Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), a government-owned company in India to which MHI has licensed technologies for thermal power plant-use pumps, jointly received an order for 18 pumps as part of steam turbine generator package to be installed at a new thermal power generation plant.

The pumps on order are for Units 1 and 2 of a 1,320 MW (megawatt) supercritical-pressure coal-fired power generation plant to be built by NTPC Ltd. at Barh in Bihar, in eastern India - NTPC's Barh II Project. This event marks the first order BHEL and MHI have received jointly. The delivery is scheduled in 2011.

The 18 pumps to be delivered are boiler feedwater pumps, boiler feedwater booster pumps and condensate pumps, six each. Three of each type will be installed respectively at the plant's Units 1 and 2 (660 MW each).  

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