BHEL completes second unit at Anpara-D thermal plant

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has commissioned the second 500 MW thermal unit at Anpara-D Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. With this, BHEL has added 2,320 MW of generating capacity in Uttar Pradesh in the current fiscal (2015-16). This is a first of its kind project, where the power plant has been set up on an abandoned ash pond requiring special technological innovations in the area of civil engineering. Successful execution of this project has set an alternative option for future projects facing constraints of land, a BHEL release said. BHEL was entrusted with the contract for setting up two units of 500 MW each at Anpara-D TPP by Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited. The first 500 MW unit of the project was commissioned in June 2015. BHEL’s scope of work for the project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, and commissioning of state-of-the-art equipment for the project on engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) basis. Key equipment included steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides controls and Instrumentation, electrostatic precipitators suitable for Indian coal and conditions, balance of plant (BOP) packages and civil works. BHEL recently commissioned two sets of 660 MW rating in UP, at Bara in December 2015, and Lalitpur in January 2016. BHEL has been a major partner in the power development programme of Uttar Pradesh, with equipment for 77 per cent of the government sector projects, aggregating to over 13,000 MW, having been supplied by BHEL, the release said. ref: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/bhel-completes-second-unit-at-anparad-thermal-plant/article8339054.ece