State-owned power equipment maker  Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned 250 MW unit based on eco-friendly Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) technology, using low quality coal (lignite) as the primary fuel.

The 250 MW lignite based thermal unit has been commissioned at Bhavnagar Energy Company Limited (BECL)’s 2×250 MW thermal power project, located at Padva village in Bhavnagar District of Gujarat.

• The project is equipped with CFBC technology that enables use of low quality lignite as fuel.

• this is the third 250 MW unit based on CFBC technology, commissioned by BHEL, with two other units having been commissioned earlier by BHEL in Tamil Nadu.

• BHEL has earlier executed the 4×125 MW Surat Lignite Power project at Nani Naroli in district Surat, Gujarat, also involving CFBC technology.

• CFBC boilers are highly fuel flexible and can burn a wide variety of fuels, including Lignite, efficiently. CFBC boilers are also highly environment friendly with very low pollutant emissions.

• Lignite reserves in the country have been estimated at around 9 billion tonnes. Presently, only a small percentage of the total reserves of lignite have been exploited.

• The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat had earlier laid the foundation stone of the supercritical technology-based 1×800 MW Wanakbori project in Gujarat, which is presently being executed by BHEL on Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) basis.
  

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited(BHEL)

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited owned by the Government of India, is a power plant equipment manufacturer and operates as an engineering and manufacturing company.

Headquarters: New Delhi

CEO: Atul Sobti

Founder: Government of India

Founded: 1964