Equity Bulls reported that Thermax Ltd has won a INR 503 crore EPC order from a leading Government of India enterprise for setting up a captive power plant for its new 3 million tonne per annum integrated steel plant in Central India.
Thermax will design, engineer, construct and commission the project on a turnkey basis. The supply of equipment includes 3 tonne per hour capacity to 160 tonne per hour capacity boilers that use multiple fuels blast furnace and coke oven gas from the steel process and light diesel oil and two 40 MW each steam turbines.
Steam from the boilers will be used to blow air into the blast furnace and to generate 80 MW of power. The order also includes water dematerialize plant, cooling water system, air conditioning and ventilation system, compressed air system, fire fighting facilities, emergency DG set, etc. This project is designed as a zero discharge plant and an effluent treatment plant based on reverse osmosis will recycle water.