SOVIET INDUSTRIES TO SAVE MORE FUEL

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• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
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• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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In reporting their achievements to Stalin, additional obligations, to be
fulfilled by the end of 1951, were assumed as follows. extraction of 14 million
tons of coal, extraction of 2.2 million tons of petroleum, and the generation
of 1+.72 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power.
Operators of open-hearth furnaces in recent years have steadily decreased
their fuel consumption in smelting steel. Standard fuel consumption per ton
of steel was reduced from 260 kilograms in 1946 to 220 kilograms in 1949 and
to 211 kilograms in the third quarter of 1950. Improvement in the technological
indexes in the operation of open-hearth furnacea and the constant increase in
the amount of steel produced per square foot of the furnace hearth have con-
tributed toward this achievement.
The USSR railroad workers reduced fuel consumption in steam locomotives
and diesel locomotives in the third quarter of 1950 7.5 percent below that of
the third quarter of 1949 and 16 percent below that of the third quarter of 1948.
By introducing new techniques and more powerful equipment and by moderniz-
ing existing electric power stations, electric power plants of the ministry
reduced fuel consumption 9.2 percent below the prewar level for the generation
of one kilowatt-hour of electric power. The measures which they adopted to
effect this fuel reduction saved the country several?million tons of fuel in
1950 alone.
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SOVIET TNDUSIRIES TO SAVE MORE FUEL
Coal, petroleum, and electric-power workers played a significant role
in the completion of the Fourth Five-Year Plan. Already by 11 December
1950,:mtxers of the Ministry of the Coal Industry had completed the 1950
plan for coal output, and the Donbass contributed 10 percent more than its
prewar achievement to this success. The enterprises of the petroleum indus-
try completed the 1950 plan by 10 December 1950. The electric power stations
of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations completed their yearly quota for
the generation of electric. power. by 22 December 1950, including a 40-percent
increase over their prewar level for power stations in areas which suffered
war damage.
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CONFIDENTIA.
Even though the coal industry exceeded the 1950 plan for coal outpu'_ and
asaured the Soviet economy of a steady supply, the quality of the coal
delivered was not always satisfactory. The fines content of run-of-tl'e-mine
coal, as well as its ash content, had. increased and, in the case of +.ne
Donbass, the coal.-ash content was higher than the 1940 level.
In 1951, miners must completely satisfy the requirements ~f he national
economy in Donets coking, gas, and long-flame coal as well as large-and medium-
size anthracite coal; Kuznetsk.coking and screened coal; and Karaganda bitumi-
nous coal, bearing In mind that the productivity of many industrial installations
will be increased by these coals and. their fuel-consumption norms will be
decreased.
in 1951, it is necessary to intensify efforts to lower the ash content.of
all coals, in particular, those of the Donbass. The fines content =at also
be sharply reduced in run-of-tbe-mines coal and shales, particularly in cutting
the coal or shale from the mine face, but also in transporting and loading it
onto _railroad cars.
Organizations of the local fuel industry must increase the production of
peat briquettes and extend the consumption of peat more widely in enterprises.
If peat, shale, waste products of coal cleaning, wood and combustible-waste
products of industry and agriculture are utilized in the local areas where they
are found, these areas will be able to dispense with hundreds of thousands of
tons of fuel which would have to be transported from a distance.
Although industry and transportation have saved considerable fuel, individ-
ual enterprises are consuming more raw materials, fuel, and electric power than
the established norm. Checks on enterprises carried out by Gosinspektsiya of
the Gossnab USSR indicate that the chief faults in the use of fuel are as
foLl.ows; nonobservance of established methods for operating equipment; unsatis-
factory condition of aggregates, using fuel and heat; inadequate operation of
new-technique small: and medium-sized electrical installations.
The possibilities for saving fuel are far from exhausted in railroad
transport. An appreciable saving could be achieved by better utilization of
locomotives and an extension of the practice of handling above-normal-weight
trains. A great saving could also be effected by increasing the number of
locomotives equipped with water-treating installations and heat insulation.
Power workers most continue to save fuel in 1951 by full utilization of
heating installations which in many heating plants do not carry a full load and
operate inefficiently. Construction of heating networks must be speeded up,
bearing in mind that a delay in supplying cities and enterprises with heat will
cause greatly excessive consumption of fuel.
Open-hearth-furnace workers in metallurgical plants and machine-building
plants meat further increase automatic operations of the furnaces, equipping
them with gauges and control instruments, introducing as much as possible light
refractory material, and completely eliminating unplanned delays in smelting in
which a large amount of fuel is still consumed. It is also extremely important
to increase the use of waste gases from open-hearth, heating, thermal, cementa-
tion and other types of industrial furnaces. Use of these gases will save the
country hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel.
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