Power Machines has manufactured and completed the shipment of a hydraulic turbine impeller for Ust-Srednekanskaya HPP of RusHydro. The 86-ton impeller was manufactured at the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod and is intended for hydropower unit No. 1 of the Ust-Srednekanskaya HPP.
Power Machines started a student design bureau (SDB) at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. This is the third design bureau at the premises of the university, opened by the power engineering company in 2020. The opening ceremony was attended by Alexander Ivanovsky, General Designer of JSC "Power machines", and Andrey Rudskoy, Rector of SPbPU.
Following modernization performed by Power Machines, the sixth power unit of the largest power plant in Central Asia has successfully passed the stage of integrated testing and is being prepared for commissioning. At the same time, Power Machines experts continue to install the supplied equipment at power unit No. 5.
The machine-tool fleet of the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (LMZ) was enlarged with a band saw machine and a sandblasting chamber. The new equipment was supplied as part of a project for the manufacture of medium and high capacity gas turbines.
Power Machines manufactured and delivered to the construction site of the Farhad HPP a guide vane and a bearing for a hydraulic turbine. This is the last set of hydraulic equipment designed for the modernization of hydropower unit (HPU) No. 3.
Power Machines continues to implement a project to create a heavy-duty gas turbine – GTE-170. This past October, they manufactured the first set of rotor discs for the domestic gas turbine GTE-170.
Power Machines and the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research University MPEI" launched a student design bureau (SDB) at the premises of the university. The opening ceremony was attended by Mikhail Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Timur Lipatov, General Director of JSC "Power machines", and Nikolai Rogalev, Rector of NRU MPEI.
Power Machines joined the ecological and historical program of the State Russian Museum - "All-Russian Oak Grove of Emperor Peter the Great". The tree planting ceremony took place with the participation of the Kalininsky District Administration Office of St. Petersburg.
Power Machines, in cooperation with a leading Russian aerospace company, commenced testing of the GTE-170 gas turbine ignition system. The tests are conducted at the testing facility of Power Machines' partner - NPO CKTI named after I.I. Polzunov.
As part of the General Agreement establishing the university status as a partner of Power Machines for training personnel and creating a center of excellence, the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and the power engineering company conducted an opening ceremony of a student design bureau (SDB) at the university. SDB will provide training in two areas: "Power Industry and Electrical Engineering" and "Special Electromechanical Systems".