Turboatom has manufactured a runner chamber for Kremenchugskaya HPP

During the acceptance tests the geometry verification of flow path and inspection of welded joints by dye penetrant method were performed. As a result, the Act was signed that all controlled parameters comply with the requirements and were accepted by the customer. The equipment was sent to package and shipment.

A new chamber with a diameter of 8 m with flow path of stainless steel will be installed instead of the equipment operated 55 years at the station and exhausted its resource.

Today the runner of hydraulic turbine and parts of guide vane are being manufactured and assembled with the shipment scheduled for 2015.

According to the contract signed in July 2011, OJSC "Turboatom" is performing the reconstruction of three Kaplan turbines with a nominal capacity of 58 MW replacing runners with a diameter of 8 m, hydroturbines shafts, blades of guide vane and bearings. Resulting from the works carried out, the capacity of each unit is expected to increase up to 64 MW. The service life and overhaul period of the equipment will also be extended.

The delivery time of the first turbine is 2014, the second one is 2015, the third one is 2016.