Zuevskaya experimental cogeneration plant

Over 80 years of its existence, the company twice changed its production status. In accordance with this, at different periods of its history, the power station was officially called differently. First it was the Zuevskaya State District Power Plant (until 1975), then the Zuevskaya TPP VTI, and in the last period, after the collapse of the USSR , the Zuevskaya TPP. The most important period for the enterprise was the first period when the station made a significant contribution to the provision of electricity to Donbass.

Zuevskaya State District Power Station

The decision to build the Zuevskaya state district power station — the Zuevskaya state district power station — was adopted by the USSR government in 1929 as an addition to the GOELRO plan .

The construction of the station began in 1930 ^[1] .

The station gave the first electric current in 1931, and in 1932 the first stage of the power plant with a total capacity of 150 MW was put into operation ^[1] .

In 1937, the second stage of the state district power station with a capacity of 100 MW was commissioned ^[1] .

In 1939, the third stage of the state district power station was commissioned - a turbine with a capacity of 100 MW, and the Zuevskaya state district power station reached its design capacity. In the same 1939, GRES was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor ^[1] . At that time, the station was the first power plant in the USSR ; since March 1940, it became the 2nd, after reaching its design capacity at the Novomoskovsk State District Power Plant . Donbass received 45% of the consumed electricity from Zuevskaya state district power station.

At the beginning of World War II, the power plant was stopped, the reservoir was drained, the equipment was partially dismantled and transported to the rear. During the two-year occupation of Zugres, the Germans tried to rebuild the station. They did not succeed, and when fleeing the city (late August – early September 1943), part of the power plant’s facilities with equipment were blown up by them ^[1] .

The restoration of the state district power station began in 1943, immediately after the liberation of Zugres by Soviet troops ^[1] .

In January 1944, the first turbine ^[2] (50 MW) and two boilers ^[3] were commissioned. The complete restoration and partial reconstruction of the power plant took another 2.5 years. With the launch in June 1946 of a 100 MW turbo-generator, Zuevskaya State District Power Plant reached its pre-war design capacity ^[4] .

Subsequently, the power of the station was increased to 380 MW ^[1] .

The decision to close the Zuevskaya state district power station was made in 1974.

By 1977, the power plant had exhausted its production resource. In 1978, on the basis of the station that was closed, a new enterprise was created - Zuevskaya TPP VTI - the scientific and technical laboratory of the All-Union Thermotechnical Institute named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky ^[1] .

Zuevskaya TPP VTI

Zuevskaya TPP VTI was a successful project to create a new demanded enterprise on the basis of a closed power plant, which simultaneously solved the social and technical problems associated with the closure of Zuevskaya state district power station. The station was overhauled. Worn-out power units of Zuevskaya state district power station dismantled. New equipment was installed: boilers BKZ-120-100 (high pressure) and P-63 (ultra-high pressure), steam turbine PT-12-90. The enterprise was transferred from coal to gas and fuel oil. The station was still an electricity generating company, but of regional significance. The all-Union significance has now acquired the stand base of the Zuevskaya State District Power Plant. Experimental stands were installed to study the thermophysical and water-chemical processes at nuclear and thermal stations in order to create effective technologies and equipment for localizing accidents at nuclear power plants and thermal power plants, gasification stands (combined layer gasifier - KSG) and solid fuel explosives. Poster studies were carried out by VTI and other research institutes of the USSR . By the time of the collapse of the USSR, there were already 58 stands at the Zuevskaya TPP VTI, ready for implementation in the energy industry, a solid scientific and technical base was created.

With the collapse of the USSR, union financing of the project ceased. The station passed into the state property of Ukraine , under the control of the Ministry of Energy . In 1996, it was decided to close the Zuevskaya TPP VTI. The CHPP operated until the mid-1990s, after which it ceased to function as a generating power plant , and was transferred to the category of an experimental heating plant and became known as the Zuevskaya Experimental Thermal Power Plant - Zuevskaya CHPP (ZuETETs).

Zuevskaya ETEC

The reorganization of the Zuevskaya CHPP VTI into the Zuevskaya CHPP was not a technical solution, but a consequence of the general economic degradation that followed the collapse of the USSR . The scientific and technical base of the Zuevskaya TPP VTI, which remained at the station, was unclaimed for various reasons. State funding for the continuation of bench tests was not provided. All stands, with the exception of KSG, were dismantled for scrap . In 1997, funding for GHA related projects ceased. As a heat and power plant, ZuETETS was in a group of enterprises with extremely low technical and economic indicators ^[5] , at which the specific consumption of equivalent fuel is twice that of modern heat and power plants. On January 31, 2008, it was decided to close the ZuETETs. The significance of the station ^[6] was reduced to providing the old part of Zugres with warmth in winter. In the enterprise management building there is a museum of Zuevskaya state district power station. The main building of Zuevskaya state district power station has the status of a monument of industrial architecture ^[7]

At the beginning of 2014, the Zuevskaya experimental cogeneration plant was operating, and the PT-12 turbine with a capacity of 12 MW was in operation. The cogeneration plant supplies the city of Zugres with thermal energy during the heating season.

• I. Yakovlev, P.I. Tsybulko, N.S. Semeshko. V. Zuevskaya state district power station essays . Donbas, 1973

• Zuevskaya state district power station photo in the museum of Zuevskaya state district power station of Zugres
• Switching scheme of Zuevskaya state district power station
• The machine room of the Zuevskaya state district power station photo in the museum of the Zuevskaya state district power station of Zugres
• Coal feed of Zuevskaya state district power station photo in the museum of Zuevskaya state district power station of Zugres
• About Zuevskaya TPP on the website of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
• Necropolis of Ukrainian science. ZN.UA about Zuevskaya TPP on the eve and after the collapse of the USSR
• OUR VIBIR about ЗУЄТЄЦ see pages 64–67.
• ORDER of February 9, 2012 N 82 On approval of the charter of the State Enterprise “Zuevskaya Experimental Thermal Power Plant”

• Zuevskaya thermal power station (ZuGRES-2)