OREANDA-NEWS. December 19, 2012. Power Machines OJSC has become the winner of the Time of Innovations 2012 national prize in the Innovation Active Company nomination in the Transport and Mechanical Engineering category for the project of a Series of state-of-the-art 330 MW steam turbines with jet-type high-pressure cylinder flow paths. 

Innovative design solutions for 330 MW steam turbines to be used both when supplying new turbines and upgrading the existing equipment of TPPs are presented in the power engineering group's project.

At present the project has been implemented in the design of 330 MW steam turbines at a number of power plants in Russia: Cherepovetskaya TPP, Ryazanskaya TPP, Karmanovskaya TPP, as well as abroad: in Vietnam at Uong-Bi TPP and in Belarus at Lukomlskaya TPP.  These innovative solutions has allowed to improve efficiency of the turbine plants, reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions (CO2) to the atmosphere, obtain additional capacity as well as increase the reliability and service life of the turbines.

A grand ceremony of awarding winners of the Time of Innovations 2012 prize took place on November 28, 2012 in President-Hotel, Moscow.

In 2011 Power Machines OJSC won the prize in the Best Innovation Implementation Project nomination in the Transport and Mechanical Engineering category by submitting to the competition its project for the Development and Manufacture of a 225 MW Fully Air-cooled Turbogenerator.