BHEL wins Rs.7,650 Million Turnkey Contract for Captive Power Plant

Under international competitive bidding (ICB), engineering major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a turnkey order for setting up a captive power plant at a steel plant in West Bengal. The power plant will be equipped with state-of-the-art multi-fuel gas-fired Boilers, specifically designed to utilise waste gases emanating from the steel making process like Blast Furnace gas, Basic Oxygen Furnace gas and Coke oven gas.

Valued at around Rs.7,650 Million, the order has been placed on the company by SAIL for the expansion project of its IISCO Steel Plant at Burnpur in West Bengal. 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. Significantly, this is one of the largest-value single orders secured by BHEL’s Industry Sector business segment.

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; three numbers each of 18 MW Steam Turbine Generator sets, multi-fuel gas-fired Boilers of 200 tons per hour capacity and Turbo-blowers; one 8.2 MW Back pressure Steam Turbine Generator set; Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) package on a unified platform (max dNA system) and other associated auxiliaries.

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.