AERODYNAMICS DEPARTMENT AIDS TURBINE BUILDERS; DEVELOP NEW TURBOPUMP

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 596
• Publication Date: November 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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PERFORM EXPERIMENTAL WORK FOR PLANT -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 23 Aug 50
The Department of Aerodynamics of the Leningrad Polytechnicsl Institute
is carrying out an experimental project for the Leningrad Plant imeni Stalin.
'NEW TURBOPUMP GOES INFO PRODUCTION -- Riga9 Sovetskaya Latviya~ 15 Aug 50
The Riga Turbine Machinery plant has turned to the. production of a new com-
plex turbopump~ the PT-29-200. Designed to feed water to boilersl the unit con-
- sists of a high-pressure pump and a steam turbine, which drives it. The steam
turbine is the first one to be built in a Latvian plant.
The first models of these turbopumps will be sent to the Kuybyshev and Ore-
khovo-Zuyevo power stations.
Moscow, Trud1 15 Aug 50
The Riga Turbine Machinery has begun series production of a 1,000-kilowatt
hydroturbine. Machines of the series will be.sent to rural; interkolkhozl and
rayon hydroelectric stations.
,RECEIVP EFFORTS PUT PLANT ON PROFIT BASIS -- M6scowj Pravda', 26 Aug 50 1
The plant party committee and the shop party orge,nizatibns of the Leningrad
Kirov Plant imeni Lenin have initiated a campaign to increase the useful life of
machine tools through greater care in operation and more rigorous maintenance sched-
ules. So Earl 820 machinists are participating in the effort.
In the plant's open-hearth section, prcduction is growin,; from month to months.
with 70-80 percent of the smelting being carried out under the so-called high-speed
method. This high-speed method has brought about a considerable increase over the
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AERODYNAMICS DEPARTMENT AIDS TURBINE BUILDERS;
DEVELOP NEW.TURBOpUMP" '
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prewar productivity of open-hearth furnaces, saved hundreds of tons of fuel oil,
and by comparison with last year, has reduced the cost of a one-ton ingot by 138
rubles and the cc+st of a tor, of shaped casting by 620 rubles. Aided by the Poly-
technical Institute imeni Kalinin, the plant saved over one million rubles' worth
of metal while competing with the Novo-Kramatorak Plant and some Moscow plants.
By comparison with last year, the output of turbines and air blowers was
doubled during the first half of 1950. The planned turnover of working capital
was exceeded, while the cost of production was reduced 19.5 percent during 5
months of this year. The plant began to run at a profit.
An active plant party committee has come to the aid of innovators whose sug-
gestions often went the long way through the design section to be "studied" and
"ironed out." Since this procedure dampened the enthusiasm of the innovators, the
committee obliged the chief designer to give assurances that innovators' sugges-
tions would receive prompt consideration and translation into action. Now, the
more important and valuable suggestions are taken up before the sessions of the
plant technical council.
Various methods are employed in the dissemination of approved suggestions.
Agitators play an active role; they include Stakl7enovites, foremen, and engineers
in their ranks. A lecture group, comprising the pla.nt's most highly qualified en-
gineers and scientists of the city, meets regularly. During the past year, 68 lec-
tures on technical subjects were delivered.
Stakhanovites, foremen, and engineers make frequent excursions through other
Leningrad plants to learn new technological methods. This year, 28 such excur-
sions were made, while other enterprises visited the Kirov Plant imeni Lenin, to
demonstrate their methods. In the turbine shop, for example, a machinist from
the Metal Plant imeni Stalin recently gave instruct~.ons in high-speed cutting
methods.
Display stands are widely used, illustrating foundry tools, precision-casting
methods, cold-working methods, and other subjects. Movies on technical subjects
are frequently shown at the plant. There is an extensive program of technical
studies, including special foremen's courses. An affiliate of the evening tekhni-
kum has been started at the plant.
CUT SMELTING TIME, SAVE STEEL -- Moscowy Izvestiya, 19 Aug 50
The Leningrad Nevskiy Plant imeni Lenin has reduced the time for smelting
a batch of metal in its electric furnaces 30 minutes below the norm, and has
saved hundreds of tons of steel in excess of the plan.
BUII.D MACHINES FROM SAVED MATERIALS -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 23 Aug 50
The Sverdlovsk Ural Turbomotor Plant has been producing in excess of the plan
during the past 12 months, while it is building every fifth aggregate from saved
materials.
Hundreds of machinists are applying high-speed cutting methods. A special
cutter and fitting designed and built et the plant?luive made it possible to ma-
chine disks on one machine tool, taking only 4 hours for the operation. Under
the old method, this operation took 32 hours, and two machine tools had to be
used.
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