OJSC "Turboatom" has completed the manufacture of turbine guide vanes for Kremenchug HPP

Марта 12, 2011

Next week in the presence of the customer scheduled functional testing equipment, after which it will be put under the shipment. At Kremenchug HPP “Turboatom” carries out modernization of the existing turbine equipment.

For the HPP designed and manufactured rotary-vane runners with diameter of 8 meters, installed new blades of the guide vanes and bearing of a composite material that does not require lubrication in the friction wheels working at the sites of the kinematics of the sending machine - bearings, working on a water or grease.
After upgrading the capacity of hydropower will increase from 58 MW to 62 MW, efficiency will increase by 4%, the lifetime of turbine will increase by 30-40 years, the turnaround time - 5-7 years.