BHEL wins Rs.9,500 Million highest-value captive power plant order

BHEL secures highest-value single order for a 99 MW Captive Power Plant

from Bharat Oman Refinery Limited

New Delhi, October 12: Engineering major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured an order worth Rs.9,500 Million, for setting up a 99 MW captive power plant on EPC basis (the highest-value single order for a captive power plant). The power plant will be equipped with eco-friendly, state-of-the-art Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion (CFBC) boilers, specifically designed to utilize Petcoke fuel.

Bharat Oman Refinery Limited (BORL) has placed the order on BHEL for a captive power plant (3x33 MW), to be set up as part of its Refinery project at Bina in Madhya Pradesh. The customer has opted to source the captive power plant from BHEL in view of its techno-economic superiority - a testimony to the customer’s confidence in BHEL’s capability.

Won against International Competitive Bidding (ICB), the order assumes special significance, as this is the first order for Petcoke-fired CFBC boilers on BHEL, as also the largest-value single order ever secured by the company's Industry Sector business segment.

The eco-friendly power plant will meet the process steam and power requirement of the upcoming Refinery project. While the first unit is slated for commissioning in a schedule of 26 months, the project will be completed within 30 months. The equipment, to be supplied under the contract, has to meet very stringent technical specifications to ensure uninterrupted and high-quality power and steam, required for the refinery.

BHEL's scope of work in the project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the power plant, in addition to complete civil works. Major equipment to be supplied includes; three numbers each of 33 MW Steam Turbine Generators and CFBC Boilers of 275 tons per hour capacity with Petcoke/Limestone Handling systems and Ash Handling system, other associated auxiliaries and balance of plant equipment.

The equiment for the project will be supplied by BHEL's plants at Hyderabad, Trichy, Ranipet, Bhopal, Jhansi and Electronics Division, Bangalore. Complete Civil Works and Erection and Commissioning of the captive power plant will be carried out by the company's Power Sector - Western Region, Nagpur.

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, fertilizer etc.