BHEL

BHEL or Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is the largest engineering and manufacturing
enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector. BHEL is one of the nine
large Public Sector Undertakings known as navratnas or nine jewels. BHEL offers over
180 products and provides systems and services to meet the needs of core sectors like:
power, transmission, industry, transportation, oil & gas, non-conventional energy sources
and telecommunication.

BHEL was founded in 1950s. Its operations are organised around three business sectors:
Power, Industry - including Transmission, Transportation, Telecommunication &
Renewable Energy - and Overseas Business. Today, BHEL has a wide-spread network
comprising 14 manufacturing divisions, 8 service centres, 4 power sector regional
centres, 18 regional offices, and a large number of project sites spread all over India and
abroad. BHEL is one of the largest exporters of engineering products & services from
India. BHEL has established its references in around 60 countries of the world, ranging
from the United States in the West to New Zealand in the Far East. Its export range
include: individual products to complete power stations, turnkey contracts for power
plants, EPC contracts, HV/EHV Sub-stations, O&M services for familiar technologies,
specialized after-market services
like Residual Life Assessment
(RLA) studies and retrofitting, refurbishing & overhauling, and supplies to manufacturers
& EPC contractors.

BHEL's product range include: Steam turbines and generators of up to 500MW capacity
for utility and combined-cycle applications; Steam turbines for CPP applications; Gas
turbines of up to 260MW (ISO) rating; Custom-built conventional hydro turbines of
Kaplan, Francis and Pelton types with matching generators, pump turbines with matching
motor-generators; Spherical, butterfly and rotary valves and auxiliaries for hydro station;
HSD, LDO, FO, LSHS, natural-gas/biogas based diesel power plant; Industrial turbo-sets
of ratings from 1.5 to 120MW; Steam generators for utilities, ranging from 30 to 500MW
capacity, using coal, lignite, oil, natural gas or a combination of these fuels; Pulverized
fuel fired boilers; Stoker boilers; Atmospheric fluidized bed combustion boilers;
Circulating fluidized bed combustion boilers; Waste heat recovery boiler; Boiler
Auxiliaries; Heat Exchangers & Pressure Vessels; Pumps; Power Station Control
Equipment; Switchgears; Bus Ducts; Transformers; Insulators; Capacitors; Energy
Meters etc.

Major Achievements of BHEL:

• Acquired certifications for Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001),

Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and Occupational Health &
Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 18001).
• Installed equipment for over 90,000 MW of power generation.
 • Supplied over 2,25,000 MVA transformer capacity and other equipment operating
in Transmission & Distribution network up to 400 kV (AC & DC).
• Supplied over 25,000 Motors with Drive Control System to Power projects,
Petrochemicals, Refineries, Steel, Aluminum, Fertilizer, Cement plants, etc.
• Supplied Traction electrics and AC/DC locos to power over 12,000 km Railway
network.
• Supplied over one million Valves to Power Plants and other Industries.

Note: The above information was last updated on 21-07-2007