BHEL wins Rs.3,940 Million Turnkey Contract for Captive Power Plant

Under international competitive bidding (ICB), engineering major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a turnkey contract for setting up a captive power plant at a steel plant in Andhra Pradesh.

The power plant will be equipped with a state-of-the-art multi-fuel fired Boiler, designed to utilise Blast Furnace gas, a waste gas emanating from the steel making process, as well as coal, resulting in appreciable saving of fuel.

Valued at around Rs.3,940 Million, the order has been placed on the company by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limted (RINL) for the expansion project of its Vizag Steel Plant in Andhra Pradesh.

The Vizag Steel Plant is already equipped with a BHEL supplied Captive Power Plant which has been operating successfully for over ten years. The customer has once again opted to source a captive power plant from BHEL reflecting its confidence in BHEL's capabilities.

The power plant will meet the power requirement of the upcoming expansion project of the steel plant and is slated for commissioning in a tight schedule of 26 months.

BHEL's scope of work in the project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the captive power plant, in addition to complete civil works. Major equipment to be supplied includes; one 67.5 MW Steam Turbine Generator set of extraction condensing type designed to suit the specific process requirement of the customer and a multi-fuel fired Boiler of 330 tons per hour capacity with Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) package on a unified platform (max dNA system) and other associated auxiliaries.

The state-of-the-art Boiler shall be manufactured at BHEL's Tiruchy plant, while the Steam Turbine Generator set shall be supplied by the company’s Hyderabad plant.

BHEL has emerged as the market leader in co-generation and captive power plants, offering units from 10 MW onwards for both steam turbine-based and gas-based combined cycle power projects for total power and process steam requirements of various industries. So far, the company has supplied and commissioned more than 700 steam turbine and gas turbine-based plants for a host of industries like metal, paper, sugar, cement and process industries like refineries, petrochemicals, fertiliser etc, in domestic and overseas markets.