The country’s largest Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion (CFBC) Power Project of 250 MW capacity will be commissioned by BHEL for Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 2011.This was disclosed by A V Krishnan, Executive Director, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli in the third FBC and HRSG (Heat Recovery Steam Generator) Customer Meet held here.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli organised a one-day Customer Meet Fluidised Bed Combustion and Heat Recovery Steam Generator Boilers. The Customer Meet was attended by more than 60 people from various organizations including from PT Adaro, Indonesia.
Krishnan said that BHEL, Tiruchirappalli had so far supplied 80 to 90 Bubbling FBCs and six CFBC boilers which included exports to Indonesia and New Calidonia ( a French island). BHEL is also into expanding the market of HRSGs by large size HRSGs behind Frame 9 FA and 9 FB.
A K Mathur, ED, Tata Projects, delivering the special address, compared the pulverized coal –fired boilers with the CFBC boilers and said that these CFBC boilers with their environmental advantages and more fuel options bettered the conventional ones.
With availability of more gas in Godavari basin, Mathur said that the gas turbine market is heating up throwing more opportunities for growth of HRSG market.
He cautioned that as the environmental needs are growing higher with strict emission requirements, CFBC boilers offered better alternatives. He said that he looked forward to BHEL installing higher capacity Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plants in the interest of the Nation. He also desired that BHEL attempted at the supercritical CFBCs.
M Karunakara Reddy, General Manager Incharge, Engineering, FBC and HRSG, Tiruchirppalli, welcoming the gathering, outlined the two-fold objectives of the Customer Meet. He said that this Meet would give a comprehensive feedback from the customers and inform them of the latest technological advancements of the products.
Delivering the keynote address at the inauguration function of this one-day Customer Meet, Krishnan attributed the growth of CFBC market to the non guarantee of availability of the same quality of fuels during the life of a plant, robust design and fuel flexibility to accommodate a range of fuels with differing moisture and calorific values.
The meet had two sessions devoted to FBC Boilers and HRSGs. M Vijayawargiya, ED, IOCL, Paradip Refinery was the Chief Guest for the HRSG session. Frank Leuschke, Lentjes, BHEL’s technical partner made a presentation on CFBC boilers. S Sundararajan, Additional General Manager, Engineering, Research and Development, BHEL summed up the events. P Selvakumaran, AGM, Marketing proposed a vote of thanks.
ref:
http://machinist.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2860&Itemid=2
Monday, November 15, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment