Cleaning machine that works without human intervention inaugurated at BHEL
   Date :30-Sep-2024

Executive Director of BHEL
 Executive Director of BHEL, S M Ramanathan inaugurating the high pressure capacitor box cleaning machine.
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
The machine will help in increasing production of capacitors required for various upcoming HVDC projects 
 
A ‘high pressure capacitor box cleaning machine’ was inaugurated by BHEL Executive Director Bhopal S M Ramanathan on Sunday in a simple ceremony organized in Capacitor manufacturing shop of Block 3 in BHEL. This state of art machine has been upgraded in house and is having features of cleaning capacitor boxes by injecting water jets from multiple locations on set of boxes mounted on a rotary table. Heavy-duty Alkaline Industrial Degreaser - Low Foaming type chemical is used along with water as cleaning agent to get desired results.
 
Hot air Blowers are provided to get dry boxes. Machine is pre-programmed for auto cleaning. Manual mode is also available as an option. Presently cycle is of 30 mins with loading of 12 boxes at a time. This work in auto mode without need of any manual intervention. The machine will help in increasing production of capacitors required for various upcoming HVDC projects. During the ceremony GM – TCB operations/LGX/ WEX Avinash Chandra, GM Transformer engineering & services S K Mahajan, Senior officers Ashish Jain, Rahul Dixit, N R Zilve, Laljeet Oraon, R K Damor, Munna lal Patel, Deepak Sharma, plant operator Pradeep lakra, Hemant Gaur, R K Gautam were present.