COMPLETE FIRST HYDOGENERATOR, TURBINE FOR TSIMLYANSKAYA GES; BUILD TRANSFORMERS, GENERATORS FOR PROJECTS

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• Publication Date: November 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COMPLETE FIRST RYDROGENERATOR TURBINE FOR TSIMLYANSKAYA GES;
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COMPLETE FIRST TSIMLYANSKAYA RYDROGENERATOR -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
1 Jun 51
Yesterday, the Leningrad Elektrosila Plant imeni S. M. Kirov completed the
first 40,000-kilowatt hydrogenerator for the Tsimlyanskaya GES project. The
umbrella-shaped hydrogenerator is superior to foreign models and has a coeffi-
cient of efficiency up to 0.97. The plant will build two more powerful hydro-
generators for the Tsimlyanskaya project in the second half of 1951.
"Tae second g--aerator will be ready in July, and the third in August."
gates of this
power formerly took 4-5 month. to build. Designers of the EJaktraei]a
Leningradskaya Pravda, 8 Jun 51
The Leningrad Elektrosila Plant has started snipping units of the first
hydrogenerator to the Tsimlyanskaya GES project. The largest unit o,: the machine,
the oil tank, has already been shipped. The shaft of the hydrogenerator is at the
Leningrad Metal Plant imeni Stalin, and it will be shipped to the project after
it is coupled with the turbine shaft.
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The rotor s:,aft for the second hydrogenerator was machined in 102 hours in-
stead of the 230 hours allotted by the norm. Assembly of the rotor spokes has
started.
ORDEPS FOR PROJECTS WOULD TAKE 9 YEARS AT PRESENT RATE -- Leningradskaya Pravda,
14 Jun 51
Five years ago, the Leningrad Metal Plant imeni Stalin assembled the first
high-pressure 100-kilowatt turbine of its kind. Electric power machine building
is the leading industrial activity in Leningrad, which is the largest center of
skilled machine builders in the USSR. The leading plants in the electric power
machine building industry in Leningrad are the Metal Plant imeni Stalin and the
Elektrosila Plant.
The Metal Plant imeni Stalin has developed improved machines in the past
5 years, and has organized the production of a whole series of high-pressure
turbines; a 50,000-kilowatt turbine, a 25,000-kilowatt heating turbine, and a
single-cylinder 25,000-kilowatt turbine with two regulating steam bleeders --
industrial and heating. Each of these machine types is a new achievement both
in USSR and in world steam turbine building practice.
In the postwar period, the Elektrosila Plant has designed and produced
dozens of new machines: powerful hydrogenerators and turbogenerators with hydro-
gen cooling, high-frequency contactors, magnetic stations, and motors for earth-
digging machines and for the coal, petroleum, and metallurgical industries. At
present, the Elektrosila Plant is producing four times as many machines as it did
before the war.
However, everything accomplished by these plan-3 is only a fraction of what
remains to be done, for the hydroelectric and canal construction projects pose
graver and more complex problems for the plants. The Leningrad plants must, in
an unprecedentedly short time, plan and build machines hitherto unknown to the
electric power machine building industry.
The accomplishment of the Elektrosila Plant in constructing the first hydro-
generator for the Tsimlyanskaya GES project in an unprecedentedly short time, and
the achievement of the Leningrad Metal Plant in machining and assembling the first
turbine for the project show what can be done. Such initiative should be promptly
encouraged and supported.
At the Leningrad Metal Plant, special sections, such as the rotor section,
the diaphragm section, the hydraulic section, and others, were organized, thus
opening new horizons for innovators.
However, it is obvious that the existing technology of production in many
sections where turbines and hydrogenerators are being constructed has become
outmoded in the face of the problem of building machines for the construction
projects. Under existing conditions, it would take the Leningrad Metal Plant
9 years to make all the turbines for the Kuybyshev GES project, but they must be
completed in 4-5 years. The same can be said of the Elektrosi--a Plant.
Engineers, technicians, and workers must take all possible measures to
mechanize labor-consuming tasks, and must adopt high-speed metal-cutting methods
more rapidlj.
MECHANIZE TASKS IN HYDROGENERATOR PRODL;,TION -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 22 Jun 51
Many technological improvements have been introduced in the insulation shop
of the Leningrad Elektrosila Plant. Formerly, the pressing of stator cores was
a labor-consuming.task. The copper cores, assembled and insulated in packs of
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various sizes, had to be pressed by hand on screw presses. The mechanization
shop built a three-block steam-hydraulic press which greatly lightened the task
of the insulation shop. Then a whole series of these presses were put out, not
with three, but with 15 blocks. The winding cores of the first hydrogenerator
for the Tsimlyanskaya GES project were pressed on the new machines.
The mechanization shop is now working on a special machine tool for putting
the frame insulation on core windings of hydrogenerators. This machine tool will
be put into operation in July. The shop has also constructed a straightening-
bending roller press for making sheet steel parts for hydrogenerators. Installa-
tion of one of these presses in the hvdrogenerator building is now being completed.
A copper-bending press will also be set up in this building.
SHELVE INNOVATIONS AT ELECTRICAL PLANT -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 6 Jun 51
The Leningrad Elektroapparat Plant saved more than one million rubles in
the first 4 months of 1951 by adopting innovations. However, some innovations
have been shelved for years because the innovator was not given-help in making
sketches and models. A proposal made by A. Sobolevskiy in March?1951that would
have saved many screws, nuts, and bolts and many man-hours of labor has not yet
been acted upon.
Innovations are not circulated and publicized, even though the plant has a
Technical Information Bureau. Sometimes improvements adopted in one shop are
not known in the next shop. For instance, shop No 13 built a cart for lifting,
conveying, and mounting heavy dies, which enables one man to handle the job;
but in the machine shop, it takes four men to do the same job.
The plant management and the party bureau do not devote enough attention to
innovations ancl inventions, and should make greater demands on the Bureau of
Innovations and Inventions and the Technical Division.'
DEVELOPS NEW EQUIPMENT -- Moscow, Pravda, 9 Jun 51
The Elektroapperat Plant is making experimental models of instrument trans-
formers, disconnecting switches, switches, and other equipment.
SHIPS TRANSFORMERS TO PROJECTS -- Yerevan, Kommeunist, 26 May 51
The Yerevan Electrical Machine Building Plant shipped 69 transformers to the
projects on 25 May.
The plant is organizing the output of new, morL powerful transformers, which
it will ship to the Volga-Don Canal and Stalingrad GES projects during the third
quarter.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 24 Jun 51
The Yerevan Electrical Machine Building Plant has shipped five consignments
of transformers to the projects this year, all ahead of time.
Yerevan, Kommunist, 5 Jul 51
The Yerevan Electrical Machine Building Plant has completed its half-year
plan for the projects ahead of time. The plant has shipped dozens of trans-
formers to the Kuybyshev GES, Stalingrad GES, and Volga-Don Canal projects on
third and fourth quarter orders. The plant has shipped the first consignment of
114-560/6 power transformers to the Tsimlynr"ksya GES project.
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PLANT COMPLETES 6-MONTH ?LAN, SETS NEW GOALS -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya,
6 Jun 51
The Yerevan Electrotechnicel Iiant has completed its half-year plan ahead
of time. The plant has organized additional output of generators for the South
Ukrainian and North Crimean Canal projects from materials saved.
Yerevan, Kommunist, 6 Jul 51
The Yerevan Electrotechnical Plant has increased labor productivity 17.7
percent and reduced production cost of finished products 28.6 percept. By saving
raw materials, electric power, and auxiliary materials, the plant has accumulated
1,103,000 rubles above the plan and improved the quality of its products. It has
organized the production of I-10/4 and I-11/4 electric motors. All orders for
the South Ukrainian and North Crimean Canal projects have been filled ahead of
time.
Entering into socialist competition with the Baku Electrical Machinery
Plant, plant workers have assumed the following obligations:
To fill all orders for the projects ahead of time and with high-quality
production.
To create a stockpile for the projects, and save enough basic and auxiliary
materials, electric power, and fuel each quarter to make ten generators.
To f-lfill the 1951 productior plan by 7 November, and to make a considerable
quantity of electric motors and transformers above the plan.
TO SERIES-PRODUCE TRANSFORMER, MOTOR -- Yerevan, Kommunist, 26 Jun "l
The Baku Electrical Machinery Plant is preparing to series-produce TM-50
transformers and AO 51/4 electric motors in addition to its regular production.
SHIPS EQUIPMENT TO PROJECTS -- Moscow, Tru, 6 Jun 51
The Baku Electrical Machinery Plant has shipped its first consignment of
electric motors to the Volga-Don Canal project. The plant recently shipped 14
transformers to this project. Large consigmients of transformers have been
shipped to the Kuybyshev and Stalingrad GES projects, and electric motors have
been sent to the Main Turkmen Canal project.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 26 Jun 51
The Baku Electrical Machinery Plant has shipped 22 consignments of powerful
transformers and electric motors to the projets, and has four more consignments
ready for shipment. These consignments are part cf the fourth quarter 1;51 pro- -
duction.
Yerevan, Kommunist, 5 Jul 51
The Baku Electrical Machinery Plant has considerably exceeded the half-y:ar
plan for orders for the projects. The order for the Volga-Don Canal project was
exceeded by 178.2 percent, the order for the Stalingrad GES project by 122.6
percent, and the order for the.South Crimean Canal project by 210 percent. The
plant exceeded plans for the projects by an average of 44 percent. It is suc-
cessfully organizing the production of TM-50 transformers and AO-51/4 electric
motors,
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SHIPS LARGE TRAdSFORMERS TO PROJECTS -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 13 Jun 51
The Moscow Transformer Plant has shipped a 20,000-kilowatt transformer to
the Volga-Don Canal'project, and is preparing to send a similar transformer to
the Stalingrad GES project.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 2 Jul 51
The Moscow Transformer Plant has shipped three power transformers to the
Volga-Don Canal project, and has started shipment of 40 transformers to the
Tsimlyanskaya GES project.
DEVELOP NEW TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 9 Jun 51
The-Kharkov Electrical Installation Equipment Plant makes transformer sub-
stations which are used on the Volga-Don Canal project. Plant engineers and
designers are working on a modernized substation which uses 20-25 percent less
metal than the present model. The knife-switch block and the fuses will be
designed more efficiently, thus cutting the consumption of n..:rferrous metals
in half. nn experimental model of the substation will be ready in July 1951.
Distributing apparatus will be adapted so that 20 welding machines can be
connected to the uubstation simultaneously.
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