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BHEL – THE ORGANISATION

THE NEW WORLD OF ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS

Development of technology is a brilliant use of human intelligent and skills for collective well
being and is meant to improve the quality of life. It is through electrical technology that our progress
and prosperity is in agriculture, or in industry, or in commerce has been made possible in the last
century.

What the mankind could not achieve in the earlier thousand and thousands of years, last
century has seen a drastic and very rapid change for progress due to the power of electronics &
electricity. The engineers, scientists and technicians and material resources worked together in a
committed effort to create all these amazing scientific breakthroughs. We must pay our sincere tribute
to these outstanding human beings that dedicated to entire live for one single mission.

"To work and contribute not only for today and tomorrow but for ages and generations after
generations.

New technologies in present millennium for eco-friendly power. Super critical technology in
boilers, advanced class combined cycle power plant, coal benefaction, wind power, solar power, geo-
thermal energy, fuel cell technology etc. let us hope that the improve the quality of life of the people of
this globe. Beginning of the present millennium would bring new economic order to.
BHEL is one of the pioneers in engineering industries in the world. The vital role played by the
BHEL today in the country is the mark of its continuous efforts to improve the service in the nation by
consultancy, manufacturing and offering services in power sector.

This success story of BHEL however goes back to 1956 when its first plant was set up in
BHOPAL. Three more major plants in HARDWAR, HYDERABAD AND THRICHIRAPALLI followed this. These
plants have been the core of BHEL efforts to grow and diversify and become one of the most integrated
power and industrial equipment manufacturers in the world. The company now has 14 manufacturing
units, 8 service centre and 4 power sector regional centre, besides project sites spread all over India and
abroad.

BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and meets the needs of
core sector like power, industry, transmission, transportation (including railways), defence,
telecommunications, oil businesses etc. Its products have established an enviable reputation for high
quality and reliability.

This is due to the emphasis placed all along on design, engineering and manufacturing to
international standards by acquiring and adopting some of the best technologies developed in its own
R&D centre. BHEL has acquired ISO 9000 certification for its operations and also adopted the concept of
Total Quality Management (TQM).

ABOUT BHEL RAMACHANDRAPURAM UNIT

As a member of the prestigious “BHEL” family”, BHEL – Hyderabad has earned a reputation as
one of its most important manufacturing units, contributing its lion’s share in BHEL Corporation’s overall
business operation.
The Hyderabad unit was setup in 1963 and started its operations with manufacture of turbo-
generator sets and auxiliaries for 60 and 110 MW thermal utility sets. Over the years it has increased its
capacity range and diversified its operations to many other areas. Today, a wide range of products are
manufactured in this unit, catering to the needs of variety of industries like fertilizers & chemicals,
petrochemicals & refineries, paper, sugar, steel, etc.,

BHEL – Hyderabad unit has collaborations with world renowned MNCs like M/S General Electric,
USA, M/S Nuovo pignone, etc

BHEL PRODUCTS

Products

BHEL manufactures a wide range of Power plant equipments and also caters to the industry
sector.
The products profile includes

 Gas Turbines
 Steam Turbines
 Compressors
 Turbo generators
 Pumps
 Pulverisers
 Switchgears
 Solar Water Heating Systems
 Oil Rigs
 Electrics for Urban Transportation System

Gas Turbines
BHEL - the largest Gas Turbine manufacturer in India, with the state-of-art facilities in all areas
of Gas Turbine manufacture provide complete engineering in-house for meeting specific customer
requirement. 

With over 100 machines and cumulative fired hours of over four million hours, BHEL has supplied
gas turbines for variety of applications in India and abroad. BHEL also has the world’s largest experience
of firing highly volatile naphtha fuel on heavy duty gas turbines.

Steam Turbines
BHEL has the capability to design, manufacture and commission steam turbines of up to 1000 MW
rating for steam parameters ranging from 30 bars to 300 bars pressure and initial & reheat temperatures
up to 6000C. Steam Turbines are manufactured under technical collaboration with Siemens, Germany
covering the whole rang of requirements for Drive, Cogeneration, Captive Power, Utility and Combined
Cycle applications. BHEL today, is fully equipped to provide comprehensive service to clients covering
system engineering, equipment design, and turnkey erection and commissioning.

Compressors

BHEL made its foray into Centrifugal Compressors in the year 1970 with technical
collaboration from Nuovo Pignone, Italy and since then has been catering to the Fertilizer,
Refinery, Petrochemical and other process industries. BHEL today, has built up a cumulative
experience of more than 30 million hours of operation for various applications.

BHEL offers CENTRIFUGAL compressors for pressures as high as 350Kg/Cm2 and


flows up to 350,000 Nm3/Hr. BHEL has the unique capability of offering the Compressor with
any kind of drive being a manufacturer of Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine as-well-as Motors and
can offer the Compressor station fully tested as per the requirements.

BHEL offers total package of Compressor with its drive and all the associated auxiliaries which
includes inter-stage coolers, separators, lube oil and sealing systems, anti-surge control systems,
instrumentation and controls and process gas.
Turbo Generators

BHEL presently has manufactured Turbo-Generators of ratings up to 560 MW and is in the


process of going up to 660 MW. It has also the capability to take up the manufacture of ratings up to
1000 MW suitable for thermal power generation; gas based and combined cycle power generation as-
well-as for diverse industrial applications like Paper, Sugar, Cement, Petrochemical, Fertilizers, Rayon
Industries, etc.

Based on proven designs and know-how backed by over three decades of experience and
accreditation of ISO 9001, the Turbo-generator is a product of high-class workmanship and quality.
Adherence to stringent quality-checks at each stage has helped BHEL to secure prestigious global orders
in the recent past from Malaysia, Malta, Cyprus, Oman, Iraq, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia.
The successful completion of the various export projects in a record time is a testimony of BHEL's
performance.

Pumps
BHEL started manufacture of Pumps during the mid-sixties under technical collaboration
with M/s Sigma Lutin, Czechoslovakia, to meet the requirements of 60 MW, 110 MW and 210
MW thermal power stations, the scope of which was widened to meet the requirements of power
plants up to 500 MW, with the help of another collaboration with M/s Weir Pumps, U.K. BHEL
has also made some in-house product development to gain spin off benefits from the above
collaboration as well as to develop new pumps to meet the requirements of Combined Cycle
Power plants.

BHEL has undertaken a design up-gradation and retrofit of the existing 200 KHI Boiler
Feed pumps Inside Stators with energy efficient hydraulics and cartridge design internals under
technical tie-up with M/s Sulzer Pumps, Germany; and recommended the upgraded 200 KHI-S
Boiler Feed pump to all customers of 110 MW & 210 MW Power Stations operating with the
earlier Czech design for increase of pump availability and reliability and also considerable
reduction in operational costs.

Solar Water Heating Systems

BHEL a pioneer in the field of design manufacturing and installation of solar water
heating systems (SWHS) in the country till date have installed systems covering more than
74,000 m2 of absorber area of capacity over 37 Lakh liters per day. The largest over SWHS of
40000 LPD for space heating is in use at Dr. Willmar Schwabe India Pvt. Ltd. Noida. Solar
water heating systems are environmental friendly, pollution free equipments, harnessing the
abundantly available Sun's energy.

They find application at homes, hostels, hotels, and hospitals (swimming pool, bathing,
washing, cleaning and cooking); in industrial process heating (Textile, Food processing,
Pharmaceutical, Dyeing, Breweries, Metal Plating industries); Milk dairies and chilling plants;
space heating in central air conditioning systems; pre-heating of boiler feed water.  In the
BHEL make Solar Collector, stabilized efficiency values up to 65% is assured under normal
circumstances over a long period without degradation.

Electrics for Urban Transportation System

 25 KV AC, 50 HZ, single phase, broad gauge/meter gauge, Electrical Multiple Units with DC
Drives.
 1500V DC, broad gauge/meter gauge, Electric Multiple Units with DC Drives.
 25 KV AC/1500 VDC broad gauge Electrical Multiple Units with 3 phase drive. 
 Diesel Electric at Multiple Units
 Metro Railway.
 Tram Cars

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