Cherepets SDPP↓
Overall performance of JSC “Cherepets SDPP”
The JSC Cherepets SDPP with the capacity of 1500 MW is part of the Unified Energy System of the European territory of Russia.
JSC Cherepets SDPP is the first in Europe powerful steam-turbine electric power plant of extra-high pressure. This electric power plant was to be positioned near the mines of the Moscow Region Coal Basin south-westward Tula – to cover the fast-growing loads of the electric power consumers located within the areas of Moscow, Tula, Oryol, Bryansk and Kaluga Regions.
On 23 November, 1948, the Engineering Board of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations approved of the project specification for the Cherepets Electric Power Station with the capacity of 300 thou. kW with two units of 150 thou. kW each – based on extra-high steam parameters of 170 atmospheres and 550°Ñ. That decision raised the development of heat power plants up to a new, higher degree – with changing-over to a wider use of extra-high parameters of steam and large single capacities using block design solutions, which had for the Russian power-generation industry a truly historic importance.
The project specifications for the Cherepets SDPP were designed by the Moscow branch of the Teploproject Institute under the management of Vasily Dmitriyevich Varaksin, the Project Chief Engineer. The construction works were carried out by the Mosenergostroy Group with engagement of some specialized organizations of the former USSR Ministry of Electric Power Stations.
Within a short time period the power-plant industry experts solved a number of complicated engineering problems, created the equipment unique in terms of capacity and parameters: boiler units, steam turbines, generators, feed-pumps, electric motors, air-break high-voltage switches, transformers, high-voltage switchgears and control gears. Metal-makers created and mastered new austenite heat-resistant grades of steel for production of steam pipelines, attachments, parts and assembly units of turbines and boiler units.