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distribution to BHEL Mail Hospital, OHS centre and The design is being shared with all other units of
Security department. In addition, Haridwar, Bhopal BHEL so that it can be adapted and used by them
and Jhansi units, have made hand sanitisers in- as well.
house, for distribution and use at their local BHEL • BHEL Haridwar, in association with CSIR,
hospitals, dispensaries and also for distribution to has successfully developed an Electrostatic
the security personnel and essential services staff. Disinfectant Spray Machine for sanitising
indoor areas. The portable machine, through
Three-ply masks have been made in-house by the a mist of charged micro particles, achieves
company’s Jhansi unit to meet the requirement of uniform coverage on target surfaces and reduces
the unit’s hospital, guest house, security guards and consumption of disinfectant. As a CSR project,
employees working under essential services. BHEL five such machines have been deployed at various
has also taken up a welfare project for distribution BHEL offices.
of masks which will be manufactured by BHEL’s • BHEL’s Haridwar unit have made their elevator
Ladies Welfare Association, Noida Township. systems free of human contact by making Touch-
free Elevator Buttons. The process involves a
BHEL’s Tiruchirappalli unit has developed a new set simple mechanism of just waving one’s hand
of in-house PPE products like ‘Half-Sleeve Protective
Gown’, ‘Splitter for Oxygen Cylinder’, and ‘Face
Shield Prototype’ for protecting its employees
working under essential services from infection and
for their care.

To address limited manufacturing capacity of
Critical Care Ventilators in country and to meet the
surge requirement of Critical Care Ventilators due
to COVID-19, BHEL is extending its manufacturing
facilities for assembly of critical care Ventilators.
In this endeavour, BHEL has entered into strategic
tie ups and signed non-exclusive Manufacturing
Association Agreements with two domestic OEMs
of critical care ventilators, i.e., M/s AgVa Healthcare,
M/s AB Industries.

R&D and Technological breakthrough

• BHEL has developed in-house technology with
the new BHELMISTER amongst others. Ranipet
unit has developed in-house, a spray assembly
that atomises sanitising liquid and can be used for
mass sanitisation for combating COVID-19, while
consuming comparatively less liquid. It has been
named BHELMISTER and has been donated to
the local administration of Ranipet for sanitising
the whole town on a mass scale. The system is in
operation on the streets of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu.

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