In a lift to India’s defence manufacturing underneath the federal government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative and self-reliance within the subject of defence tools, state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has acquired an order for the availability of Compact Warmth Exchanger units for 83 LCA Tejas MK1A aircrafts, from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
The order envisages manufacturing, meeting, testing and provide of Compact Warmth Exchangers to be fitted within the LCA Tejas plane being manufactured by HAL.
BHEL’s Heavy Plates and Vessels Plant (HPVP), Visakhapatnam is the only real provider of Warmth Exchangers for LCA Tejas to HAL since 1996. BHEL-HPVP and Aeronautical Growth Company (ADA), Bangalore have collectively designed and developed 13 several types of Compact Warmth Exchangers for Environmental Management System (ECS) and Secondary Energy System (SPS) of LCA MK-1 programme.
BHEL can also be at the moment working with DRDO for the event of Air Cycle Machine based mostly Liquid Cooling System (LCS) for Plane POD utility for LCA Mk-2.
BHEL-HPVP has devoted, intricate manufacturing and inspection services for manufacturing of state-of-the-art Compact Warmth Exchangers for several types of plane manufactured by HAL.
The identical are progressively being augmented to fulfill Worldwide Aero Requirements (AS9100) and BHEL is able to meet the necessities of future packages of LCA, ALH, Sukhoi and AMCA.
BHEL has been a dependable provider of essential tools and providers within the defence and aerospace sector for over three a long time. Considerably, the corporate has already established specialised manufacturing services and capabilities aimed toward making a serious contribution in the direction of self-reliance within the manufacturing of defence tools. These initiatives of BHEL will likely be a driving drive in the direction of the AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan of Authorities of India, the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Supply: Live Mint