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State-run power equipment maker BHEL has announced the successful manufacture and testing of the country’s first new series turbo generator of 600 MW rating.
The generator shall be supplied and installed at the upcoming North Chennai Thermal Power Project of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), an official statement said here today.
In addition to sub-critical thermal power plants of 600-MW rating, these new series turbo generators will cater to the requirements of thermal power stations with supercritical turbines of 660 and 700 MW ratings, it added.
With the successful testing of the generator, a new benchmark has been set by BHEL with respect to indigenous manufacture of thermal sets with supercritical parameters.
Several sets of 600 MW, 660 MW, 700 MW and 800 MW ratings are now under various stages of manufacture at BHEL’s Haridwar plant.
The facility for assembly and testing of this series of generators has been designed and engineered in-house at BHEL’s Haridwar plant.
The new facility has the capability to manufacture and test turbo generators of up to 1,000-MW rating and has test pits for the assembly of two generators simultaneously.
BHEL has already enhanced its power equipment manufacturing capacity to 15,000 MW per annum and is further augmenting it to 20,000 MW per annum by March 2012.
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