BHEL bags Compressor package order from Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. for its Panipat Refinery.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged an order for a Compressor package from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) for its Panipat Refinery.

The contract for the Compressor package has been placed on BHEL as part of the revamp of the Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU). The order is a testimony to the customer's confidence in BHEL's capabilities and the indigenous manufacture of the machine will result in substantial saving of foreign exchange for the country.

BHEL’s scope of work in the contract envisages design, manufacture, testing and supply of a Wet Gas Compressor along with Drive Motor and associated Auxiliaries for the FCC Unit. The equipment will be manufactured at BHEL's Hyderabad & Bhopal plants and the contract is to be executed in a tight schedule by September, 2006.

The Compressor for the FCC Unit is one of the critical constituents of the refinery. BHEL has supplied several Wet Gas Compressors in the past for many refineries of IOCL, CPCL, KRL and HPCL, all of which are running satisfactorily.

In the last 25 years, BHEL has supplied several centrifugal compressors to IOC for all their refineries across the country for a variety of applications including Hydrogen Recycle Gas, Wet Gas, Air Process Gas and Natural Gas Booster. Five centrifugal compressors have been supplied by BHEL for different units of Panipat Refinery itself.

BHEL is the only company in India to have established state-of-the-art technology for manufacture of centrifugal compressors, the heart of all process industries like fertilizers, refineries, petrochemicals etc. The company has so far manufactured, supplied and commissioned over 300 Centrifugal Compressors for core industries in India and abroad.