Tuesday, December 7, 2010

R&D and Innovation are strategic initiatives from BHEL

To remain competitive and to meet customer's expectations , BHEL lays great emphasis on the continuous up gradation of the products and related technologies , and development of new products. The company has upgraded its products to contemporary levels through continuous in – house efforts as well as through acquisition of new technologies from leading engineering organization of the world.

BHEL'S investment in R & D is amongst the largest in the corporate sector in India. Products developed in - house during the last five years contributed over 7% to the revenues in 2004 - 05.

BHEL has introduced , in the recent past , several state - of – the – art products ; low - NOx oil / gas burners , large capacity atmospheric fluidized bed combustion boilers , high - efficiency pelton hydro turbines , petroleum deport automation systems , 36 KV gas - insulated sub – station , controlled shunt reactors ( CSR ) and performance analysis , diagnostics and optimization ( PADO ) package for power plants , etc. The company has also transferred a few technologies developed in - house to other Indian companies for commercialization.

The company is also engaged in research in futuristic areas , such as applications of super conducting materials in power generation and industry , and fuel cells distributed , environment – friendly power generation.

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