- 20 June 2007 -

MHI licenses pump technology to BHEL

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) is to license technologies relating to various pumps for thermal power generation plant use to Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), India 's largest heavy electrical machinery manufacturer. This makes MHI the first Japanese company to license pump technology to a power plant maker in India.

The technologies include the design and production technologies of boiler feed water pumps, boiler feed water booster pumps, circulating water pumps and condensate pumps for subcritical and supercritical pressure thermal power generation plants with generation capacities between 500 and 1,000 MW. Delivery of the first pump unit produced under the agreement is expected in late 2009.

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