1600-Mw thermal power project moves ahead

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited’s (BHEL) Tiruchy unit on Thursday despatched the first consignment of supercritical boiler components for the 2x800 Mw power project at Krishnapatnam in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.

B P Rao, chairman and managing director, BHEL, flagged off the consignment in the presence of A V Krishnan, executive director, BHEL Trichy Complex, and other senior officials, from BHEL’s High Pressure Boiler Plant at Trichy.

For the project, the supercritical boilers will be manufactured by BHEL at its Tiruchirapalli works in Tamil Nadu, while the company’s Hyderabad and Ranipet plants will supply the Coal Mills and the ESPs, respectively.

These are the first 800 Mw supercritical boilers being set up by BHEL against a Rs 2,500 crore order placed on the company by Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Limited (APPDCL), a joint venture of APGenco and ILFS for setting up the 2x800 Mw Steam Generator (SG) package at Krishnapatnam.

BHEL’s scope of work in the project envisages manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the Steam Generators and associated auxiliaries including Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs).

BHEL had demonstrated its international competitiveness by securing this order by outbidding the L&T-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) combine in a global tender. Recently, BHEL secured another major order worth Rs 5,600 core for supplying three 660 Mw supercritical thermal sets for the 1980 Mw Prayagraj Thermal Power Project being set upat Bara in the Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh by Prayagraj Power Generation Company Limited (PPGCL), owned by the private sector Jaiprakash Associates.