BHEL to focus on 800 MW super critical boilers
IANS reported that state owned power equipment producer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd will train its focus on manufacturing and selling 800 MW super critical boilers. A super critical plant has a thermal efficiency of 45% as compared a sub critical plant's efficiency level of between 30% and 38%.
Mr K Ravi Kumar CMD of BHEL said that "We can make 660 MW, 800 MW and 1,000 MW super critical boilers. The 800 MW boilers are good for burning Indian coal."
Mr Kumar speaking at the 'Symposium on Joining Materials' a welding seminar jointly organized by BHEL, the Indian Welding Society and the Welding Research Institute, said that "We will be signing joint venture agreements with the state electricity boards of Karnataka, Gujarat, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh for setting up power plants."
He added that "We have signed an agreement with Tamil Nadu Electricity Board recently."
According to Mr Kumar, BHEL is exploring the possibility of floating a company for power transmission, and is in talks with some Japanese forging companies for a joint venture for making high-quality forgings and castings used in nuclear power generation.
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