BHEL bags order from NPTI for operating training simulator.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited's city-based Electronics Division has bagged an order from National Power Training Institute for design, engineering, testing, supply, installation and commissioning of Operator Training Simulator for 800MW Super Critical Power Plant, the company said recently.

The simulator is proposed to be set up at NPTI's Power Training Institute located at Faridabad in Haryana, BHEL said in a release.

The order has been bagged against stiff International Competitive Bidding. NTPC is the consultant for this project, it added.

Stating that BHEL-Electronics division has entered into the field of Operator Training Simulators (OTS) for coal fired power plants since 2010, the company said the division has executed more than 20 contracts for Operator Training Simulators.

It said BHEL has supplied Simulators for various thermal generation capacities ranging from 270 MW to 600MW.

This also includes Simulators for Turbine and its Secondary Cycle for Atomic Power Plant. BHEL is also implementing simulator of 800 MW for APGENCO Krishnapatnam for which implementation is under progress, it added.

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