Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) is going to establish high temperature turbine rotor test rig for efficient coal based Thermal Power Plants. It will be the first facility in India for experimental validation of the design of AUSC steam turbine rotor.
Improving technologies to increase the efficiency of coal based thermal power plants requires use of nickel based super alloy materials as against chrome based steels widely used now. The nickel based Alloy 617M has been selected by the Indian Advanced Ultra Super Critical (AUSC) consortium. The alloy is industrially available and the AUSC consortium has already expressed confidence in indigenous development of the alloy. However, lack of experimental data on performance of Alloy 617M rotors hinders effective usage of this alloy in the Indian AUSC power plant.
To overcome this challenge, Department of Science & Technology under Clean Energy Research Initiative has supported a project to BHEL (R&D), Hyderabad for establishment of High Temperature Spin Test Rig (HTSTR).
BHEL is India’s largest engineering and manufacturing company of its kind. It is a power plant equipment manufacturer and operates as an engineering and manufacturing company.
