BHEL - the largest Gas Turbine manufacturer in India, with the state-of-art facilities in all areas of Gas Turbine manufacture provide complete engineering in-house for meeting specific customer requirement. With over 100 machines and cumulative fired hours of over four million hours, BHEL has supplied gas turbines for variety of applications in India and abroad. BHEL also has the world's largest experience of firing highly volatile naphtha fuel on heavy duty gas turbines.

BHEL is one of the few business associates of M/s. GE, USA and under its comprehensive Technical Collaboration Agreement from 1986, (license to manufacture rotors and hot gas path components) offers complete power plant engineering solutions. BHEL also manufactures Gas Turbine under its ongoing Technical Collaboration Agreement with M/s Siemens, Germany. Some specific features:

1. Capability to fire a wide range of gaseous and liquid fuels and a mix of such fuels ranging from clean fuels like Natural Gas, Distillate Oil, Naphtha, LNG to heavy fuels like LSHS, crudes, blends, etc. Fuel economy over a wide range of ambient temperatures and loads.

2. Facilities like Black start, fast start and emergency start.

3. Suitable for power generation and mechanical drive application. Models below 100 MW suitable for 50 Hz and 60 Hz.

4. All matching equipment like generators, compressors, etc. manufactured in-house. Design of combustion systems as per international emission norms. Machines designed as per major international codes like API, etc.

5. Suitable for IGCC applications.

6. Suitable for indoor or outdoor locations.

7. Use of water or steam injection for abatement of NOX emissions and power augmentation.

BHEL equipped with precision and sophisticated machine - tools like CNC Broaching Machine, 5-Axis Milling Machine and over speed Vacuum Balancing Tunnel offers Conversion, Modification and Up-gradation services - through joint venture with GE for all existing Gas turbines. Services are also offered for all Field support, Retrofits and repairs, inspections and Technical Consultancy on "Operation & Maintenance of Gas Turbine Based Power Plants".