Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has
landed a contract valued at
Rs.380 crore to install a 160-mw
gas-based combined cycle power plant
at Rajasthan. Placed by state utility
Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan
Nigam Ltd, the contract relates to the
Ramgarh (Stage IV) project in
Jaisalmer district, and involves the
supply of Frame 9E gas turbines. The
order for Stage III of Ramgarh was also
earlier placed on BHEL.
BHEL's scope of work in the present
contract envisages design, engineering,
manufacture, supply, erection and
commissioning of the main plant and
equipment for the gas-based power
project comprising one Frame 9E gas
turbine with generator, one heat
recovery steam generator, one steam
turbine generator and associated
auxiliaries with state-of-the-art
controls & instrumentation (C&I)
system. The equipment for the project
shall be supplied by BHEL's Hyderabad,
Trichy and Bangalore
plants, while BHEL's
Power Sector-
Northern Region will
undertake erection and
commissioning of the
equipment.
BHEL has fully
established state-ofthe-
art technology for
gas-based combined
cycle power plants
with gas turbines of
ratings up to 290 mw
and coal-based
thermal sets up to
1,000 mw rating. To
meet customer demand, the company
has introduced new rating thermal
sets of 150 mw, 270 mw, 300 mw, 525
mw and 600 mw, in addition to 250
mw and 500 mw sets in the subcritical
range. The company has also
equipped itself to produce thermal
sets with supercritical parameters of
660/700/800-mw unit ratings, using
Indian as well as imported coal, a
BHEL statement noted.