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