Hydrotechnical Construction, Vol. 33, No.

11, 1999

R E S O L U T I O N OF T H E A L L - R U S S I A N C O N F E R E N C E " P R O B L E M S OF
M O D E R N I Z I N G A N D P R O L O N G I N G T H E LIFE OF T U R B I N E E Q U I P M E N T , "
ST. P E T E R S B U R G , J U N E 10-11, 1999

A. N. R e m e z o v and V. S. Shevchenko

The conference notes that in recent years the problem of wear and obsolescence of equipment of electric
power stations and networ -ks has steadily become exacerbated in Russia's power industry. T h e capacities of thermal
and tLvdroelectric power station equipment that has exhausted its life are increasing. According to the a~'ailable
predictive evaluation, for the existing rate of renovation and established approaches to the use of installed capacity,
49%. or 84 million kWh, of generating equipment will have exhausted its life by the year 2005. Especially acute is
the problem of renovating the stock of turbine equipment. More than 450 steam-turbine units and more than 200
turbine-generator units will have e,xhausted their life by 2006.
In many respects the low rate of renovation is due to a shortage of financial resources owing both to nonpay-
ment of power consumers and to the deficiency of sources of financing these works (depreciation charges). Aging of
equipment is one of the main causes of worsening of the technical, economic, and environmental indices of electric
power stations. For these reasons the Russian United Power System (RUPS) organization annually received more
than 4 billion rubles in profit less than was due.
It is necessary to take immediate measures to provide a reliable technical condition of the generating equip-
ment of RUPS. The most effective for solving this problem is modernization of the equipment, in the case of which tile
cost of 1 M W of new capacity is 30% lower than in the case of new construction. Modernization presumes not only
physical updating of power-generating capacities but also an increase of economy of the equipment. Its realization re-
quires advance preparation of technical solutions, such as, for instance, the creation of the water passages of turbines
with increased economy, improved parts and components, thermal schemes, pilot gas-turbine plants, steam-turbine
plants, etc.
To provide the operating capacity needed for stable power supply of consumers, to develop export of electric
power, and to increase tile efficiency of power production, the conference resolved:
1. To consider the top-priority direction of modernization for power stations of R U P S and power system
companies:
operating on gas fuel -- binary-cycle steam-and-gas turbine plants and gas-turbine superstructares of steam-
power units;
operating on low-grade solid fuel - fuel comblmtion in boilers with a circulating fluidized bed:
condensing, burning an}- type of fossil fuel - steam-power units operating with super-supercritical steam
parameters and using prospective systems of heating the feedwater, modern boiler and turbine materials, and other
new solutions making possible an efficiency of the plant not less than 48%;
hydraulic - replacement of worn components by modernized ones increasing efficiency and power, introduction
of modern automatic control systems.
2. Regional power system and power station companies with the enlistment of mamffacturing plants and
industry research and design organizations:
to organize in 1999-2000 an inspection of the technical condition of power equipment;
to determine from the inspection results the possibility of prolonging the life of the power-generating units
that have exhausted their life: to work out the concept of prolonging life, including a list of priority measures providing
reliable operation of power stations;
on the basis of the technical suggestions of manufacturing plants and industry technical organizations, to
work out variants of replacing the existing equipment both by analogous and fundamentally new equipment in which
modern technologies are used and to determine the cost effectiveness of these variants;
to form a long-term program of modernization for the period up to 2005 (I stage) and 2010 (II stage) on the

Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 11, pp. 4-5, November, 1999.

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