OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2010. The new gas turbine unit ran for 72 hours under the nominal load of 16 MW.

In the course of tests, the compressor and gas turbine were synchronized and operated in a number of modes. After the test run of GTPP-16PA and acknowledgement of equipment performance, the Rostekhnadzor Department for the Perm Territory signed the gas turbine unit test certificate. The main equipment and control system operation did not call for any comments. This 72-hour test is an obligatory phase of power equipment testing before commissioning.

Installation of the new gas turbine unit and all associated infrastructure facilities of HPP-13 was completed this spring. Recent months were dedicated to commissioning of the gas turbine unit which included performance tests of all mechanisms, connections, power lines and control assemblies of the unit - a total of some hundreds of equipment units.

Perm HPP-13 (Generation Urals Division of IES-Holding) is located in the right-bank part of the city, in a residential district of Gayva. The power plant supplies electric energy to a number of local industrial companies and social facilities, and ensures heat supply to Gayva households. Today the installed electrical capacity of the plant is 18 MW, its heat capacity is 332.2 GCal/h.

Thanks to implementation of Garnet investment project, the plant's installed electrical capacity will grow from 18 to 34 MW. The turbine unit commissioning with heat recovery will let more than double the annual power output. The thermal capacity of the new equipment is 18 GCal/h. The unit parameters will ensure its operation of up to 8,000 hours per year and cover the basic (summer) hot water supply thermal load with maximum possible power production.

It is worth mentioning that the gas turbine unit installed at HPP-13 is manufactured by OJSC Aviadvigatel, a local engine company. In such a way, this investment project will both enhance the power budget of the Perm Territory and contribute to the domestic power plant engineering.

Currently, Perm HPP-13 is preparing documents for commissioning of the new equipment.