to clarify that at the public meeting of the MEPA board to discuss the application for an outline development permit, Engineer Peter Grima did not at any point state that the technology being used at the Delimara power station was untested or being applied for the first time. On the contrary, he actually explained that that there are examples of diesel engines and other generating plants using similar technology worldwide.
Neither is the abatement technology new. There is a large diesel engine plant in Korea which is already equipped with NOx, SOx and dust abatement equipment that has been working perfectly well for some four years now and is similar to what is being installed at Delimara.
Only one thing is a first, the combination of these specific diesel engines and this specific abatement technology. Enough is known about both from experience elsewhere to accurately predict how the combination of the two will work out.
It is unfounded to say that anything “experimental” is being done at Delimara.
Nirvana Azzopardi
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