KYIV. Sept 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Public joint-stock company Turboatom (Kharkiv), Ukraine’s largest producer of turbine equipment, has finished production of energy equipment for unit five of Aksu thermal power plant (TPP) in Kazakhstan, Turboatom said on its website.
The company said that in August the turbine was completed and transferred for shipment. In July, the enterprise tested the regulating system and transferred it for shipment. Previously, specialists of the plant provided the control assemblage of cylinders of turbine К-325-23.5 with rotors to the customer.
As reported, under the contract signed in July 2012, Turboatom is to replace unit K-300-240 with the next generation K-325-23.5 turbine at unit five of Aksu TPP. After modernization, the turbine capacity will increase by 25 MW, efficiency will be increased, the life-span of the unit and the whole power plant will be extended, and the environmental performance of TPP will be improved.
Turboatom is the sole producer of turbine equipment in Ukraine for hydro, heat and nuclear electricity stations. Turboatom specializes in manufacturing turbines for thermal and nuclear power plants, hydraulic turbines for hydroelectric power plants and pumped storage power plants, gas turbines for thermal power plants, steam and gas equipment, and other power equipment.
