Power Machines manufactured the first russian low-speed turbine for nuclear power plants
Based on the experience of creating powerful high-speed steam turbines and advanced scientific achievements, Power machines has been managing a project for the development and manufacture of a low-speed turbine plant with a capacity of 1255 MW for several years. The company has consistently implemented a set of research and development efforts, experimental testing for new units on bench-scale and full-scale test units, and pre-production engineering.
To produce innovative equipment, Power machines has built and commissioned a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to produce power equipment with a capacity of 500 MW, including low-speed turbine units for nuclear power plants with a capacity of more than 1200 MW with the possibility of expanding the product line to a capacity of 1800 MW. Investments in the construction and equipment of the complex amounted to about 7 billion rubles.
The new generation low-speed turbine with a capacity of 1255 MW was designed and developed by employees of the special design bureau Turbina at LMZ that considered the requirements of the innovative VVER-TOI* project. Today, it is considered one of the most promising in the world – the characteristics of the main assemblies will allow future machine creation based on this, the use of which will be possible in a turbine plant with a unit capacity within a range of 1600-1800 MW.
Previously, the LMZ product line for nuclear power plants was represented exclusively by high-speed turbines with a maximum capacity of 1200 MW.
- Manufacturing the prototype of a low-speed high-power turbine is the most important innovative project for the Russian power industry as a whole, which allows JSC “Power machines” to enter the market for low-speed high-power turbines and compete in this segment with international power engineering companies. The current national policy for development in the nuclear industry has created comprehensive conditions for the development of a new technology for the Russian market for producing low-speed turbine plants and the import substitution of high-tech equipment,” said Anton Viktorov, Head of the Nuclear Power Division of “Power machines”.
*VVER-TOI is a generation III+ universal project of a two-unit NPP optimized in terms of technical and economic indicators with reactor plants built according to VVER technology (Water-Water Energetic Reactor), developed in an advanced information technology design environment.