BHEL despatches supercritical boiler components for Krishnapatnam project

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)’s 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.

BP Rao, chairman and managing director of BHEL, flagged off the consignment from BHEL’s high-pressure boiler plant here.

For the Krishnapatnam project, supercritical boilers will be manufactured by BHEL at its Tiruchirapalli works in Tamil Nadu, while the company’s Hyderabad and Ranipet plants will supply coal mills and electro-static precipitators (ESPs) respectively.

The first consignment of 800-Mw supercritical boiler components despatched today, to be set up by BHEL, is part of the Rs 2,500-crore order placed with the company by the Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Limited (APPDCL), a joint venture company formed by 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 SGs and associated auxiliaries including 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 has secured another major order worth Rs 5,600 core for supplying three 660 Mw supercritical thermal sets for the 1,980-Mw Prayagraj thermal power project being set up at Bara in the Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh by Prayagraj Power Generation Company Limited (PPGCL), owned by the private sector Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL).