BHEL and IITM organize 3-day International workshop on CFBC boilers

Tiruchirappalli: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and the FBC & HRSG (Fluidised Bed Combustion and Heat Recovery Steam Generators) group of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli jointly conducted a three day international workshop on 'Fluid Dynamic Scaling, Design and Instrumentation of Cold Models and Practical issues of CFBC Boilers'.

The International workshop was attended by FBC experts from Sweden, Germany, Canada and Australia in addition to professors from IITM, NIT, Tiruchirappalli, BHEL’s Corporate R&D officials and engineering groups from BHEL, Tiruchirappalli.

Explaining BHEL’s involvement in the development of FBC technology, A V Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchirappalli, said that BHEL pioneered the research in Fluidised bed combustion as early as 1975.

He said that the company had built test facilities of Bubbling-bed and Circulating Fluidised-bed, for testing newer fuels and the data was used in the design of commercial units. He also said that BHEL was currently executing many CFBC projects of 125 MWe capcity, firing medium-to-high sulphur lignite of Gujarat and Rajasthan and two projects at Neyveli of 250 MWe capacity CFBC units.

Delivering the keynote address on the inaugural session, Mr. A V Krishnan, said that, as global climatic change programmes being pressed hard, BHEL’s quest had been towards clean energy and clean combustion. Mr STH Rizvi, ED (Coporate Engineering and Product Development-CEPD), BHEL, New Delhi, in his special address, said that BHEL’s responses to climate change were IGCC (Integrated Gasifier Combined Cycle) and supercritical technology.

Pointing out BHEL’s readiness in meeting the country’s power requirement by increasing its manufacturing capacity, Mr Rizvi said that every one per cent increase in GDP of the nation could be achieved with two percent increase in energy requirement.

Mr M Karunakara Reddy, General Manager (FBC& HRSG) welcomed the gathering and briefed about the developmental growth of CFBC technology.

Mr. A V Krishnan urged the experts attending the workshop to deliberate all technical issues connected with CFBC technology and wanted the 'scale-down' studies to optimize the performance of the commercial plant by as closely representing the operating characteristics as possible in the scaled-down model.

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