BHEL gets Rs765cr SAIL turnkey order

The country's largest power equipment manufacturing firm, Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), has won a Rs 765 crore turnkey order from Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to set up a 62.2 mw captive power plant in Burnpur, West Bengal.

This is one of the largest single orders, value-wise, secured by the government-owned BHEL's industry sector business division. BHEL's order book as of today stands at Rs 65,000 crore.

BHEL's scope of work in the project includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the captive power plant, in addition to complete civil works. The project is expected to be commissioned within 29 months.

BHEL would supply three steam turbine generator sets of 18 mw each, multi-fuel gas-fired boilers of 200 tonnes and turbo-blowers and other associated auxiliaries to the captive plant.

The plant would utilise waste gases emanating from the steel making process such as blast furnace gas, basic oxygen furnace gas and coke oven gas. The plant will meet the power requirement for the SAIL's expansion of the IISCO steel plant at Burnpur.

Interestingly, BHEL is yet to secure orders for their 800 mw super-critical technology, though according to company officials, it has been ready with the technology for the past three years.

Tata Power that bagged the 4,000 mw Mundra ultra mega power project in Gujarat placed orders with Japan's Toshiba for 800 mw steam turbine-generators and Korean firm Doosan for 800 mw boilers.