Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged the contract worth Rs.394 crore from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam for setting up a captive power plant at its Vizag steel plant in Andhra Pradesh.

The power plant will be equipped with a state-of-the-art multi-fuel fired boiler, designed to utilise blast furnace gas, a waste gas emanating from the steel making process, as well as coal, resulting in appreciable saving of fuel.

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; one 67.5 MW steam turbine generator set of extraction condensing type designed to suit the specific process requirement of the customer and a multi-fuel fired Boiler of 330 tph capacity with controls & instrumentation (C&I) package on a unified platform (max dNA system) and other associated auxiliaries.

The state-of-the-art boiler shall be manufactured at BHEL's Tiruchy plant, while the steam turbine generator set shall be supplied by the company's Hyderabad plant. The power plant is slated for commissioning within a period of 26 months.

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