Turboatom tested and delivered by the last shipment of a wicket gate for Kievskaya HPP

Февраля 06, 2013

OJSC "Turboatom" tested and delivered a shipment of a wicket gate for Kievskaya HPP (aggregate No 18). In the presence of the customer guide vanes passed the functional test, the results of which signed the act of acceptance of the fact that all the monitored parameters comply

At Kievskaya HPP being updated horizontal bulb turbines and installing a new runner and a wicket gate. The specialists of "Turboatom" created new high Kaplan runner with diameter of 6 meters with an updated blade system and equipped with new blades guide vanes with improved profile.

After the power reconstruction of hydro aggregate will increase from 19, 2 MW to 21 MW, efficiency will increase by 4%, and improve environmental safety and service life of the turbine.

This is the latest hydraulic system that modernized enterprise. Total for 15 years at Kievskaya HPP will modernize 20 aggregates with unit capacity 19 MW, start first held in 1998.