Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
(BHEL), a government-owned company in India to which MHI has licensed
technologies for thermal power plant-use pumps, jointly received an order for 18
pumps as part of steam turbine generator package to be installed at a new
thermal power generation plant. The pumps on order are for Units 1 and 2 of a
1,320 MW (megawatt) supercritical-pressure coal-fired power generation plant to
be built by NTPC Ltd. at Barh in Bihar, in eastern India - NTPC's Barh II
Project. This event marks the first order BHEL and MHI have received jointly.
The delivery was scheduled in 2011.
The 18 pumps to be delivered are boiler feedwater pumps, boiler feedwater
booster pumps and condensate pumps, six each. Three of each type will be
installed respectively at the plant's Units 1 and 2 (660 MW each).
BHEL was in charge of order-taking. For each pump type ordered, MHI will supply
three units of assembled pumps to BHEL. For the remaining three units, MHI will
supply components and parts for assembly at BHEL, which will install all pumps
at the site.
BHEL, encompassing 14 plants, is India's largest heavy electrical machinery
manufacturer capable of handling the entire power plant construction process:
from manufacture and supply of major components such as boilers, steam turbines,
gas turbines, water turbines, generators and power transmission facilities to
coordination of power plant construction on a turnkey basis. BHEL enjoys an
overwhelming share in the domestic thermal power plant equipment market.
In 2007 MHI licensed to BHEL, design and production technologies of boiler
feedwater pumps, boiler feedwater booster pumps, circulating water pumps and
condensate pumps for subcritical- and supercritical-pressure thermal power
plants with generation capacities between 500 and 1,000 MW.