At 1:11 on November 10, 2017, local time in Bangladesh, the units of the coal-fired thermal power project with the largest total installed capacity in Bangladesh so far which is contracted by HEI — the Barapukuria 275MW Coal-fired Thermal Power Project — were once synchronized successfully to the grid.

The Bangladesh Barapukuria Project is the first coal-fired thermal power project signed by HEI with Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), following the two gas projects — the Tonggi Project and the Sylhet Project contracted by HEI. The contract scope includes the engineering, procurement, , supply, civil works, installation, tests and 5-year long-term service. The project site is located in the northwest of Bangladesh,400 kilometersaway from the capital city — Dhaka. The three main equipment of the power plant are made by Harbin Electric Corporation (HE) and the power plant auxiliary equipment is provided by Chinese manufacturers. Therefore, the project is a typical made-in-China and constructed-by-China project. It is not only an important significance to the Bangladesh electric power development, but also to the “going out” of Chinese enterprises.

The units of the Bangladesh Barapukuria Project were successfully ignited at 20:10 on November 8, 2017. The steam turbine started to run at the speed of 3,000 rpm at 18:00 on November 9, 2017 and the shafting parameters were fine after the constant speed became stable. All the relevant complexity tests were completed, which laid a solid foundation for the successful synchronization of the units. After the start up and commissioning of all the project units were carried out, the boiler ignition, the unit starting up to reach a speed, the speed stabilizing and the first-time synchronization were all successfully carried out at one time, all the system devices ran stably and all the main operation parameters met the requirements.

At present, the Barapukuria project team of HEI is working hard to ensure that all the performance indexes of the project units meet the long-cycle safe and steady operation requirements to prepare for the successful completion of the 42-day reliability test and striving to hand over the project to the owner and put it into commercial operation as soon as possible.