BHEL bags Rs 170 cr order from CPCL

The Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli has bagged order worth Rs 170 crore from Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL). The nature of order is to supply a Heat Recovery Steam Generator.

CPCL has the order as part of its plan for setting up a 20 Mw (Frame-5) Gas Turbine-based co-generation power plant in Manali, near Chennai.

The project is being set up to meet the additional power and steam requirements of the refinery as part of its endeavour to achieve compliance to Euro-IV emission norms.

Manali Refinery is already equipped with three BHEL-installed Captive Power Plants, all of which have been operating successfully, efficiently meeting the power as well as steam needs of the refinery, since commissioning, according to BHEL’s release.

The scope of work in the present project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of a Frame-5 Gas Turbine Generator and Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) of 85 Tons per hour (TPH) capacity, with associated auxiliaries and balance of plant.

The equipment for the project will be supplied by BHEL's plants at Tiruchirappalli, Ranipet, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Bangalore and Jhansi.

 Erection and commissioning of the captive power plant will be carried out by the company's Power Sector – Southern Region, Chennai.

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 and fertilizer.

BHEL, Tiruchirappalli so far contracted for supply of 150 Heat Recovery Steam Generators of varying capacities of which 121 have already been commissioned.