October 11, 2008

L&T to supply coal gasifier to Hebi Coal

Larsen & Toubro Ltd has announced that its Heavy Engineering Division has bagged a contract valued at Euro 28 million (INR 170 crore) for supply of the Coal Gasifier and Syngas Cooler assembly to Hebi Coal and Electricity Co Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Zhongyuan Coal Chemical Industry Group of China.

The complete Gasifier assembly & the structure, which is expected to weigh 1740 tonnes, is the world's largest and heaviest Gasifier assembly, with a capacity to handle 3400 tonnes per day of coal. The assembly will be the heart of a Methanol Plant with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per annum. The equipment will be manufactured from advanced technology steels at L&T's state of the art manufacturing facilities at Powai & Hazira.

Mr MV Kotwal member of the board of L&T said that the manufacture of this Gasifier will require transportation of the large fabricated sections, with on site assembly, testing and erection. He said that although such jobs pose enormous challenges, the teams at L&T are confident of meeting the requirements, given their track record of having successfully completed similar work on Gasifiers supplied to remote locations in China, where ambient temperatures were as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.

L&T has supplied several large Coal Gasifiers to China for various Ammonia, Methanol, Olefin and Coal-to-Liquid Fuel projects.