Pridneprovskaya TPP (Dnepropetrovsk region)

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Pridneprovska TPP is a large regional thermal power plant that provides energy and heat to the Dnipropetrovsk region. It is located in the suburbs of the city of Dnipro (formerly Dnepropetrovsk) on the left bank of the river of the same name. The installed capacity is 1765 MW.

Creation

In 1951, to the west of the Cossack village of Tsapli, the construction of the Dnieper thermal power plant in Ukraine, which was the most powerful in the USSR, began. Simultaneously with the production units, the town of power engineers Pridneprovsk was built.

The first power unit with a capacity of 100 MW was launched in 1954. Over the course of several years, the development of the station took place due to the construction of blocks of the same capacity: three of them were completed in 1955, one each in 1957 and 1958. At the same time, a new VKT-100 turbine was installed at units No. 5 and No. 6, which reduced fuel consumption by 6% compared to previous samples.

Expansion

In 1959, the first unit with increased capacity was put into operation at the Pridneprovskaya TPP. Power unit No. 7 was the first in the USSR capable of delivering 150 MW. Similar blocks No. 8 and No. 9 were launched next(1960), No. 10 (1961). Turbine unit No. 11 (1963) had a record power of 300 MW. During 1964-1966, two facilities of 300 MW each were commissioned, which brought the total capacity of the station to 2400 MW. This was four times higher than the capabilities of DneproGES.

Follow-up development

In the period from 1979 to 1983, due to the unsatisfactory technical condition of the equipment, the first six units were decommissioned. Also, in the future, due to the wear of the turbines, the power of units No. 11-14 was reduced from 300 to 285 MW.

In the interval between 1980 and 1986, units No. 7-10 were reconstructed at the Pridneprovskaya TPP. They have the ability to work in a heating mode, thanks to which the station has become a heat supplier to the Pridneprovsky microdistrict and the left bank of the Dnieper. In 2011, the modernization of block No. 11 was completed with the installation of a new K-310 cogeneration turbine capable of producing 310 MW. Blocks 12 and 14 were mothballed as of the early 2010s.

Today, the company employs more than 1100 people. They are mostly residents of Pridneprovsk (a residential area of the Dnieper, founded in the 1950s as a city of power engineers).

Problems and Solutions

Due to the conflict in the Donbas at the beginning of 2017, the Prydniprovska TPP was shut down due to a shortage of coal. The thermal power plant was designed to use Donbass anthracite. Subsequently, they began to transfer it to gas, but during the crisis with the supply of this type of fuel from Russia, they returned to consumptioncoal. Attempts to use Australian and South African raw materials were considered unsuccessful due to excessively high cost and inconsistency with a number of characteristics.

In the spring of 2017, the owner of the Dniproenergo station decided to transfer it to the use of gas group coal, which would avoid the need to purchase anthracite, the production capacity of which ended up on the territory of the DPR. By the beginning of the heating season 2017/2018, it is planned to transfer two power units with a capacity of 150 MW each, and it is planned to re-equip all the equipment by the next heating season.

Activities

Pridniprovska TPP implements:

• Production, supply, transmission, purchase, sale of electric and thermal energy in Ukraine and abroad.
• Operation of power plants, dams, substations, transmission lines and various structures.
• Organization and implementation of scientific and applied research and development work, the introduction of technical, technological and other developments.
• Development of mineral deposits, their processing, drilling of wells, land reclamation and design work.

The company also carries out work on installation, dismantling, start-up and adjustment, electrical measurements and testing, maintenance and repair of production equipment, including electrical installations above 1000 V. Pridneprovskaya TPP address: 49112, Dnipropetrovsk region, Dnipro city, Gavanskaya street -1.

Environmental Issues

Thermal power plantPridneprovskaya, which is part of the structure of PJSC "Dneproenergo", is the main pollutant of the environment in the Dnipro region. Taking into account the great height of the pipes (120-250 m) of the main sources of emissions, the large amount of pollution (from 80,000 to 173,000 tons annually), the insufficient efficiency of cleaning emissions, dust and gas pollution of the atmosphere extends to tens, and under certain hydrometeorological conditions, to hundreds of kilometers from power plant emission sources.