Turbines and ancillary equipment. (1989)

Panorama of the night city.

Dam on a mountain river.

Transformer station.

The Dnieper dam, the monument to V.I. Lenin in the foreground.

Alternating frames with dams of various hydroelectric power plants.

Views of Kharkiv.

Alternating frames with views of cities and landscapes of Argentina.

Photos of the Salto Grande hydroelectric power plant in Argentina.

Hydro turbines of the Salto Grande hydroelectric power station.

Turbines at the HPP were supplied by the Kharkiv Turbine Plant.

The administrative building of the Kharkiv Turbine Plant.

A turbine for hydroelectric power plants is being assembled.

The plant produces m thermal and hydraulic turbines.

Every third Soviet turbine was created at this plant.

Alternation of personnel with modern machines in the production of turbines.

Production of turbines for a dam in Piedro del Aguila Argentina.

The scheme of cooperation with design and trade organizations of Argentina.

The technical design of hydro turbines for the Piedro del Aguila hydroelectric power plant was carried out by the design bureau of the Kharkiv Turbine Plant.

The designer of the factory behind the kulmans.

Developer meetings when creating turbines.

The developed turbine model must meet all the stated requirements of the customer.

The constructed model of the impeller must be tested in the gas turbine laboratory of the plant.

View of the modern laboratory stands.

Tests are a wide range of computational and experimental work, the purpose of which is to identify and fully exploit the potential of the flow part of the turbine.

During acceptance tests, in the presence of the customer, all characteristics of the impeller model are checked repeatedly in various modes.

The tests showed that the efficiency of the turbine for Piedro del Aguila was 95.5%.

The contract provided for the verification of the results of model tests in a neutral laboratory in the city of Lausanne.

The customer company refused this check.

The trials are over.

Drawings go into production, which begins with the input control of materials.

Samples of materials are sent to the central laboratory of the plant.

The express analyzer determines the chemical composition of steel billets.

In the mechanical laboratory, materials are checked for physical parameters.

After all the parts of the guide device are manufactured, a control assembly is to be carried out.

This is a responsible check of the manufacturing accuracy of all turbine parts in the complex.

The designers of the plant for the first time in hydro-turbo construction installed devices on each blade of the guide device that prevent an emergency situation.

Alternating frames with turbine parts.

A cartoon explaining the operation of such a device.

Manufacture of the first components for a hydraulic machine for Argentina.

Details are being welded.

Nearby, the turbine shaft is being processed on the site.

The accuracy class of manufacturing in this area is higher than in the manufacture of watches.

Manufacturing of the impeller blade.

Gas cutting machine.

For the manufacture of blades, not blade castings are used, but rolled sheets.

Now we need to give the blades a complex monotonously curved surface.

Such an operation for the turbine plant is performed at the Atommash plant in Volgodonsk.

The original technologies developed at the Kharkov Turbine Plant dramatically reduce the time of turbine manufacturing.

Instead of long-term processing, the blades are stamped on a special press.

The final grinding gives the blades a complete geometric similarity of the model.

Here, the quality of the stamped blade is finally checked.

In order for the turbine to work steadily, without vibration, the weight of each of the 16 blades must be exactly the same.

The management of the enterprise together with the customer discusses the manufactured turbine.

Each point marked on the surface of the blade must correspond to the marks of the np model.

Alternation of personnel with designers, workers and customers.

Mechanical processing of the hub.

The process of assembling the hub from the blades.

All blades should stand at the same angle at the same distance from each other.

Electric arc welding of the impeller.

The entire welding process is under constant automatic control.

It remains to weld both halves of the rim to the blades.

In order to remove the residual stress that occurs in the metal during welding, the impeller will be subjected to heat treatment in a specially constructed shaft furnace.

Loading the impeller into the shaft furnace.

Last check of the welds.

The final surface treatment is done not only for beauty.

High surface cleanliness contributes to the efficient operation of the turbine.

The map shows the transportation of the turbine to the customer.

Photos of the rivers of Argentina.