OREANDA-NEWS. November 21, 2011. Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Oleg Morozov, First Deputy Chairman of the RF State Duma, visited the engine plant of OJSC KAMAZ, where they were shown KAMAZ’s first mini thermal power plant.

During the visit, the high guests were accompanied by Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, RT Minister of Economy, Ravil Zaripov, RT Minister of Industry and Trade, Vasil Shaykhraziev, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny. The delegation was also accompanied by KAMAZ’s managers: Sergey Kogogin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ, his deputies and top managers of the enterprise.

KAMAZ’s first mini thermal power station is designed to generate electricity and heat in one of the buildings of the engine plant, where units of these stations will be assembled and tested. It can produce 100 kW/h of electricity and 128 kW/h of heat energy. The thermal power plant is designed on the basis of a generating set with a KAMAZ inexpensive gas engine standardized for serial transport models. Heat generated with the engine and its exhaust gases during operation is transmitted to a customer in the form of hot water heated to 80-90ºC with the help of two installed tubular heat exchangers. The structure is equipped with a container, gas pipes, pipes for heated water. In the container are temperature control systems, alarm systems with a gas analyzer and fire-extinguisher systems.

The development of the mini thermal power station is a joint project of OJSC KAMAZ and Kazan’s engineering company in the sphere of small-scale power generation OOO Alfa Energy which performed calculations, prepared a draft, technical documentation, and also participated in the installation of the first experiment mini thermal power station. All technical documents will be given to KAMAZ which can use them developing the following projects.

Mini thermal power plants will become a new product for KAMAZ. They can be used in various sectors of our country, because small-sized plants can produce electricity and heat for facilities that require an independent source of heat and electricity, especially as because operation of gas plants is cheaper than that of similar diesel stations.