Structural Composition of Department

• Turbine Aerodynamics Laboratory
• Laboratory of Gas Turbine and Combined-Cycle Plants
• Laboratory of Compressor Units, Air Handling and Noise Suppression for Power Generating Equipment

Main Activities of the Department

• Experimental and design researches of models for low pressure flow parts on test beds.
• Heat measurement for equipment of power plants and their processing.
• Designing of cooling systems for nozzle and rotor blades, rotors and stays of new turbines.
• Design assessment of service life for elements of existing and modernized gas turbine plants.
• Experimental research of hydraulics and thermal condition of cooled turbine blades on test beds.
• Experimental research of thermohydraulic characteristics of main elements of fluidized bed and turbine in full-scale conditions. Designing, production and testing of gas turbine plant air boilers.
• Research of exhaust lines of gas turbine plants and CCGT on test beds and in full-scale conditions.
• Development of gas flow stabilization methods.
• Design and production of exhaust line elements of gas turbine plant and CCGT.
• Design and production of air inlet path elements of gas turbine plants including volutes. Assessment of gas turbine plant projects.
• Development of technical solutions for combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) of various types.
• Feasibility studies for CCGT construction.
• Design of thermal circuits for CCGT.
• Development of initial requirements for main thermal and mechanical equipment for CCGT.
• Selection of main and auxiliary thermal and mechanical equipment of CCGT and gas turbine plants and design of non-standard equipment including heat-exchanging equipment and silencers.
• Detailed thermal calculations with determination of energy and technical and economic indices of CCGT at design and off-design modes.
• Evaluation of environmental characteristics (noise levels and heat emission) of thermal and mechanical equipment of CCGT.
• Designing, production and installation of noise and heat insulation of thermal and mechanical equipment of full-scale CCGT.
• Development of import substitution lines and programs related to CCGT and gas turbine plants.